Part 3 – ESX server configuration In my last article I was explaining how and why setup Starwind High Availability feature to protect you virtual infrastructure data from materiel failure. The article series would not have sense if I would not explain how to connect the iSCSI Target created to my VMware vSphere 4 installation. […]
Surebackup – what? New upcoming product from VEEAM
This is a special report post. Yes, the tweets and blog posts had been just raining the last couple of hours and days. I’m putting my thoughts and wishes too… 😎 . There will be a very new update announced from VEEAM. Or maybe a totally new product? At the moment nobody knows. The only […]
Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools
Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]
See a list of Storage Array Type Plugins on ESX Server
Configuring ALUA – Asymetric Logical Unit Access I was configufing a mutlipath for a Eternus DX 60 storage SAN and there is a section there on configuring ALUA. (Asymetric Logical Unit Access). Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) is a standard-based method for discovering and managing multiple paths to a SCSI LUN. It is described in […]
New whitepaper released on PVSCSI
New test of PVSCSI adapter compared to LSI Logic SAS. Few weeks back I pointed out a VMware KB article surrounding a question when to use PVSCSI. If it’s good idea or not using it for VMs with lower load or not. The article was burried here in the quantity of posts since… Today I […]
Enable Jumbo Frames in ESXi 4
To enable jumbo frames. Since Jumbo Frames are not enabled by default. It can’t since when you install ESXi 4, by default there is only one vSwitch and console and then you only start to build your network configuration. And you will not want to enable jumbo frames for ALL your networks and switches neither. […]
How-to troubleshoot iSCSI connection to your SAN
When you can’t see your LUN… There is several ways to troubleshoot an iSCSI connections. First of all, you should make sure that you can ping your iscsi network interface of your SAN. For this you can use command ping or you can use command vmkping. For example you type: vmkping 192.168.5.10 where this IP […]
Starwind with ISCSI SAN Software can do High Availability for you…
High availability feature tested from Starwind ISCSI SAN Software. This is a follow up post for setup High Availability feature with Starwindsoftware’s ISCSI SAN. In the first part I simply showed what’s my lab configuratio will look like and what I will need to test the HA feature. I basically took 2 VMs running 2003 […]
Purge old data from vCenter
Shrink vCenter Database. Update: For vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5, see the To truncate all performance data from vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5 section in Reducing the size of the vCenter Server database when the rollup scripts take a long time to run (1007453). SQL Express 2005/2008 (vCenter Server 5.x is bundled with SQL Express […]
NIC Teaming configuration video
NIC Teaming video. In this video you’ll see that NIC teaming feature is quite easy to configure. This video comes from VMware KB and I cant’s say this often enough, the guys there are producing some high quality content there…. 😎 With NIC teaming in place you won’t fear material failure any more, because the […]
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