Month: January 2011

I have finished reading the VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive book written by Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) and Frank Denneman (@FrankDenneman) so it’s time for a little review. This book consists of more than 200 pages about the two most important key features of VMware vSphere: the VMware High Availability (HA) and the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). The first part of the book concentrates on the HA and gives you an excellent […]

I’ve been doing a lot of P2V’s for different customers lately and since most of the actions performed during the P2V procedure repeat themselves quite often, I’ve decided to create a quick reference guide for the P2V migrations. The steps described below are based on the Windows machines from different vendors. Let me know if you know any other steps that I should add to this list. Pre-P2V actions 1.  Create a P2V impact analysis […]