Phil Morris Need to know the difference between storage pool and RAID group? via EMC Community Network – ECN: Need to know the difference between storage pool and RAID group?. A great reply to a posted question – all show in a easy to read table.
Don’t forget folks to grab the excellent and free ebooks on VMware. See: http://t.co/zLNZjPw4L1
A very good article by Duncan Epping on his blog site hughlighting a common issue with the all the hype about SSD and flash been the utopia answer to Data Centre IO performance problems. Not what is all seams to be….. http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2013/06/03/evaluating-ssds-in-virtualized-datacenters-by-irfan-ahmad/
VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts.
Many thanks to the the excellent support from my new web host, transfer of this site was very smooth and pain free. Many thanks guys at Krystal http://www.krystal.co.uk
Vendor Swag In preparation for attending my first IT Event of 2013 – a new section/page has been created ready to post examples of Vendor Swag. Use the dedicated page http://www.virtuallycloudy.co.uk/vendorswag/ or for a limited time period the home page will show all posts from this category. The first IT Event is 2nd May 2013 – … Read more
A Excellent and hand IOPS calculator over on the site wmarow.com. It has a number of pre-defined drive type, but you can add your own drives specifications. wmarows iops calculator.
Very usefull and time saving script – found over on blog site VMPROS. Many Thanks. Get-Cluster “My Cluster” | Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name “vSwitch0″ | New-VirtualPortGroup -Name “MyPortGroupName” -VLanId 1234 via VMware: Add PortGroup to all hosts in cluster with PowerCLI | VMpros.
New Tool to automate the installation of custom certificates – another one for me to test on Monday! 🙂 This will be very handy with my previous post. Introducing the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 | VMware Support Insider – VMware Blogs.
Excellent blog/guide on to automate the certificates needed for vSphere 5.1 Note not tried myself yet – that Mondays Job! Will update post on my findings….. Powershell – Generate Microsoft CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.1 « DefinIT. Update (12/03/2013): Now used this script. Works very well. Unfortunately the vmware tool to automate the … Read more