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		<title>Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on &#8220;things not to do&#8221; when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it&#8217;s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about &#8211; down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]]]></description>
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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>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>
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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>How to Apply for a VMware Engineer Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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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>My Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager Event Key Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<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>P2V – Step by Step Removing Physical Hardware</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since I had to P2V a Windows server but recently I found myself on a project doing P2Vs of business critical servers, again. FYI: The new version of VMware VM Converter works great for converting a physical Windows and Lunux server into a virtual server. Once the conversion is completed, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you need a step by step guide for installing ESX</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than 10 years I&#8217;ve been installing server technology and it&#8217;s never been easy to get things operating correctly on the first go-round. Even with the best planning, there are always unexpected things that come up and cause delays. That&#8217;s why you need a step-by-step guide for installing VMware ESX Server and Virtual Infrastructure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls I wish this information was available 10 years ago when I started working with virtualization, but then again, like many reading this, I thought I was an expert and didn&#8217;t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]]]></description>
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