During a health check of a vSphere environment i notices dropped packets on several VMs. In ESXTOP the %DRPRX value showed dropped receive packets on several VMs. In the screenshot an example: The customer uses vSphere 4.0 build 244038. All the VMs that experiencing the dropped packets problem were …
Continue ReadingVMware View & ThinApp Presented by David Davis covers the following topics: View Overview and introduction Installing VMware View 4 Deploying Virtual Desktops with View Automated Virtual Desktop Deployment with View Pools Adding a Terminal Services Pool in View Understanding View Composer Linked …
Continue ReadingTo get your HP EVA storage system and VMware ESX hosts storage balances you get a better performance. Here are some Best practices. The VMware vSphere and the HP EVA 4x00, 6x00 and 8x00 series are ALUA compliant. ALUA compliant means in simple words that it is not needed to manually identify …
Continue ReadingThe vSphere Quick Start guide is released and available from Amazon. This guide is written by 6 virtualization guru’s named: Duncan Epping Alan Renouf Dave Mishchenko Bernie Baker Thomas Bryant Stewart Radnidge The book summary from Amazon: vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea …
Continue ReadingToday when i woke up there where a lot of VMware updates available (to much to handle for one day 🙂 ). I did an upgrade of my lab environment, it went smooth with any issues. VMware did a great job with the new improvements! Here’s a list of improvements with some screenshots: VMware ESX 4 Update 1 …
Continue ReadingThere are four possible paths to achieve VCP4 certifiaction: If you are NEW to VMware Attend the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course OR attend the VMware vSphere 4: Fast Track (available in Q4) Take and pass the VCP4 exam If you are currently a VCP3 Take and pass the VCP4 exam. This …
Continue Reading