Block size
I have been trying to mull over the significance on block size on application performance. VMFS 5 use a block size of 1 MB and for instance OLTP databases generally uses 4 KB or 8 KB block size. How...
View ArticleRe: Assigning IPs to each VM Ubuntu using VMWare EXSi 5, with vSphere Client.
IP address needs to be assigned inside the Guest OS level... You need to map the physical nic to VM network for the VMs to be recognized on the network.
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director High Availability
Also can I use vShield EDGE load balancer to load balance the vCD servers VM?
View ArticleRe: Block size
VMFS block size is completely irrelevant...thats basically an allocation unit. Guest reads/writes are passed through untouched, so you should tune your RAID to the application in the guest, not to a...
View ArticleRe: Vmware Autodeploy with host profile not work
Host profile is applied at runtime, and it is not saved in a stateless case....Correct me if i have missed your point... This link might be helpful as well......
View ArticleRe: Block size
Hi Akash,So, is there any block size setting that happens at a storage volume level? My next question would be since storage is shared with various applications running on different VMs & all...
View ArticleRe: Need Help Troubleshooting Disk I/O Performance Please..
Yes Enable cache.. It would improve the performance... AX4-5i should be using iSCSI. If yes recommend enabling jumbo frames as well...
View ArticlePlayer does not start up anymore
My VMWare Player was working well since yesterday. When I try to start the Player it don't even react.I get no error message or something. I noticed that it sometimes write a log. Most times the log...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.1 U1 - Primergy RX200S4, Raid0 issue - VD not detected properly
Check this link http://ultimatewhitebox.com/ Pretty handy for lab users..
View ArticleRe: Block size
The answer to all this is the below link... http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/understanding-vmfs-block-size-and-file-size/
View ArticleVC's Report Need More help
how do i modify this script to list the following hierarchilyvcenterdatacenterclusterhost nameesx versionvm namevm ipVm MAC addvm tools versionvm hardware versionvm disk sizememorycpu...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Fusion 5 and Airplay Mirroring
Airparrot works 100% - but I was hoping to do this without having extra purchases. It is a pity that VMWare is unable to support/emulate it. But it does make total sense. I guess we now wait for...
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Re: Checking VM Guests for AV
You can try something like this .. At first try Get-WmiObject Win32_Product | ? { $_.Name -like "*Forefront*" } locally, i don't have forefront here so i don't know how it's named in Win32_Product list...
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Re: Constant NetBIOS Name Service query/refresh for Windows 7 VM
Hi Matt, Thanks for pointing this out. Did you get the NBNS queries/refreshes on your Mac OS or your Windows 7 VM? I could see the NBNS queries on Mac even without Fusion running. Do you mind attaching...
View ArticleBackup fails due to quiescing
Hello Since upgrading our environment from 5.0 to 5.1 we are having problems backing up several VM'sWe use the Netvault Backup, with the VMware Plugin, to backup our VM's When a backup job is run...
View ArticleMultible entry points for View users
Hey volks, We have a working Vmware View 5.1.1 Environment in our Company running. We're using a single connection server this time for providing access to the VDI pool - only for internal staff only....
View ArticleRe: Backup fails due to quiescing
what is the guest os of the vm you are backing up? can you go to the VM directory and get the vmware.log file uploaded?
View ArticleRe: custom image esxi 5 sata raid acer altos g540
Which sata-raid do you mean? As you can find in Users Guide: "...RAID option for the Altos G540 system is provided through either theonboard SATA controller or through an external controller...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1 esxi handle 2 verisons of hosts?
Here are the steps: - Upgrade your vCenter 4.1 to 5.1. - Once done, yes vCenter 5.1 can manage your 4.1 hosts. - Now put your one ESXi 4.1 in maintenance mode and migrate all your VMs to other 4.1...
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