Re: simple question about networking best practice - traffic separation for...
For iSCSI or NFS storage, would you create another vSwitch2, with it's own NICs to be used primarily for the storage network?If at all possible, I always do this. Isolation is a good thing for storage...
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 Web Client – where is Update Manager?
This is actually expected behaviour. You are running a pre Update 1 Build of vCenter 5.1 which does not include a plugin for the Webclient for Update Manager. This was introduced in the Update 1 Build...
View Article100's of "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" USB Warning messages per hour
We get hundreds of these messages per hour to syslog - vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 maps to the USB on our Dell 6x0's,7x0's and 9x0's running 5.0 -> 5.1 U1 WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237:NMP...
View ArticleRe: Consolidating BladeCenter blades to ONE x3755 (7163)
I can afford a little bit of down time, not too much. My plan was to have a second smaller IBM server handy for redundancy but it really all comes down to cooling and power. This particular setup is...
View ArticleRe: NVidia GPU not working for sVGA
did you configure passthough for that video card under vsphere > configuration > advanced settings?
View ArticleRe: vMotion from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 U1 stalls at 65% but eventually completes
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View ArticleFusion 5.0.3 - Missing vmdk file
Today morning my fusion client was working perfectly, but after lunch i get back to my office and i find it turned off. So i restarted it but it get me this message: "Document not found: Disco...
View Articlevmware windows templates and windows updates
I want to find out wht everyone else is doing regarding updating therir vmware windows templates. Are you converting your template every so often back to a vm and running windows updates on it and...
View ArticleRe: improving iSCSI performance: Delayed ACK, IOs per path, Large Receive...
That's still making me laugh now, if you want me to quote your blog to you again let me know! Good thing you didn't disagree with yourself and say: who's the fool that wrote that, should be shot!
View ArticleRe: Consolidating BladeCenter blades to ONE x3755 (7163)
Right, yes, indeed, I would test for sure.I was thinking that maybe someone else had done something almost exactly as what I'm looking for so was hoping for the pluses and minuses.In the end, moving...
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Mark,One more thing from my VMware support experience that I did think was a good piece of advice given. One of my shared folders that I was pointing to was a Dropbox folder. The support technician...
View ArticleRe: vMotion from ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 U1 stalls at 65% but eventually completes
use esxtop to determine the world id of your VMs that have failed and grep your /var/log/vmkernel.log on source and destination host. This shall give you relevant event information about what went...
View ArticleRe: Everytime AV Server Push Out Updates, VMs Network Connectivity Gets Spotty
I have my storage system tiered between a high capacity/low speed tier and a low capacity/high speed tier. Most of my servers (File servers, app servers, etc) are on the slow storage. That may be the...
View ArticleRe: vmware windows templates and windows updates
Nothing exciting here - just convert them and manually update them. I like to go through the Event Viewer and look things over after patches, so this approach suits me.
View ArticleListing the virtual center for a given host
Ok, I am sure I am missing something very easy here so I will throw it out and see if any one can help. I am trying to do a report on my hosts listing number of processor sockets, cores, virtual...
View ArticleRe: vc 5.1 thin migrate uses thick!
what happens if you choose "thick" during svmotion independently what the original format was?
View ArticleRe: Admission Control Using Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved Policy
My experience was you have to put some reservation to the VMs when you want use the percentage model. It's correct that the cluster reserve some resources for a failover scenario but the commitment...
View ArticleRe: VMware Fusion / Windows 8 / Shared Folders / System Hang
Thanks tony I turned off folder sharing altogether. I work in Windows most of time and don;t really need to exchange files. I can use net shares if I do Regards Mark
View ArticleRe: simple question about networking best practice - traffic separation for...
Thanks for the confirmation. I quite often do not see this called out - in those cases, through which network would people be routing it - VMnetwork?
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