On Wednesday I attended the VMFS3 session entitled “VMware vStorage VMFS-3: Architectural Advances since ESX 3.0”. It was a very interesting little session discussing some of the under-the-covers work through the evolution of VMFS3. However, why am I blogging about it now? Well one thing jumped out at me during the presentation. The speaker (I […]
Dudley Smith has made a small update to his Firewall poster, “port 443 is needed for ESX server-to-server migration and provisioning traffic.” Grab the updated version here. Thanks Dudley.
While attending the HA: Internals and Best Practices session (BC3197) on Tuesday afternoon, I learned something new about HA’s VM health monitoring. With a cluster’s HA, you can set it to monitor the health of your VMs and have them automatically restart if it detects an OS hang-up. To do this it uses a heartbeat […]
Here’s a couple of little snippets from the FT – Overview and Best Practice session (BC2961). Most of the material covered, I’ve seen before in the recently released FT whitepaper. However here’s the extra bits in noticed that was new to me: When enabling FT on a VM in a DRS cluster, vCenter sets the […]