All posts in category Design

Datacenters vs Clusters within the vCenter Inventory

Recently I got involved in a discussion about “Creating multiple Datacenters with one Clusters rather than one Datacenter with multiple Clusters” First of all lets get the definitions of these objects summarized (as stated in the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide) Clusters A collection of ESX/ESXi hosts and associated virtual machines intended to work together as […]

VM Swapfile (.vswp) placement with SRM

Nowadays VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) gets implemented more and more and like vSphere, VMware SRM needs a good architectural design before starting off. One of the design considerations is around the placement of the Virtual Machine Swap File (.vswp) which I want to give some more information about in this article. Let’s first take […]