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 […]
Are you looking for vSphere Pro Training?
Are you looking for vSphere Training? David Davis – which is the author of the First (and the best 😎 ) vSphere 4 training course. David is (vExpert, CCIE #9369, CWNA, MCSE, CISSP, Linux+, VCP). David will teach you what’s good for VMware View and ThinApp. Hal Rottenberg is the second person which will introduce […]
Veeam just released Fast SCP 3 compatible with W7 and 2008R2
Veeam just released a new version of very popular free SCP client FAST SCP 3. This software is very popular and the Windows 7 compatibility will make happy more than one (including me 😎 ). So it’s a great news to announce to all my regular readers. I followed Free SCP since the early days […]
vSphere 4 Pro video learning course is out.
Some great news today – The new vSphere Pro Video Training is Available. There is new video learning course available from TrainSignal. It’s completely new Professional Video Training course which is focusing on some advanced management techniques via Power CLI for VMware vSphere 4 and also some deep diving into PowerShell some other Vmware products […]
You know how to collect diag information when your ESXi does PSOD?
Find out more in logs concerning PSOD. Way back I explained in my post that exists several ways to collect logs from vCenter Server and send those crucial informations to vmware support to check out. This time I saw a VMware KB article explaining how to collect logs from a ESXi server doing PSOD (purple […]
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