Bad network performance on new ESX host
At a client site we came upon a problem with Windows 2003 VM’s. They would get low network performance when we moved them to a newly formed ESX cluster consisting of HP 460c G6 blades. In some cases logging on to the server with a…
Building and maintaining the VMworld 2009 Datacenter
It is becoming a sequel, the datacenter VMware has build for this weeks VMworld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition to our two previous articles (art1, art2), today we found two very nice videos loaded with tons of techno porno! The…
What server hardware to choose for your virtualization project?
Selecting physical server hardware while rounding up the business case is always a fun exercise, what do you need and what is smart too choose? A question you should definitely ask yourself is are we going to scale up or to scale out or do…
VMware HCL searchable
VMGuy posted a very very useful item today… The HCL is searchable!! No more downloading PDF’s before you give an advice, just search the up to date HCL
Faulty HP ESXi 3.5 USBs
At the same client site where we had the problems with VMware Update Manager and ESXi we are now struggling with HA. We can NOT get it to work and even WMware support can NOT get it to work either. We have been on the…