Friday, November 23, 2012

Migrating virtual machines with Raw Device Mappings (RDMs)

A presentation on migrating virtual machines with RDMs FAQ.

Areas that are covers are;
  • Warm migration (vMotion), where the virtual machine state as powered on.
  • Cold migration, where the virtual machine state as powered off.
  • Storage migration (Storage vMotion), where the virtual machine state as powered on.



Knowledge Base Article
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005241

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

vSphere client - Which one to use?


Administrating your vSphere 5.x environment can now be done via a Web Client. So now the question is asked when to use what? As some features can only  be administered via vSphere Web Client.

 The table below details features available in Web Client and Desktop Client and if a feature is not listed then the feature is available in both.

Information from vSphere Blog.
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/11/which-vsphere-client-should-i-use-and-when.html