Storage VMotion Made Easy

I have been working on a SAN migration for the better part of a month moving VMware virtual machines from a legacy fiber channel SAN to a new Dell Equallogic based iSCSI array. In the days before virtualization, migrating physical systems from one SAN to another was a time consuming and cumbersome process. First you had to connect the computer system in question to both SAN’s and then...

The Virtual VirtualCenter

In many VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 environments the VirtualCenter server is itself a virtual machine. The benefits of doing this are pretty plentiful including simplicity and the ability to take advantage of VMotion and DRS. Until recently, the only downside I ever encountered was the occasional inconvenience caused during a VI3 wide outage. In those cases were a problem is currently...