Timothy J. Patterson is a Cloud and Virtualization Systems Engineer, currently working at ProQuest out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Focused primarily on Amazon Web Services and VMware and technologies, Tim is currently in possession of the VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, and VCP5-DCV technical certifications from VMware, as well as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification from Amazon. [More...]
February 11, 2014
Speeding up LUN snapshot imports / resignaturing 0
by tjpatter • VMware • Tags: Advanced, Migration, Storage, VMware, vSphere
Background Information: This past weekend I was tasked with migrating 307 virtual machines off of old HP blades (AMD processors) onto new Cisco UCS blades (Intel processors). Since there is no supported way to live migrate these virtual machines from one environment into another, I had to perform this work during a scheduled maintenance window […]