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Seen these today and thought I would share them. Very funny and very well done to the EMC vSpecialist guys, brilliant 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhRpxDXjZA=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eh3VV4hL8s=player_embedded

For anyone attending Partner Exchange 2011 I will be presenting a session at PEX 2011 titled “Private vCloud Architecture Technical Deep dive”. If anyone is interested in attending, the session ID is #1380. Session Abstract Enterprises globally are enthusiastically embracing Cloud Computing as both a way of reducing costs and improving the quality of service IT provides to its end customers. To achieve this, enterprises are looking to VMware and its partners to help them deploy VMware vCloud Director-based Private Cloud environments. For a VMware vCloud Director-based Private Cloud to be successful and operationally sustainable, an absolutely critical first step is developing a solid vCloud architecture. This session will help partners address this critical first step by exploring the proven, practical activities and considerations VMware has defined, based on experience, for developing a vCloud architecture. A participant in this session will leave with a deep technical understanding of the guiding […]

I have seen a few people asking questions lately on how you can set the default Path Selection Policy to Round Robin rather than the default Fixed, and thought it might be useful for people out in the field or people wanting to set company standard policies.  Unfortunately there is now way to set this through the GUI. You will need to either access the console via Tech Support Mode, or by Remote Tech Support Mode (SSH) to carry out this command. esxcli nmp satp setdefaultpsp –psp VMW_PSP_RR –satp VMW_SATP_SYMM

A few people have been asking what Ephemeral ports are and what is there purpose. This is a quick overview. So what is an Ephemeral port? An Ephemeral Port stops the binding of a dvPort. This resembles the same behaviour in the standard vSwitch. This can be used when port history is not required or relevant.  You can see on the screen shot below the three types of Port Binding available on a dvSwitch port group. The three types of port binding available: Static Binding (Default): means that the dvPort will be assigned to the VM at configuration time. Once all the ports are “booked” by VMs, it will not be possible to connect another VM, even if the connected VMs are powered up or not. Dynamic Binding: means that the dvPort will be assigned at the moment of VM power-up. This option allows for over committing the number of […]