USB device device path-through is vMotion aware, not VMDirectPath. I just stumbled into this KB showing what’s the difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through. Read on if you’re not sure or you want/need to get a specific high-speed configuration with 10Gigs NIC available only for your VM (without the Virtualization […]
How-to setup number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine
Since vSphere 4.1 VMware supports Multicore Virtual CPU technology. You may not only implement and assign how many vCPU per VM (up to 8 vCPU in entreprise plus, up to 4 vCPU for the others), but also you can define how many cores per vCPU that VM will have. This could be used to maximize […]
Virtualizing Domain controller
Virtualizing Domain controller is the subject of today’s post. I was able to attend a session which is oriented for some lead practices for Virtualizing Active Directory using vSphere. The session EA6705 was full or almost. Some of my customers are still fearing going full virtual, or some of you who working in an organization where […]
vCenter ports requirements
vCenter Ports used in vCenter Server. In case you study for a VCP exam and preparing your VCP 4 certification, you will certainly stumble during browsing the VCP blueprint through the vCenter port requirements. You can get a diagram from Virtualinsanity.com, where Dudley Smith did a great job with his diagram in PDF format. You can see […]
VM with snapshots some best practices
A new KB brought my attention about VMware Snapshots. It’s certainly not a good idea to run a VM with snapshots during longer period of times. First of all, snapshots consume disk space. But even if it’s fairly easy to have a VM and take snapshots periodically with a vCenter actions, but is that really […]
Create your own Provider Virtual Data Center
A new video from KBTV shows you some steps of creation of the Provider Virtual Data Center. A PvDC – Private Virtual Data Center – creates an abstraction of Compute and Storage Virtual Resources that can represent a geographically located compute (for example, East Coast vCenter), a level of service (for example, fast compute and/or […]
Measure some perf benchs with VMark
Fujitsu Servers performance’s winning benchmarks on 32 and 24 cores systems. What is VMark? VMmark is an industry’s first virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers. VMmark can be used by equipment manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators and other organizations. With VMark you can: Measure virtual machine performance. Compare the the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms. […]
VMware partners with Symantec on ApplicationHA
Enforce VMware HA with Symantec’s ApplicationHA. Symantec is about to release (in September) new product called ApplicationHA. What’s that? It is based on the Veritas Cluster Server technology and provides application availability in coordination with VMware HA. As you know the VMware HA help to restart your VM on another server, but what about the […]
SIOC yes, but not in the SMB kit…
Which vSphere 4.1 features really matters for SMB market. Since the release of the new vSphere 4.1 there has been quite a lot features presented from the technical side. One of the new features present is SIOC. The Storage Input Output control. Yes it’s great, but unfortunately you’ll not find this feature in the vSphere […]
Best practices KB on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter
How to install vCenter 4.1 and ESX 4.1 best practices KB. Browsing some KB articles this morning I found a KB with some best practices on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server. I can highly recommend this one….It’s actually a walk through point after point to be fulfilled to successfully install your vCenter and […]
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