Tweet Memory Virtualisation Basics When an operating system is installed directly onto the physical hardware in a non-virtualised environment, the operating system has direct access to the memory installed in the system and simple memory requests, or pages always have a 1:1 mapping to the physical RAM, meaning that if 4GB of RAM is installed, [...]
Tweet This is part 3 of my guide, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here Availability High Availability (HA) New features with HA include heartbeat Datastores and support for IPv6. A heartbeat datastore is great because it helps to prevent situations where the management network drops out but the virtual machines continue running on the [...]
Tweet This is part 2 of my guide, you can read part 1 here Storage Quite a few improvements have been made to storage with vSphere 5. Storage Profiles Profile driven storage allows SLAs to be set to certain storage types, For example this together with Storage DRS (explained below) can be used to automatically [...]
Tweet vSphere 5 has been available for a couple of months now so now is an ideal time to look at upgrading your infrastructure and also to start the upgrade path for the VCP 4s out there to the VCP5. This is by no means a complete study guide, rather an introduction into the various [...]
