Category Archive: VMware

Feb 01

VAAI – what is it?

I’ve talked about VAAI a few times in my blog (such as VAAI implementation on the P2000 and vSphere), but what is it?

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Jan 24

vSphere 5 High Availability Best Practise Guide

For those that don’t know, there is a vSphere 5 Best Practise Guide for HA available from VMware: http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vsphere-ha-5-best-practices-guide.pdf

Jan 19

VAAI comes to the P2000

VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a later post).  Let’s just say at this point, if your storage device supports it, implement the required …

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Dec 10

VMware Networking Design

I’m a real fan of Scott Lowe and i found his presentation of Networking design very useful: An Eye for (Network) Design

Dec 08

Hyper-V in Workstation 8

If you want to try Hyper-V, but don’t have any spare hardware, you can install it under VMware Workstation 8, but you must make sure Virtualized HV enable. Virtualized HV is available for virtual hardware version 8 VMs on hosts that support Intel VT-x and EPT or AMD-V and RVI. To enable virtualized HV, select …

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