19 June 2011 ~ 4 Comments

VMware VMkernel SWAP File Best Practice

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 [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Zombie VMs Soon to be Hunted by vZombie

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 somehow over [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls

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’t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]

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