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Showing posts with label esx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esx. Show all posts
Friday, March 09, 2018

How to check I/O device on VMware HCL

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VMware has Hardware Compatibility List of supported I/O devices is available here https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.ph...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX / ESXi

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ESXi performance are exposing to administrators through vSphere Clients. You can see real-time performance statistics which are collected ...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

How to convert thick zeroed virtual disk to thin and save storage space

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Last week I've been notified by my colleague about long term VMware vSphere issue described in VMware KB 2048016. The issue is that vS...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Difference between ESXi Shell time-outs

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ESXi Advanced Settings have two timeout parameters to manage ESXi Shell timeout: UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut  UserVars.ESXiShellInteractiv...
Friday, February 28, 2014

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring

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Do you think you fully understand VMware vSphere ESXi memory management? Compare your understanding with memory diagram at   VMware KB 201...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

DELL NPAR and VMware vSphere

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DELL NPAR is Network Partitioning of single 10Gb NIC or better to say 10Gb CNA (Converged Network Adapter). NPAR technology is implemented ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Deploying ESXi 5.x using the Scripted Install feature

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Unfortunately I had no chance to design and implement automated vSphere deployment for any customer. I tried several automated deployment p...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

VMware All Paths Down (aka APD)

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All Paths Down (APD), a feature of the VMware ESXi host used in cases where all paths to the VM go down because of storage failure or admin...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

VMware ESXi vim-cmd Command: A Quick Tutorial

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Very nice blog post on www.doublecloud.org ... Command lines are very important for system administrors when it comes to automation. Alt...
Friday, October 25, 2013

DELL EqualLogic valuable resources on the web

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I've got an email from one DELL EqualLogic expert and he has in the mail signature links to very valuable DELL EqualLogic web resources...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

iSCSI NetGear datastore issues

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Yesterday I had a phone call from my neighbor who work as vSphere admin for one local system integrator. He was in the middle of upgrade fr...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Two (2) or four (4) socket servers for vSphere infrastructure?

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Last week I had interesting discussion with customer subject matter experts and VMware PSO experts about using 2-socket versus 4-socket s...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

NFS or Fibre Channel Storage for VMware vSphere?

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Final decision depends what do you want to get from your storage. Check out my newly uploaded presentation on SlideShare:  http://www.slide...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Quick troubleshooting of ESX and 10Gb Broadcom NeXtreme II negotiated only to 1Gb

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I have just realized that my vmnic(s) in one DELL blade server M620 (let's call him BLADE1) is connected only at 1Gb speed even I have ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

ESXi Advanced Settings for NetApp NFS

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Here are NetApp  Net.TcpipHeapSize=30 Net.TcpipHeapMax=120 NFS.MaxVolumes=64 NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures=10 NFS.HeartbeatFrequency=12 NF...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

DELL EqualLogic general recommendations for VMware vSphere ESXi

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Bellow are eight major recommendations for DELL EqualLogic implementation with vSphere ESXi: Delayed ACK disabled LRO disabled I...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

ESX host remote syslog configuration

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For remote CLI you can use vMA or vCLI. Here is the example how to configure ESX host (10.10.1.71) to send logs remotely to syslog server l...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

How to change default path selection policy for particular storage array?

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Sometimes the firmware in storage array has some problems and you have to "downgrade" functionality to achieve operable system. ...