In spite of virtualization of servers, it's not seldom when I we can meet Microsoft Cluster (MSCS or WSFC) of Virtual Machines (VMs) running on VMware vSphere. This type of clustering is called guest clustering and recently I was thinking what are the reasons to migrate and design such clusters on vSphere. In my opinion, reasons are as… Read More »
Over the past few months, I have seen posts or been asked what happens when vCenter is down. Everybody probably knows that vCenter is a heart of VMware infrastructure installed as Appliance (VCSA) or Windows machine. The main vCenter features are as follows: Central management of VMware environments - allows you to manage VM's across multiple VMware hosts… Read More »
Some weeks ago I decided to use VMware vCenter Distributed Power Management (DPM) in the lab. In this post I will cover the following topics: vCenter Distributed Power Management (DPM) overview and requirements. How to configure DPM? Some advanced settings that I used in the lab 🙂 Distributed Power Management (DPM) overview DPM is a DRS "extension" that… Read More »
