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	<title>VM Install &#187; Joe Sanchez</title>
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		<title>VMware VMkernel SWAP File Best Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answering the question that always seems to get asked, &#8220;what is the best practice for the VM SWAP file?&#8221; I have put this method through bench testing and found it to have the best performance, step by step for VM SWAP file configuration is: Set up a data store in each ESX cluster for guest SWAP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESX Swap File Size Best Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do a custom installation of ESX and make your swap partition 1024 MB instead of the default 542 MB. Later you will need the room when you have to increase your service console memory from 272 MB to 512 (800 MB Max) to keep your systems from crashing when you access them from within a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways for Extending a VM&#8217;s Disk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VM Guest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creating Space]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Strength]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Optional Packages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partition Disk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partition Tables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Templates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Ways]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB &#8220;C&#8221; disk so what do you do when you run out of space?  Here are three methods which might work for you to increase the size of your virtual server&#8217;s disk.  Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware P2V Checklist for Servers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[30 Minutes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gotchas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix Area]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Users Group]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November I visited the VMware users group for the Phoenix area and one of the big topics was P2V. Not enough can be said about all the challenges there are to successfully convert physical servers to virtual servers (P2V), especially when your data center has hundreds of servers with various configurations and operating systems. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Tool &#8211; VKernel Search My VM</title>
		<link>http://www.vminstall.com/free-tool-vkernel-search-my-vm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acording]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Custom Query]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ip Address]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vminstall.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good free tools for VMware VI are not easy to come by so I thought I would write a post about one I think may have some usefulness. It&#8217;s from VKernel and it&#8217;s called SearchMyVM. According to VKernel here are the benefits: FREE “Google–like” SearchMyVM tool Quickly find info in your VMware data center Gain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Apply for a VMware Engineer Job</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vminstall.com/how-to-apply-for-a-vmware-engineer-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Networking Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Os Type]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resume]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vminstall.com/?p=952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the manager of a large virtual infrastructure, I&#8217;m always looking for excellent VMware talent for my team.  Weekly I review resumes and to be honest &#8211; Some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain ugly! What gets my attention isn&#8217;t just the words: VMware, ESX, ESXi or VCP on resumes, but moreover when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Fit Virtualization Criteria Checklist</title>
		<link>http://www.vminstall.com/best-fit-virtualization-criteria-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ESX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyper-V]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Array]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candidacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Checklist Criteria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disk Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Availability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory Requirement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vminstall.com/?p=490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding servers which are the &#8220;Best Fit&#8221; canadates for virtualization can be tricky. I have put together the following criteria checklist to help determine whether a new server provision or a P2V should use virtualization. The Best Fit checklist uses my own criteria and weight recommendations but it can be modified with more liberal values.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Windows templates for deployment in Virtual Center</title>
		<link>http://www.vminstall.com/creating-windows-templates-deployment-virtual-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vminstall.com/creating-windows-templates-deployment-virtual-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[C Documents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cab File]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Correct Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cpu Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documents And Settings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Sysprep]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Use Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will cover Windows templates but the same steps are used with Linux, except the Sysprep. After you get your VM the way you want it, patches, secured and have your applications installed, you right click on it in the inventory windows of your virtual center and select “convert to template”. Converting to a template [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager Event Key Notes</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vminstall.com/my-microsoft-hyper-v-and-virtual-machine-manager-event-key-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyper-V]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vminstall.com/?p=304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I spent 4 hours listening to Microsoft technicians talk about Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and System Center. Here are some of the key notes I took about Hyper-V:   Licensing for Microsoft Server 2008 includes (1P + 1V) – This mean you can have 1 physical Microsoft Server 2008 running Hyper-V and 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing Virtual Machines out CPU Cores</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Are you trying to squeeze every CPU cycle out of your dual or quad core processors? Unfortunately for those who like to over-clock CPUs for gaming, over utilizing CPU doesn&#8217;t quite work the same on virtual hosts (ESX or Hyper-V). From my experience, I know you can get anywhere from 8 &#8211; 10 vCPUs per [...]]]></description>
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