Some nice Labs

LAB 4 - Failover

In this lab we tested fault tolerant on a VM with no down time, is setup in a cluster which is the boundary. If the cluster fails fault tolerant will also fail.

We tested also a failover on vCenter if the disaster hits the fan, vCenter Heartbeat can solve the problem. With heartbeat you build a vCenter and SQL cluster which is active/passive. Especially interesting is to user heartbeat when you use stretch clustering.

And lastly we test backup software from VMware which is simple and easy to use, perhaps not have all the function that the big backup software has but for smaller/mid company’s it good enough. Its use the snapshot function so you can user incremental and you can ship the data to NFS store like a Datadomain backup disk device unit.

LAB 5 - SRM

Interesting product, what is nice in the new version is that you can run all the tests, failover and failback which are great. You have the replication functionality or you use the storage replication software. Also get a clear view if the VM is protected or not again a disaster.

Another interesting topic is DA versus DR.

DA: Disaster avoidance for VMware is stretch clustering

DR: Disaster Recovery for VMware is SRM.

LAB 22 - VMware View

Great product, easy to user for the user and VMware has built a complete concept around this.

In this lab we had a look at the broke, composer, view manager and the security gateway.

The security gateway was a nice setup with no AD connection and striped down Windows server.

And you can now run View on most of the device out there.

Lab 9 - Performance troubleshooting

In this lab we look at some of the most commonly user troubleshooting scenarios and one of the cool thing was the storage DRS to spread the datastore load and the IOPS setting on the VM disks.