Will's Virtual Pad

Here is an excellent article on VMware High Availability by Duncan Epping. http://www.yellow-bricks.com/vmware-high-availability-deepdiv/

There are several articles out there that compare Hyper-v to VMware but these comparisons need to be ever changing due to the many updates and upgrades being done on both sides. I have read plenty of articles on this topic and most have been good but it is quite annoying when you come across some that leave things out or spin the story in favor of one they support sell to their clients. I just want honest debate on...

When configuring VMware High Availability (HA), two major decisions will need to be made. Will I enable Admission Control? And which Isolation Response will I select? This chapter will explain both concepts in depth and make you aware of the caveats and the impact of your decisions. After reading this chapter you will be able to select the correct Isolation Response and Admission Control policy based on your...

Here is an excellent post from Roger Lund's Blog site.

Here is a good post from LucD's site. This post provides a script to automate the process of creating an alarm that will automatically vmotion guests to a different ESX host when a hardware failure is detected on an ESX host.

Designing and configuring vSwitches is something that can easily be overlooked but needs great attention due to the security and performance ramifications of poorly designed vSwitch deployments. Here is an excellent post by Ken Cline at Ken's Virtual Reality blog.

I sat through another VMware presentation about Virtualizing Microsoft applications and some of the best practices and solutions on those products. I thought I would share the presentation with you so I have provided a link to the presentation so you can download it. Below are the agenda items for the presentation. Agenda Performance Database Consolidation Scalability and Availability ESX Host Best...