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Comment on Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012 by Mostafa Khalil

Mostafa Khalil — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:14:35 +0000

Dhaval,
I replied to you via email directly.

Comment on Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012 by Mostafa Khalil

Mostafa Khalil — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:12:51 +0000

Harry,
The best practice is to have a dedicate storage network that is separate from the management VM networks.
Note that since iSCSI network is not routable in vSphere 5, the initiators and targets must be on the same subnet.
With that in mind, you don’t have to use the default vSwitch0 if you have enough uplinks to dedicate to the storage network.
Also keep in mind that you cannot combine NIC teaming with Port Binding for iSCSI Software Initiators.

Comment on Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012 by Dhaval

Dhaval — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:46:52 +0000

Session Information:

Hi Mostafa,

We are partners with VMware and I can confirm my information/identity via direct communication. I am looking for the content of the session in partner central and am not able to locate it. Can you help me with that?

Thanks,
Dhaval

Comment on Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012 by Harry

Harry — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:42:53 +0000

Hello Mostafa,

I recently Purchased Kindle Edition of your Storage.It is the best vsphere book available in the market.

I have a Question on IP Storage.
IP Storage Port Groups should be created on Default vswitch0 or should we create separate vswitch for IP Storage Port Groups.
Are there any best practices for IP Storage Networking.

Looking forwrad to your reply as well as Part 2 of the Storage book.

Regards
Harry

Comment on Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012 by Jansson

Jansson — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:57:08 +0000

I bought one @ VMworld Barcelona today! Looking good…

Comment on Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012 by Mostafa Khalil

Mostafa Khalil — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:30:44 +0000

Thanks Rick!
The e-book is available at:
http://www.pearsonitcertification.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321799933

Comment on Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012 by Rick

Rick — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:30:24 +0000

Hi, Mostafa

I am so happy to see your storage book available in the market very soon. Would like to know if there is a link to order the e-book?

Thank you.

BR,
Rick

Comment on Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012 by Mostafa Khalil

Mostafa Khalil — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:21:45 +0000

Sandro,
I replied to you directly via email. Please let me know when you get the files.

Regards,
Mostafa

Comment on Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012 by Sandro Carlos Pereira

Sandro Carlos Pereira — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:44:20 +0000

Hello Mostafa,
I was attending your Boot Camp session in Vegas and I have to say that it was wonderful session.
I’ve tried to get presentation and video session, but the link that I tried to you is requiring authentication. Can you help me to get those files?
Thank you.

Comment on vSphere 5.0 Update 1 introduces a tool to manually reclaim deleted blocks by Mostafa Khalil

Mostafa Khalil — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Sean,
Actually, it is “place the host in maintenance mode”
Somehow the post got truncated. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
More info in the KB that I published as well. I didn’t want to copy the full content of the KB.