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Scale Up or Scale Out, Which do you do? 2 Socket or 4 Socket Servers?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

I was talking with a customer today about an application we are talking about virtualizing. The vendor only recommends purchasing HP DL580 servers, loading them with lots of RAM and…

vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more…

Host Isolation and VM Shutdown

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Over the weekend I was asked to determine why all virtual machines on a cluster were shutdown at 9:45AM on Sunday. There had been no storms, and the datacenter where…

HP P2000 SAS Storage vMotion Performance

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

Today I moved a 350GB Virtual machine from one Datastore to another on a P2000 SAS SAN and was pretty impressed with the performance so I thought I would share.…

vSphere5: What SMB need to know

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

With the release of vSphere 5 comes what many are calling the “vRAM TAX”. If you haven’t heard of it check out this post I made the other day. Anyhow,…

vSphere 5 vRAM Considerations

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

July 12th VMware officially announced vSphere 5 and all of its awesome new features. One of these “features” is called vRam Entitlements. Basically what this “feature” does is limit the…

Had your vHealth Checked Lately?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

VMware and its’ partners offer a really cool service to customers called a Health Check. Basically, a Health Check Report is a listing of all of the VMware Best practices……

Setting vCenter Alarms with PowerCLI

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Update: This script was intended for vSphere 4 and had a bunch of limitations. For a newer version with more functionality check out FixingITpro.com. PowerCLI, and Powershell in general, are…

Officially a VMware vExpert!

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

It looks like I can add one more credential to my about page today. This morning I checked my email and found the email I had been hoping for… confirmation…

Another Great Month

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who reads my blog. June exceeded my expectations once again on the number of unique visitors as well as the…