“With regards to the upgrade path for SPs looking to deploy vCD SP there will be a build released approx. Q1 15 that will allow upgrades from 5.5.2” On the 8th of October, VMware released the first vCloud Director build that was forked for the Service Provider Community. vCD for SP 5.6.3 (Build 2116763) represents […] Read More
In Vendors We Trust! Storage is God…
I tweeted recently that IT Professionals at some level must love pain…All through my working life I’ve dealt with outages and issues that cause myself and other around me significant amounts of agita and pain. The IT industry is unique in that we, as professionals must deal with issues that to a certain extent are caused […] Read More
ESXi 5.5: IOPS Limit and mClock scheduler
It’s fair to say that it’s not very often the difference between a 1 and 0 can have such a massive impact on performance…I had read a couple of posts from Duncan Epping in regards to a new DiskIO Schedular introduced in ESXi 5.5 and what it meant for VM Disk Limits compared to how […] Read More
ESXi 5.5 Update 2: vMotion Fails at 14% with Stale Admission Control and VM Reservations
We are currently in the process of upgrading all of our vCenter Clusters from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Update 2 and have come across a bug whereby the vMotion of VMs from the 5.1 hosts to the 5.5 hosts fails at 14% with the following error: [UPDATE 6/10] – Observed Conditions: vCenter 5.5 U1/2 (U2 […] Read More