VMFS is VMware’s File System and its used primarily with device that present themselves as block SCSI devices such as disks/LUN/Volumes that are attached to […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: iSCSI (Part 2 of 6)
Configuring iSCSI Storage Introduction iSCSI storage is another block-level protocol that present RAW LUNs/Volumes to the ESX host using combination of Ethernet/TCP-IP technologies. iSCSI communications […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: Fibre Channel (Part 1 of 6)
Introduction vSphere supports wide variety of storage configurations and optimisations. Virtual Machines can be stores on local, fibre-channel, iSCSI and NFS storage. There is all […]
ThinkPiece: Dependency Culture…
As former student of literature, I’ve always been into language (specifically the English one!) and the shifting tides of meanings, and linking that language brings […]
Microsoft Hyper-V R2eality – To P2V or not P2V, that is the question…
One of the more recent oddities from the Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V R2 (Chandler Aside: Can the product name get any longer?) release is Microsoft’s […]
An Empty Cluster for PowerCLI…
At the end of the last year, I asked on twitter if anyone used an empty VMware Cluster (without HA, DRS, DPM enabled) to aid […]
Virtual VMUG Event – 21st January (3pm-12pm GMT)
I might be wrong about this – but I think this is the VMUG first virtual meeting. Last year I did a couple of […]
Goodbye Colo…
Today was a bit of end of an era, as I finally cleared out my colocation. I’ve almost got rid of everything except some Dell […]
VMUG and Toastmasters
Last night I went to my first ever “Toastmasters” meeting near where I live in Derbyshire. I’d never heard of Toastmasters, until my colleague Gurusimran Khalsa mentioned […]