by Brian Scheewe | Nov 25, 2015 | Cisco, Networking, Virtualization
The Cisco ASA firewall can run as virtual host for multiple virtual ASA’s known as contexts. We recently ran into an issue where a memory leak made one context inoperable. Rather than reload the entire ASA and take out the other contexts we wanted to only...
by Brian Scheewe | Feb 12, 2015 | Infrastructure, Virtualization, VMware
Tips on tuning VMware ESXi for EqualLogic SANs. Install Dell MEM Download from here: https://eqlsupport.dell.com/support/download.aspx?id=1484 Important: Unzip the package and inside the package is another zip file. That’s the file that should be uploaded to a...
by Brian Scheewe | Feb 6, 2012 | Servers, Virtualization
We recently encountered an issue with VMware ESXi USB passthrough that is worth noting. On a Dell PowerEdge R and T series servers (T710, R710, R610, etc) you can opt to install ESXi on the embedded SD card. It works great and allows the OS disk to be completely...
by Brian Scheewe | Oct 19, 2011 | Virtualization, VMware
Here are the steps to convert a thick VMDK file to thin. Steps 2-4 are optional, but if you want to shrink it down as small as possible then don’t skip them! Evaluate how much space you have on the datastore. You will be creating 2 copies of the .vmdk file...
by Brian Scheewe | Mar 15, 2010 | Servers, Virtualization, VMware
Ten Reasons You Should Already Be Using Virtualization For Your Server Environment According to Intel: Virtualization technology is possibly the single most important issue in IT and has started a top to bottom overhaul of the computing industry Virtualization is a...
by Brian Scheewe | Nov 23, 2009 | Infrastructure, Virtualization, VMware
To get the best performance out of VMware’s iSCSI initiator it’s a good idea to enable jumbo frames on the ESX hosts. First configure a new vSwitch dedicated to the iSCSI network and if you’re doing this in the GUI delete the default port group that...
