vSphere Storage Applicance （VSA）is aimed at the SMB (Small and Mid-size Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a physical SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and as a result, these customers do not have shared storage. VSA Overview

vSphere Storage Applicance is aimed at the SMB (Small and Mid-size Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a physical SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and as a result, these customers do not have shared storage.

Boomerang is a neat and handy FREE tool that allows you to connect to virtual machines across mutliple ESXi hosts or vCenter servers in a single portal. http://labs.vmware.com/flings/boomerang

We had an issue last week that in our vSphere cluster (6 ESXi 5.0 hosts, 3 datastores), two hosts can not see one of the datastores. The issue was caused by that a guy in my team did not follow the proper LUN operation procedure. I tried to add the storage back in the vSphere … Continue reading Force Mounting VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.0 →

Just finished this morning’s VMware View 5 bootcamp, and I decide to write down my notes here before I forget. Today’s topic is about tuning the VMware View performance. There are three parts involved: Network environment tuning, VM Image tuning and PCoIP tuning. It is not necessary to tune them all, e.g. if you have … Continue reading VMware View 5 Performance Tuning →