Saturday, May 21, 2011

HIGHLY SUGGESTED VMWARE HA READING

VMware HA is a little complicated in some aspects. These are three links that really help clarify some best practice to follow and suggestion. The 2nd and 3rd links have the best explanation I have seen for what values to use with setting of "Percentage of Cluster Resources" that I imagine most are
using in the real world.

Also remember there is a new book available that I would also highly suggest.

NEW POWERSHELL BOOK

ONE of the MUST Learn talents in managing your virtual infrastructures has to be getting good with Powershell. The last several years at VMworld the Powershell sessions have been filled to the max. Well now is your chance to get a new book by some of the best VMware Powershell experts out there. 

Book example downloads: http://alturl.com/aw8ci

WOW WHAT A BUSY YEAR

Virtualization is HOT and I have not had much time for blogging this year! We are working on a Vmware View 4.6 implementation and tons of projects, plus the normal architectural challenges of moving forward.

Anyway...I will try to share a few goodies with you quickly....

Monday, May 2, 2011

CONSOLE MIRRORING A PCoIP SESSION

Fully credit for this discovery goes to http://www.thatsmyview.net and Vincent Wu Vicent's Blog.
But this is a very worthy find. You can find the full details at the links provided and download the
reg entry from here.

Friday, April 15, 2011

VCP CERTIFICATIONS FINALLY PAYS OFF:

As my bio states, I have been using VMware ESX for about 11 years now and passed each certification for release 2, 3 and now vSphere 4. I have been dedicated to being a VMware Virtualization Architect for almost 4 years now, meaning all I do is VMware related stuff.

Well this week, after about 4 years of pushing for a new title and promotion it happened and I received my promotion! I LOVE VMWARE and more importantly I BELIEVE and TRUST IT and the company!

Thanks VMware for your excellent products which provided me this new and exciting career!

Friday, March 4, 2011

THE QUEUES INVOLVED IN VSPHERE

Very nice reminder of all th device Queues involved in Vsphere. Original article with more details at YellowBricks.

  • Guest device driver queue depth (LSI=32, PVSCSI=64)
  • vHBA (Hard coded limit: LSI=128, PVSCSI=255)
  • disk.schedNumOutstanding=32 (VMKernel),
  • VMkernel Device Driver (FC=32, iSCSI=128, NFS=256,  local disk=32)
  • Multiple SAN/Array Queues 

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

SPECIAL WIN7 VERSION FOR VDI

"WinTPC is a smaller foodprint, locked down version of Windows 7, which enables customers to install this windows version on existing PCs repurposing them as thin clients which can be used to access Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. WinTPC is comparable with Windows XP Fundamentals, which was revealed in 2005. "

More info and original reporting of this from here.

CHEAP DISASTER RECOVERY FOR VSPHERE

Very nice set of scripts and presentation from DUTCH VMUG event...homemade SRM via scripts!

http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/cheap-disaster-recovery/

 

Thursday, February 10, 2011

VDS AND VCENTER IN VM MUST READ!

Wow...this is an awesome post of something I have so far avoided. But I have started migration to VDS since all new networking enhancements will be made to VDS only.
Even if you don't use vShield I think you need to understand the potential problem here.


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