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VMware VM Guest SWAP File Best Practice

Joe Sanchez — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:08:04 +0000

VM guest swap file diagram

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 [...]

P2V – Step by Step Removing Physical Hardware

editor — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:07:47 +0000

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, [...]

Squeezing Virtual Machines out CPU Cores

Joe Sanchez — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:07:41 +0000

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’t quite work the same on virtual hosts (ESX or Hyper-V).

From my experience, I know you can get anywhere from 8 – 10 vCPUs [...]

Virtual Machines Running or Registered on Multiple ESX Servers

editor — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:07:40 +0000

Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem…

Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does [...]

Best Fit Virtualization Criteria Checklist

Joe Sanchez — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:07:38 +0000

Finding servers which are the “Best Fit” 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 [...]

Google LiveAndroid OS Runs On Virtual Machine

editor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:38:45 +0000

Google LiveAndroid OS Runs On Virtual Machine

With all the recent buzz going on about Google’s New Android cell phones, I thought it would be worthwhile to blog this on VMInstall.com.

If you’re a techie who likes to spend time testing which operating systems they can get to run on a VM. [...]

Zombie VMs Soon to be Hunted by vZombie

Joe Sanchez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:38:41 +0000

Yesterday I was working on a PowerShell script for identifying VMs that are using resources but their role is no longer required. Either because the server owner decided to use a physical server because the VM was not performing as required, or the duties of the VM are completed and the decommissioning process was [...]

Three Ways for Extending a VM’s Disk

Joe Sanchez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:38:24 +0000

Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB “C” 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’s disk.

Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and [...]

My Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager Event Key Notes

Joe Sanchez — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:38:00 +0000

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 [...]