Edward L. Haletky graduated from Purdue University in 1988 with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. Since then, he has worked with programming graphics and other lower-level libraries on various UNIX platforms. Edward has recently left Hewlett-Packard, where he worked in the Virtualization, Linux, and High-Performance Technical Computing teams. He owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, and network consulting and development. Edward is very active on the VMware Discussion Forums providing answers to security and configuration questions. He is the author of VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers, published Dec 29, 2007 by Prentice Hall.
VMware HA with ESX v3.5 Update 3
During upgrades there are problems with VMware HA until all hosts in the cluster are at the same update.
Forensics and Dedupe
Disk deduplication (Dedupe) is a forensically untried solution to the need for more disk space within data centers. Untried does not mean unsound, but until the forensic science can catch up with the technology there may be issues.
VMware HA failed with error....
How to fix the cryptic VMware HA failed with error messages. This is a caustic error that actually has no real meaning other than to say VMware HA could not start, but not actually why!
SVMotion Usage and Trials
Storage VMotion is a great tool to use, so here is how to do it, and what to watch out about.
