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Monday, October 28, 2013

VMware vSphere: Script to change Default PSP to Round Robin

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Automated way how to set default PSP for particular SATP. vCLI example: esxcli --server myESXi --username user1 --password 'my...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

VMware VCDX by the numbers

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Brian Suhr had a great idea to summarise and publicly share available information about VMware top certificated experts knows as VCDX (VMwa...
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...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

DELL is able to build CDN (Content Delivery Network) for telco providers

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Are you surprised DELL is able to build CDN? Yes, that's true ... Dell, EdgeCast Shake Up Content Delivery Networks ... "Every s...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Out-of-band BIOS settings management

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Today I did some troubleshooting with customer. We needed to verify what NUMA type is set in server's BIOS. In the past I posted more i...
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 18, 2013

Open Manage Essentials Network Connection (tcp/udp ports)

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I was recently engaged to implement DELL Datacenter version of OME (Open Manage Essentials). DELL OME is quite easy and efficient tool for ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

DELL Force10 configuration for VMware VXLAN transportation

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Right now I work on vSphere Design where network virtualization is leveraged to simplify network management and provide segmentation of mul...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Default credentials and initial setup of VMware vSphere components

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vCenter Server Appliance Username: root Password: vmware vShield Manager Username:admin Password: default Initial setup: Log in t...

High latency on vSphere datastore backed by NFS

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Last week one of my customers experienced high latency on vSphere datastore backed by NFS mount. Generally, the usual root cause of high la...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere

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Very good blog post series introduction to storage performance troubleshooting in VMware vSphere infrastructures. Part 1 - The Basics P...
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...

What type of NIC teaming, loadbalancing and physical switch configuration to use for VMware's VXLAN?

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As a former CISCO UCS Architect I'm observing VXLAN initiative almost 2 years so I was looking forward to do the real customer projec...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Storage System Performance Analysis with Iometer

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Excellent write up about IOmeter usage is here .

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 ...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Using SSL certificates for VMware vSphere Components

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Streaming the certificate replacement and management process in a VMware environment can be challenging at times. For instance, changing ce...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 2.0

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OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 2.0 is new generation of DELL vCenter Management Plugin targeted as plugin for vSphere 5.5 Web Cl...
Monday, September 02, 2013

Configure Force10 S4810 for SNMP

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Enable SNMP in Force10 S4810 switches is straight forward. Bellow is configuration sample. conf ! Enable SNMP for read only access snmp-...

Configuring Dell EqualLogic management interface

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All credits go to Mike Poulson because he published this procedure back in 2011. [Source: http://www.mikepoulson.com/2011/06/configuring-d...