For those of you who still haven't gone down the path of evaluating or purchasing VMware's VI3 High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) or even if you haven't driven past someone using it and honked your horn just to say hello, you might want to check out the latest listing of video clips from Dell's TechCenter. Back in March, I wrote about Dell's video demonstration of VMware's VMotion cap For those of you who still haven’t gone down the path of evaluating or purchasing VMware’s VI3 High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) or even if you haven’t driven past someone using it and honked your horn just to say hello, you might want to check out the latest listing of video clips from Dell’s TechCenter.Back in March, I wrote about Dell’s video demonstration of VMware’s VMotion capabilities. My only complaint was that they didn’t add any audio to go along with the video. Well, Scott Hanson took my “hint hint” remark to heart and not only retrofitted the VMotion video with audio, but now he brings us a whole new series of videos (yes, with audio) covering HA and DRS.If you haven’t seen these technologies in action yet, I invite you to watch these video clips. VMware HA/DRS Demonstration of Planned Maintenance – 2:38 This demo shows the ability of VMware DRS to easily migrate VMs off ESX Hosts in need of planned maintenance. Planned maintenance such as firmware and BIOS updates can then be performed with little impact to the users on those VMs. VMware HA Demonstration of an Unplanned Outage – 2:08 This demo shows what happens when the Virtual Infrastructure is presented with an ESX Host failure. A Dell PowerEdge blade is physically removed from the chassis, and the resulting failure and recovery of the VMs is seen in the demo. VMware DRS Demonstration of Dynamic VM Migration with Spikes in Workload – 3:58 Using the DVD Store Application, workload is generated on a VMware DRS cluster to create an unbalanced environment. DRS recognizes this unbalance and migrates the VM using Vmotion to another ESX Host in the cluster that has free resources. Scott has also added a PDF White Paper to go along with the video demonstration – VMware HA/DRS Solution Scenarios on Dell PowerEdge Servers.Thanks for notifying me about the updates Scott, and thank you for creating these helpful video demonstrations. And I’m going to be on the lookout for Dell’s blade teleportation feature, keep me posted! Software Development