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How to change the default location of updates in vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Change the default path for updates and patches. For the updates: It can be useful many times when after you install vCenter your realize after some time, that you don’t have much space left on your C drive. And you might need to change the path to D, where your drive has plenty of space […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: default download path change vmware, VMware update manager, vSphere update manager, VUM

Starwind iSCSI HA Connection to ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

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. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: connect iSCSi to vSphere 4, Starwind connection to VMware vSphere, Starwind iSCSI SAN

See a list of Storage Array Type Plugins on ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Eternus dx60, MRU, SATP rules, storage

New whitepaper released on PVSCSI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: paravirtualized SCSI Adapter, PVSCSI white paper, VMware PVSCSI or LSI logic

Enable Jumbo Frames in ESXi 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

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. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: enable jumbo frames Vmware Vsphere, Jumbo Frames

How-to troubleshoot iSCSI connection to your SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 14, 2010

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: iSCSI SAN Configuraion, ISCSI VMware, Troubleshooting iscsi, vmkping command, VMware iSCSI SAN Troubleshooting

Starwind with ISCSI SAN Software can do High Availability for you…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind HA, Starwind SAN software, Starwind Software, StarwindSoftware High Availability

Are you looking for vSphere Pro Training?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Coupon Code VMware, VMware vSphere 4 Coupon Code, vSphere 4 promo, vSphere 4 training Coupon Code

You know how to collect diag information when your ESXi does PSOD?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 5, 2010

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs ESXi, how to collect logs ESXi 4, logs ESXi 4

Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Do I choose the PVSCSI or LSI Logic virtual adapter on ESX 4.0 for non-IO intensive workloads? I thought that the question about using or not VMware Paravirtual adapter was solved with the vSphere 4 Update 1 and the announce that VMware has officialy support PVSCSI on boot disks. For me it was clear that I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: pvSCSI, using PVSCSI, vmware paravirtual, vSphere update 1 pvscsi

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