Not many people know that spindle consolidation in storage devices can actually increase performance without any additional cost. In this article, I’ll show you how you can improve virtual storage performance for better storage utilization and lower cost
VMware HA High Availability (HA) is a common pattern in datacenter and application design for important workloads. Early in my time at VMware, we invested in a major initiative to bring HA within reach of all data centers running vSphere.
Recently, I came across a great video of a talk by Keith Adams, a colleague of mine at VMware. The talk is entitled “They make computers out of software, now”. In addition to a great introduction to system virtualization, Keith talks about VProbes which many see as an important building block of the future computing platforms. Well worth your time.