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When we upgraded to vSphere 4.1, there was nothing different about the way we expanded LUNs. We have three EqualLogic iSCSI SAN arrays for storage and two IBM BladeCenters. If we needed more space, the process was quite simple go to the web interface of the SAN and expanded the LUN using vCenter, click on a host […]
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We are running an environment with a single vCenter and 15 ESX hosts, of which 12 are in a DRS/HA cluster. When we had to do some maintenance on some of the hosts in the cluster, I moved a server into maintenance mode. Since we have DRS, the system attempted to automatically move all of […]
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By now you have read that VMware has released vSphere 4 with new capabilities and features. But did you know that they changed their licensing model? There are lots of changes to accept and for a lot of us, the cost just went up a notch. Surprise! At no time did VMware notify their users […]
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In setting up a Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) cluster, there are various reasons to want to separate or group client systems together. For example, you may have a set of systems that communicate constantly in processing information and therefore you want them to be on the same ESX host. On the other side, you may […]