The Problem Let’s say you are very happy with your SAN. You just love the snapshots, the thin provisioning, deduplication, automatic storage tiering, replication, ODX and the SMI-S support. Live is good! But you have one annoying issue. For example; … Continue reading
I see and hear some people shrug at the idea of Shared Nothing Live Migration, dismissing it as marginally useful. Some do state they’ll have it as well but that it’s not that valuable. Well I disagree totally. A lot … Continue reading
The BSOD I helped hunt down this bug and tested the private fix. Some months ago, during the summer of 2011, I was putting some new Hyper-V clusters under stress tests. You know, letting it work very hard for a … Continue reading
Introduction You’ll find the following recommendations on line about optimizing Live Migrations: Use bigger pipes (10Gbps is better than 1Gbps) Enable Jumbo Frames Up the Receive Buffer to 8192 (Exchange 2010 virtualization recommendation for Live Migration) As we’ve been building … Continue reading