vRAM, What About The Future?
Today VMware announced some big chanced to their vRAM Entitlements on vSphere 5, basically doubling the amount you can assign on the two enterprise levels and increasing all others by…
Author: Justin Paul
HP DL380 G5 and SC08e SAS Card
I’ve been asked several times if this combination will work, I guess the HP site says they are not compatible… or at least doesn’t list them as being tested and…
What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011
With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my…
Migrating External SAS storage to VMware
The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the…
Is vSphere 5 Storage Appliance a good buy?
VMware is targeting SMB’s and branch offices for its latest vSphere add-on. The vSphere 5 Storage Appliance offers customers the choice of putting internal storage in their ESXi servers and…
vRAM: Some Good News
I was reading through some partner documentation and found two question and answers that I think will help ease some of the anger surrounding vRAM Entitlements in the VMware user…
Scale Up or Scale Out, Which do you do? 2 Socket or 4 Socket Servers?
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
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
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
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.…