AutoPager is a Firefox extension which follows the “Next” links on lots of pages and loads them inline. If you’re already using the extension, go to AutoPager -> Update Setting -> Update Setting Online. The authors just added VMTN forums and NetApp Technology Network to their supported sites. This means if you’re reading a long thread you don’t have to click next. You can just keep scrolling – the next page is loaded inline....
In our organization, the storage administrator is completely separate from the VI Administrator. This process requires some coordination with the storage administrator. Here is our process for restoring a VM from our SAN snapshots. A lot of this information was gleamed from Scott Lowe’s posts on FlexClones. Unfortunately, we do not have SMVI (the jaw dropping video demo is here) at this moment. It appears NetApp has made this process trivial with that application....
We had some storage issues. We still have some storage issues, but it’s getting better. Here’s what we’ve fixed: Overbooked storage Storage Switch Failure Tolerance Adapter Failure Tolerance Overbooked Storage Units The most immediate issue that could be addressed was the storage bloat. This did not require additional hardware. Previously, our storage allocated for VMware was as follows: VMFSLun1 (600 GB) VMFSLun2 (900 GB) All 30 virtual machines the university ran (46 individual virtual hard disks) were running on two LUNs....
One of the things I have to do as a Virtual Infrastructure Administrator is evangelize value added with virtual machines. What are my stakeholders going to get out of this? Where’s the value added? Why should we use a virtual machines instead of physical machines? Here’s my explanation of some advantages and value added using VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 from a system deployment standpoint. This post will show a “before and after” view of system deployment....