cluster – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

Hersey May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 0 Comments cluster, power, shutdown, VSAN

VSAN Cluster Shutdown/Startup

Last day of VSAN Training. Learning about some day 2 operations stuff this morning. Went through the high level overview of the process for properly powering down, and powering back up, a VSAN cluster. I am sure I am going to have a customer ask me about this eventually so just putting it here so I remember it.

SimpliVity vHersey VMware

Hersey March 8, 2017 0 Comments cluster, Microsoft, server, SimpliVity, White Paper

Microsoft Failover Cluster in a Box on SimpliVity

This is a White Paper I worked with SimpliVity Product Management on to provide details on how to implement and operate a Windows Failover Cluster on SimpliVity OmniStack systems. It also details how availability is provided across different failure scenarios

vHersey VMware

Hersey August 19, 2011May 22, 2019 1 Comment cluster, dpm, DRS, power, vcenter

Set Up DPM and Use vCenter Scheduled Task to Turn DPM Off and On

VMware Power Management or Distributed Power Management (DPM) powers down hosts when resources are not needed and powers the host