Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Long Distance vMotion… heading to the vCloud
Posted by on June 30, 2009
VMware have an interesting proof of concept document posted online here, this is great progress for the platform and it can only be helped out by the close partnership with Cisco that has resulted in the NX1000V switch. I’m no networking expert but to my understanding there are issues with extending Layer 2 networks [...]
Biking for Geeks
Posted by on June 29, 2009
A slight diversion from the usual topics, over the last year I have been getting back into cycling after a long break. Mainly to regain my overall fitness but also as a social thing with our daughter who loves cycling. Whilst I enjoy cycling, like any geek I need an extra hook to keep [...]
vSphere ESXi as a VM – VMKernel Traffic Not Working
Posted by on June 12, 2009
In the lab I am currently working with I have a set of vSphere 4 ESXi installations running as a virtual machine and configured in an HA cluster – this is a great setup for testing VM patches, and general ops procedures or learning about VMware HA/DRS/FT etc. (this lab is running on a [...]
vSphere – How to Enable FT for a Nested VM
Posted by on June 7, 2009
As in my previous post; I am working on a lab with virtual ESX4 servers in it – I can vMotion VMs from a physical vSphere cluster into the virtual vSphere cluster perfectly and performance is very good (just 1 dropped ping in my testing) One of the physical hosts belongs to www.techhead.co.uk which [...]
