Sunday, November 21, 2010

VCDX BrownBags

BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various VMware Certification topics. On this page you’ll find a sign-up for the live series, as well as links to past recordings.

http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/

Open Source VMFS Driver

This driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted with the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). VMFS is a clustered file system that is used by the VMware ESX hosts to store virtual machines and virtual disk files.


http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

Friday, November 05, 2010

NetApp multitenancy

NetApp’s MultiStore functionality allows storage partitioning for multiple tenants.

It supporst up to 130 vFiler instances (128 vFilers plus 2 vFiler0 instances) but only for NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, HTTP, and NDMP. Fibre Channel is not supported. You can only use Fibre Channel with vFiler0.

More info:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/04/08/3010-a-multistore-primer/