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Architecture (Infrastructure) design
Architecture (Infrastructure) design
- Role and responsibility of IT Infrastructure Technical Architect
- CPU capacity planning and sizing
- Logical design - storage performance sizing
Photon OS and Docker
VMware vSAN
- vSAN : Capacity planning - Number of required ESXi hosts
- vSAN : Capacity planning - Understanding vSAN memory consumption in ESXi
- vSAN : Capacity planning - vSAN Capacity and Performance Sizer
- vSAN : Encryption and Core Dumps
- vSAN : How to configure Jumbo Frames not only for vSAN
- vSAN : Logical design and SSD versus NVMe considerations
- vSAN : Understanding vSAN Architecture Components
VMware SSO Domain
- VMware SSO domain design and operational management
- VMware vSphere 6.0 PSC and SSO Domain useful resources
VMware NSX
- Back to the basics - VMware vSphere networking
- VMware DVS - change default policy
- VMware vSphere DVS LACP timers
- End to End QoS solution for VMware vSphere with NSX on top of Cisco UCS (DVS QoS Marking - 802.1p, DSCP)
- vSphere Switch Independent Teaming or LACP?
VMware VM hardware and CPU Features
VMware vSphere and Storage Queueing
- Qlogic HBA adapter Queue depth in windows 2008 r2
- High latency on vSphere datastore backed by NFS
- Disk queue depth in an ESXi environment
- How to get more IOPS from a single VM?
VMware vSphere and Storage
VMware vSphere Storage Intelligent Operations during storage issues
VMware Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)
VMware vSphere Advanced Parameters
UNDOCUMENTED vSphere Advanced Options
- enable_action_OnRetryErrors - David Pasek : No Storage, No vSphere, No Datacenter
- /Misc/EnablePSPLatencyPolicy - David Pasek : New with vSphere 6.7 U1 - Enhanced Load Balancing Path Selection Policy
- /Scsi/ExtendAPDCondition (APD when LUN returns SCSI NOT READY) - Dusan Tekeljak : ESXi 6.7 U1 fixes: APD and VMCP is not triggered even when no paths can service I/Os
- Storage DRS Design Considerations
- VMware vSphere SDRS - test plan of SDRS initial placement
- VMware vSphere SDRS VM provisioning process
- Storage DRS integration with storage profiles
- SDRS Initial Placement - interim storage lease between recommendation and provisioning
- Undocumented SDRS Advanced Options
VMware vSphere Driver & Firmware Management
- ESXi Network Troubleshooting (NIC Adapters Information)
- Undocumented SDRS Advanced Options
- Undocumented HA Advanced Option - das.restartVmsWithoutResourceChecks
- Virtual Machine Advanced Configuration Options
- How to install VMware tools on FreeBSD server
- PowerCLI script to report VMtools version(s)
- VMware Tools 10 and "shared productLocker"
- VMware Tools Community Module Introduction
VMware and CPU Feature Sets (CPU Instructions)
- VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Version and CPU Features
- How to disable Spectre and Meltdown mitigations? (CPU Capabilities IBRS, IBPB, STIBP)
- VMware Response to Speculative Execution security issues, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 (aka Spectre and Meltdown) (CPU Capabilities IBRS, IBPB, STIBP)
- Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) in VMware VM
DELL Force10
- Part 1 - Series Introduction
- Part 2 - Initial switch configuration and Firmware Upgrade
- Part 3 - Interface Configuration and VLANs
- Part 4 - Spanning Tree BPDU Guard vs BPDU Filtering
- Part 5 - VLT - Virtual Link Trunking
- Part 6 - mVLT – Ethernet Loop Free Topology between two VLT domains
- Part 7 - DCB configuration
- Part 8 - Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
- Part 9 - DNS, Time and Syslog server configuration
- Appendix A - Recovering from a Forgotten Password on the Force10 S series switch
- Appendix B - Force10 VLT - Design Verification Test Plan
- Appendix C- Force10 switch and NIC Teaming
- Appendix D - Resetting DELL Force10 to factory defaults
- Appendix E - Force10 Link Dampening
- Appendix F - Force10 VTL and vSphere Networking
- Appendix G - Force10 Operating System 9.10 changes maximum MTU size
- Appendix H - Dell VLT reference architecture v2.0
iSCSI
- iSCSI and Ethernet
- iSCSI Best Practices
- iSCSI Best Practices - 2020 review
- Force10 switch port iSCSI configuration
- DELL Force10 : iSCSI DCB configuration
- DELL Force10 : DCB configuration - design decision justification and configuration
- Unified Network, DCB and iSCSI challenges
- iSCSI on FreeBSD
Data Center Bridging
FreeBSD
- How to install VMware tools on FreeBSD server
- FreeBSD running from read-only compact flash disk and accessible over serial console (COM1)
- FreeBSD with multiple Serial Adapters acting as Access Console Server
- GSM/GPRS Modem Siemens ES75 - useful AT commands
- PRTG alerts phone call notifications
- How to create FreeBSD memstick in running FreeBSD system
- SNMP Trap Receiver on FreeBSD
- PPTP VPN in FreeBSD
- iSCSI on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD and multiple gateways
- Internet FailOver script for FreeBSD written in Perl
2 comments:
This is gold, we are running Force10 in our environment, Thanks for putting it together!
These things help me a lot. I am also practicing FTOS10,thanks.
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