the Sky is the Limit
Monday is day one before the official start of VMworld. Ideal to get organized and to do some practice in the Hands-on-Labs (HOL).
Labs are well organized and the staff is very helpful. A staff member welcomes you at the entrance and leads you to your desk. They’ll assist you until you’ve successfully logged into your session. On Monday morning there is no rush yet and everything is calm. Continue reading “VMworld 2017 – Warm up part 2”
WMworld Europe 2017 hasn’t officially started yet, but Sunday afternoon the registration booth is already open and it’s a smart idea to collect your badge in this relaxed atmosphere before the Monday-rush.
It’s a lovely sunny day with mild temperatures.
Veeam Evangelist Michael White hat ein neues Whitepaper veröffentlicht zur Sicherung der vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) und des Platform Service Controllers (PSC). Zum Download ist eine Anmeldung mit dem Veeam Konto erforderlich.
VMware vSphere offers the ability to divide cluster resources into pools. There have been a lot of outstanding articles about resources. I want to emphasize especially the books written by Duncan Epping, Niels Hagoort and Frank Denneman.
Resource pools are a constant source of misconfiguration. Almost every cluster I see in the wild has some no-go’s configured. The most common reason is that RP are misunderstood as folders to organize VMs.
People keep thinking that if they leave all pools at “Normal” it wouldn’t be a problem. In fact it is a problem. Especially if the customer tried to organize his VMs into hierarchical structures, resource pools can become very complicated to track and might do nasty things in times of contention. Continue reading “Rebalance your Resource Pools”