http://www.vmworld.com/blogs A syndication feed of all the blogs on this system 2009-07-14T18:53:29Z http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/2009/07/14/join-the-vsphere-storage-virtual-appliance-blog <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:0052f982-2353-4ca7-a90f-e6c068df7b6e] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>Storage Virtual Appliance (SVA) is proud to announce the new SVA Forum allowing both the curious and knowledged VMware user to express thoughts, opinions and converse with other users.. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.stoagevirtualappliance.com/">StorageVirtualAppliance.com</a> is dedicated to the evangelization and education of SVAs for vSphere users. A Storage Virtual Appliance allows VMware users to leverage the internal resources of their vSphere environments to give them advanced server virtualization.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Join the forum today! We want to hear from you and value your opinions.. It's FREE and takes SECONDS to register. Here's the link.. (<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.storagevirtualappliance.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ajhb4vk0vhu6rt0266k7rsts10;www">http://www.storagevirtualappliance.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ajhb4vk0vhu6rt0266k7rsts10;www</a>)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:0052f982-2353-4ca7-a90f-e6c068df7b6e] --> 2009-07-14T18:53:29Z http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/comment/join-the-vsphere-storage-virtual-appliance-blog http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1635 http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/2009/05/08/high-availability-for-esx <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:f99a25ed-112a-4e50-a158-3eaf5b188d7b] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>In many cases virtual servers are implemented as part of a server consolidation strategy. As a result creating a highly available environment is critical to the survival of any organization, no one can afford to be down with so many applications dependent on the server. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Virtual environments are susceptible to server failure with loss of access to applications and data. For example, each time a virtual server is moved to a different machine<del>such would be the case in a disaster recovery scenario</del>the connection would have to be interrupted and reconnected to the new hardware. VMotion is a fantastic tool to ensure that the applications move transparently, but what about the datastore? </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><h5><span>Storage Virtual Appliances can be mirrored, presenting a single datastore that manages two copies of the data-one on each ESX server-that allows seamless failover. This is achieved using synchronous mirroring. For more on Storage Virtual Appliances and High Availability, visit </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.storagevirtualappliance.com/ha.html">http://www.storagevirtualappliance.com/ha.html</a></h5><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> &nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> &nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:f99a25ed-112a-4e50-a158-3eaf5b188d7b] --> 2009-05-08T15:39:26Z http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/comment/high-availability-for-esx http://www.vmworld.com/people/SVA/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1518