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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Version and CPU Features

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I always thought that only device not virtualized by VMware ESXi is the CPU. It is generally true but I have just been informed by someone ...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

How to read BIOS settings from HP server

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Sometimes it is pretty handy how to read BIOS settings from modern HP server. Let's assume you have server ouf-of-band remote manageme...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

ESXi PSOD and HeartbeatPanicTimeout

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A Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) is a diagnostic screen with white type on a purple background that is displayed when the VMkernel of an ES...
Friday, July 15, 2016

DELL Force10 : DNS, Time and Syslog server configuration

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It is generally good practice to have time synchronized on all network devices and configure remote logging (syslog) to centralized syslog ...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

ESXi boot mode - UEFI or BIOS

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Legacy BIOS bootstrapping along with a master boot record (MBR) is uses with x86 compatible systems for ages. The concept of MBRs was publi...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Role and responsibility of IT Infrastructure Technical Architect

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In this article, I would like to describe the infrastructure architect role and his responsibility. Any architect generally leads the des...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Force10 Operating System 9.10 changes maximum MTU size

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Force10 operating system (aka FTOS, DNOS) always had the maximal configurable MTU size per port 12000 bytes. I have just been informed by f...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

ESXi : How to mask storage device causing some issues

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I have heard about the issue with ESXi 6 Update 2 and HP 3PAR storage where VVOLs are enabled. I have been told that the issue is caused by...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Storage DRS Design Considerations

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This blog post follows blog post " VMware vSphere SDRS - test plan of SDRS initial placement " and summarizes several facts havin...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

VMware vSphere SDRS - test plan of SDRS initial placement

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VMware vSphere Storage DRS (aka SDRS) stands for Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler. It continuously balances storage space usage and s...

ESXi 6 - manual partitioning for multiple VMFS filesystems on single disk device

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I have to test SDRS initial placement exact behavior (blog post here ) therefore I need multiple VMFS datastores to form an Datastore Clust...
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Sunday, May 08, 2016

How to manage VCSA services via CLI

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance (aka VCSA) is composed from several services. These services are  manageable through Web Client but in case...
Friday, April 29, 2016

NSX Edge Services Gateway Form Factors

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NSX ESGs are automatically deployed from NSX Manager and are available in following form factors: Compact 1 vCPU 512 MB RAM 4,5 GB vD...
Friday, April 22, 2016

VMware Tools 10.0.8 is now GA

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VMware Tools 10.0.8  is now GA and live on www.vmware.com and available to all Customers. Resolved Issues Virtual machine performance is...