The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers This post is dedicated to my friend’s, associates and counterparts who go un-noticed by those managers and VPs who don’t get it. You are the brains behind the magic that virtualizes all those servers. You make VMware look easy, even though we [...]
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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