Virtualization is everywhere, but IT organizations are still looking for ways to cut costs. One way to do that, is to… virtualize even more applications! However, the easy stuff has been done. File an...
Disasters happen. In fact, according to the Munchener Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Geo Risks Research, 355 events, from floods to tornados to tsunamis and earthquakes occurred in 2011. IT organizat...
I have been working for Symantec for more years than I care to remember. I joined through the Veritas acquisition some 6 years ago. In that time the datacenter has changed incredibly, before joining V...
Are you setting up Veritas Cluster Server in VMware vSphere? Below is a technical guide to walk you through the process such as configuring Veritas Cluster Server clusters across ESX hosts and the com...
Environment Two ESXi Servers = Esxi1 and Esxi2 version of Esxi Servers = 5.0 Vcenter OS = Windows2008R2(64bit) SAN = iscsi SAN attached on both Esxi Servers HA and DRS = enabled Application HA = 5.1 S...
VMworld 2012 is around the corner - August 26-30th, 2012 (US) && October 9-11th (EMEA). What do you want to see, hear, & learn at #VMworld 2012? Call for Papers Voting is open! Vote for your favourite...
A funny thing happened the other day when I went to one of my favorite sites to look up a word...I saw the above message, but looking at the redirect URL, it says "failover-namechangedtoprotecttheinno...
I've been blogging over the past couple of weeks under the theme "Everything you think you know about clustering is wrong". It's sort of a tongue-in-cheek theme, but the misconceptions I was trying to...
IT organizations have embraced virtualization as a way to cut costs and make their data centers more agile to respond to business needs. However, application visibility inside VMware HA is nascent and...
In my last post I mentioned a few common misconceptions about HA clustering that I'd be debunking; namely that it's unreliable, complex, and expensive. There are others that we'll get to in later post...
