This post is part three to Why We Love Continuing Education and Certifications and How I Study for IT Certification Exams There’s a genre of movie that’s usually predictable, sometimes corny, but always endearing. These are the movies where a group of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here’s a tip if your ESX host freaks out and you happen to be storing a VMFS partition on the same volume as ESX: If an “upgrade” install doesn’t fix the problem then do a clean install and on the page that shows how it will cut up the...
