Note: This is a post written by Pancil. Pancil normally sits quietly in a dark corner of the blog sanity/spell checking my posts. He is also a Sr. Virtualizaiton Engineer at Rackspace, where he and I work side by side, making the "Private Cloud" Awesome.
So, while reading another blog Cody suggested that the ideas [...]
Using extents gives you flexibility with your volumes and adding extents is a very simple and usually painless process. The ability to dynamically increase your total storage for a single VMFS volume is a feature we all love, but how many of us actually use it? Is it worth the risk?
Are you running extents for [...]
Many of you will say “RAID 5, of course!” and for those of you that do I would like to ask why? Is it because you really understand the differences between the different RAID levels? Granted that you may but have you ever had to do a RAID rebuild of a RAID 5 volume? How [...]
This is a tool that I created a while back to assist in sizing needed disk space in a deployment. Straight forward to use, the totals are calculated as follows: VMDK Size + Ram Size * 1.1 + 12Gb = Total Needed. While the VMDK may be obvious, the others are just as important. Ram [...]
Until reading this at vinternals, I wasn’t even sure what HA Slot Size’s were. Now I’ve got some homework to do. In the meantime, read here about how their calculated.
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