Category Archives: HA/DRS

VSphere HA Clustering – best practices – nice and simple does it :)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Must say from day 1 with working with VMware have been a big fan of the clustering technology that comes with vSphere/vCenter, in comparison to the even the likes of MSCS its a sinch’ – suppose the one thing i … Continue reading →

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VMotion and it’s port

Posted on April 26, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Interestingly in all the years using VMware’s products i’ve never come across the following error: Migration [-1408237366:1279683851917265] failed to connect to remote host : Connection refused Quick google and voila http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1030264 What happened? Port 8000 need to be opened – … Continue reading →

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Mixed versions of ESXi in a HA/DRS cluster and what to watch for

Posted on April 21, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Recently had to tackle this issue. Is a nice,precise article that covers some of the pitfalls well. http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/10/mixing-esxesxi-versions-in-an-hadrs-cluster.html

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