Author: Mostafa Khalil

Publications

Storage Implementation in vSphere 5 book ships August 28, 2012

Finally my book titled “Storage Impelementation in vSphere 5.0” went to print and will be available by VMworld 2012 SFO. I will have books sigining events there. The book is available for pre-order at: Pearson/VMware Press Amazon Safari    

Mostafa Khalil 
VAAI

vSphere 5.0 Update 1 introduces a tool to manually reclaim deleted blocks

With today’s release of VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 1, included is an update to vmkfstools that enables administrators to manually reclaim deleted blocks on thin provisioned LUNs on VAAI capable storage arrays. The new flag added to vmkfstools is “-y” and takes the percentage of the deleted blocks to reclaim as an argument. You need to cd […]

Mostafa Khalil 
Events Storage General

Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012

I will deliver vSphere 5 Storage Boot Camp at Partner Exchange 2012 in Las Vegas on Sunday February 12, 2012. The session is free to Partner Exchange 2012 attendees and will be 4 hours long starting at 8:30am Here is the session details: VMware vSphere 5 – Storage Troubleshooting Learn basic to advanced levels of […]

Mostafa Khalil 
Storage General

Dell EQL Multipathing Extension Module for vSphere 5 Installation and User Guide

Dell has completed the certification of EQL Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) version 1.0.9 with vSphere 5.0 earlier this month. I attached the installation and user guide here (Dell-110-6093-EN_MEM_Guide_50) I will have a chapter in my book dedicated to 3rd party multipathing plugins which includes this plugin.

Mostafa Khalil 
Events Storage General

VMworld 2011 Copenhagen

I will be presenting the following session at VMworld 2011 in Copenhagen: VSP2376 “Performance and Scalability Enhancements in VMware vStorage VMFS 5” Scheduled for Thursday October 20 at 14:00 Additional sessions by my colleagues are listed at Yellow Bricks blog by Duncan Epping  

Mostafa Khalil 
Storage General

Welcome to vSphere Storage blog!

Welcome to vSphere Storage blog! Content of this blog does not represent official VMware content or contributions. Please keep your comments/contributions clean and professional. Thank you in advance for your contributions. –Mostafa

Mostafa Khalil 
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