Everyone knows the situation in where a (s)VMotion asks you to select a Resource Pool. I would love to see that VMware automatically selects the current VM’s Resource Pool but unfortunately we have to make a selection since it defaults to the cluster. When we leave it to default it obviously causes the VM to [...]
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How to quickly discover a "VM to Resource Pool" mapping
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on January 29, 2010
http://virtualkenneth.com/2010/01/29/how-to-quickly-discover-a-vm-to-resource-pool-mapping/
VMotion and Exchange 2010, not supported
Just a short blog post about Microsoft Exchange 2010 in combination with VMware vMotion. We are running this combination hosted on vSphere platform and noticed that whenever we vMotion over a Exchange 2010 Mailbox server that is using DAG (Database Availability Group’s), the DAG will fail. 25-05-2011 Update for Exchange 2010 SP1: Thanks to Toti [...]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 20, 2009
http://virtualkenneth.com/2009/11/20/vmotion-and-exchange-2010/
VMware VMotion, how fast can we go?
Lately while I was testing out specific failover behaviors in vSphere, I accidently discovered that VMotion Speeds (MB/s) are logged in the the /var/log/vmkernel, now that’s cool! Issue the command tail -f /var/log/vmkernel and than initiate a VMotion. You should get info like this: Host VMotionning to (receiving) Nov 7 21:13:14 xxxxxxxx vmkernel: 10:06:06:18.104 cpu3:9131)VMotionRecv: 226: 1257624621919023 [...]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 9, 2009
http://virtualkenneth.com/2009/11/09/vmotion-speed-how-fast-can-we-go/
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