Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on “things not to do” when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it’s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about – down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]
Answering the question that always seems to get asked, “what is the best practice for the VM SWAP file?” 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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