What’s the best practices to patition your ESX server installation? When you go and install ESX 4, its better to take some time and go for the custom partitioning scheme. Because when you just go with the default or you choose to partition the bad way… you might need to move your partitions afterwards or […]
Virtualizing Microsoft Active Directory
Things to remember and keep in a safe place when you go and run Active Directory in a VMs: In my experience I run a virtual infrastructure since several years. On my laptop in VMware Workstation or Virtual PC. In my homelab where I run ESXi4. But if you’re new to virtualization or you are […]
Optimize your VMs by uninstalling physical hardware after P2V
After your P2V one of those steps to do at first is the Installation of VMware Tools. Also, not only you should get rid of all the physical hardware in Device manager that’s not used any more but also those software packages which had been used on a physical server to manage the hardware (like […]
VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access
Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not supported with current release… You can install it as a second disk, for your […]
Get the best performance from your vSphere 4 infrastructure.
There is agreat new PDF available concerning the performance issues tweaks, advices and troubleshooting for your vSphere 4 architecture. If you are a simple admin in a Small business company or a Data-center engineer, this guide is just a must have… The author is Hal Rosenberg and he works as performance engineer at VMware. The […]
VMware vSphere 4 passing VCP Exam training links
I was trying to find some VCP 4 training links today. Since I slowly starting to prepare to to be ready for taking a VCP exam, I’m not only studying by reading PDFs and watching videos (even if it’s my preffered… ), I also try to do some practice in my home lab too. I […]
iOmega IX4 how-to video of configuration for iSCSI and NFS
If you are fan of iOmega ix2 and ix4 series than you’ll like this post and the video in it. The video is showing that the configuration of the device is fairly straightforward. It’s a shame that the sound it’s quite low, but the presentation is very straightforward. This video comes from Chad SACAC’s Blog. […]
New video from TrainSignal – Fault Tolerance – an ultimate protection for your VMs
Train Signal best selling VMware vSphere 4 video learning course. UPDATE: there is an additional course available called vSphere Pro Training vol.1 , which will teach you VMware View, Thinapp, and Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed switches… Purchased together you save 100$. See on this post. There is a great new video from TrainSignal. It’s a […]
vMotion for long distance… cool. VMware and vSphere is already in the Sky..
vMotion Certified for 200 Kilometers by VMware Now it’s just been certified by VMware that the long distance vMotion is officially supported by VMware. The maximum distance is 200 Kilometers. That’s perfect because our Island has about this distance. From St Denis to St Pierre (Two capitals) there is only about 80 Kilometers… -:). There […]
New product from EMC for the SMB and home market
This looks like that I could upgrade my Home Lab… -:) New blog post on Chad’s blog makes me really excited. We’ll see some new product family coming soon to the stores. It’s targeted for SMB and home market users. And that’s really interesting. With products which are more easy to use, they are ing […]
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