VMware Learning recently introduced some new VMware Trainings. One of those trainings is VMware Core Spring Training. This 4 day training is where the students will be introduced to Spring, learn how to configure the application, go through the Middle-Tier architecture, Implement Enterprise Information Connectivity and integrate with Enterprise Services. The course is available to attend […]
Advanced Disk Parameters: the unofficial diagram
Advanced Disk Parameters: the unofficial diagram This is a guest post by Andy Grant. When it comes to understanding complex topics, I find it useful to create a diagram of the concept or system in question. The creative process aids in my understanding and provides a means for discussion and review. In an attempt to wrap […]
Home Lab Gear: Cisco SG300-10 Layer 3 switch gets even better
Home Lab Gear: Cisco SG300-10 Layer 3 switch gets even better This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Vladan has previously covered this great little SMB switch from Cisco in his post My homelab – The Network design with Cisco SG 300 – a Layer 3 switch for €199. Cisco has just released the long […]
PXE Manager Howto: Converting ESX hosts to ESXi
PXE Manager Howto: Converting ESX hosts to ESXi This is a guest post by Andy Grant. PXE Manager was updated last week offering a new feature: ESX to ESXi conversion. With VMware’s push to replace classic ESX with ESXi this feature comes at a good time. Prior to any migration, it is highly recommended to review […]
Using the VMware Guest Console fling in the lab.
Virtual Guest Console Fling. This is a guest post by Andy Grant. The VMware Guest Console was released well over a year ago but never caught my interest until working in my home lab Tuesday night of last week. As a VMware admin or consultant you may or may not be responsible for making large […]
How to configure FreeNAS 8 for iSCSI and connect to ESX(i)
FreeNAS is working a bit differently than Openfiler when it comes to configuring iSCSI connection to ESXi host. When I finished building my homelab recently, I at first tested several distributions but finally sticked with FreeNAS which I think has the coolest user interface, and which can be up and running in less than 10 minutes. […]
SIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs
SIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs This is a guest post by Andy Grant. This is a continuation of the post Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. Questions arose about conflicting support statements for Storage IO Control and in an effort to further the investigation, I have performed […]
Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts
LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. This is a guest post by Andy Grant. This article is in response to the post More Questions About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. I previously posed a few questions about the behavior of vSphere’s SIOC and (LUN) Adaptive Queue Depth algorithm and […]
More Questions About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts
LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Jason Boche has posted an interesting article on the VMkernel parameter Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding. I confess that I have never thought much about the setting other than following VMware’s recommendation when changing HBA queue depth. Changing the Queue Depth for QLogic […]
Update to PXE Manager for vCenter Fling
Update to PXE Manager for vCenter Fling This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Max Daneri has released version 4.1 Update 1 of PXE Manager for vCenter. Be sure to uninstall the old version including the client plugin prior to installing the update. For all changes see the changelog. A new feature that caught […]
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