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E1000 and dropped rx packets

At a customer site we received several notifications of performance issues with a VMware VI3 environment. After having checked the configuration of the VMs and the Hosts we decided to dive into esxtop. At first sight we did not see any abnormalities....

Posté par jcdemarque à 15:50 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, network, E1000, dropped packets

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15 décembre 2009

Boot from Paravirtualized SCSI Adapter

From vSphere U1, VMware now support booting from a Paravirtualized SCSI adapter, why would you want to do this? Well why not, check out the VMware Performance Blog where VMware have tested this adapter and shared their results. VMware were able to achieve...

Posté par jcdemarque à 06:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, update, Boot, 4, vSphere, paravirtualized SCSI

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11 décembre 2009

VMware ESX 3.5 Update (U5) Released

Just a quick post, albeit a few days late, to make those of you still running VMware ESX 3.5 aware that VMware have recently (4th December) released a new update for it – Update 5 (U5) which is available to download and install via all the usual update...

Posté par jcdemarque à 13:30 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, available, 3.5, Update 5, dispo

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10 décembre 2009

ESX(i) 4.0 Update 1A

ESX(i) 4 Update 1 has just been re-released: We’ve released a new version of ESX 4.0 Update 1 that resolves the issue with the ESX 4.0 Update 1 install failing, timing out and resulting in the host entering an usable state. The new version is called ESX...

Posté par jcdemarque à 09:45 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, update, esxi, 4, 1A

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27 novembre 2009

Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state

!!! Dont update to ESX 4U1 if you are running HP !!! Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state if the host has HP Insight Management Agents running Symptoms On HP Proliant systems,...

Posté par jcdemarque à 15:38 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, HP, update, error, failure, 4, 1, U1

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23 novembre 2009

ESX(i) 4.0 -> ESX(i) 4.0 U1 update

Those who are running vSphere ESX(i) and have the Cisco Nexus1000v installed might want to read this: If your customers are on ESXi/ESX 4.0 and want to update to U1 using the vihostupdate then first they need to read this new KB: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015879...

Posté par jcdemarque à 15:57 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, cisco, update, esxi, 4, 1, nexus

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23 novembre 2009

VMware VIEW 4 : disponible au téléchargement! ESX 4 Update 1 et vCenter 4 U1!

J'ai reçu ce week end le mail me propsant de télécharger les nouvelles versions de VIEW 4 : ESX 4 U1 (814MB) vCenter 4 U1 (1.9GB) et tout les modules VIEW, dont Thinapp 4.0.4, Workstation 7.... Que du tout bon! A vos téléchargements, prévoir quand même...

Posté par jcdemarque à 15:34 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, update, 4, vSphere, view, 1

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12 novembre 2009

Dangerous default on ESX 4

My colleague (thanks Kevin), just alerted me to a default setting on ESX 4, which I think is potentially dangerous these days. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on an ESX 4 console, it will reboot the server even if there are running VMs and it doesn’t care if...

Posté par jcdemarque à 11:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, mistake, 4, dangerous, default

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8 novembre 2009

How to access USB and Other PCI Devices in VMware ESXi4 VMs with VMDirectPath

Introduction to VMDirectPath Although hardware independence is fundamental to many of the advantages of virtualization it also creates a problem when you need to connect a specific hardware device to a virtual machine. Although SCSI passthrough has been...

Posté par jcdemarque à 22:35 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, usb, esxi, VMdirectpath, device, pci

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19 octobre 2009

Before Host Profiles there was vicfg-cfgbackup.pl

This last weekend I was reminded of a RCLI command that creates a backup of your ESXi Host configuration. A client had an ESXi host where the USB drive failed. The system didn’t entirely crash, it pinged so HA didn’t kick-in however hostd and vpxa weren’t...

Posté par jcdemarque à 15:42 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, backup, restore, config, tool, esxi

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15 octobre 2009

Virtualisation de serveurs Windows : PSA abandonne VMware pour l'Hyper-V de Microsoft

Le constructeur automobile français a entamé un vaste projet de virtualisation de son parc de serveurs Windows. A l'origine utilisateur de VMware ESX Server, PSA a finalement décidé de standardiser ses déploiements sur Hyper-V. L'hyperviseur de Microsoft...

Posté par jcdemarque à 21:54 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, Migration, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server, bascule, serveur, abandon

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17 septembre 2009

Many customers are not aware that now it’s better to deploy ESXi than ESX

ESXi 4 IS the Standard now: I have to explain that on almost weekly basics to my customers and prospects, that, the ESXi 4 version of VMware is the version that they should adopt now as the ESX 4 version with the COS will disappear. The ESXi 4 version...

Posté par jcdemarque à 11:17 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, esxi, editions, vSphere, Standard

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16 septembre 2009

Partitioning your ESX host – part II

Voici ce qui nous préconise Duncan pour partitionner ESX 4 (vSphere) : A while back I published an article on partitioning your ESX host. This was based on 3.5, and of course with vSphere this has slightly changed. Let me start by quoting a section from...

Posté par jcdemarque à 12:06 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, best practice, 4, partitions

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10 septembre 2009

Use your Windows server as a shared Storage for your ESX Server

Ok, I already posted a guide about how to configure Openfiler Linux for free as a shared storage for your Virtual Infrastructure. If you’re not into linux, you can just try Starwind for free too…. (up to 2 TB of Data !!). Here is a PDF guide (it’s for...

Posté par jcdemarque à 07:31 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, Microsoft, free, iscsi, Windows, target, starwind

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2 septembre 2009

VMware service to push SMBs to ESXi

It has been two years since VMware announced ESXi, the small-footprint hypervisor that eliminates the Linux-based service console. Today, on the eve of VMworld 2009, the company is launching a beta service designed to encourage small and medium-sized...

Posté par jcdemarque à 22:01 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, SMB, esxi, VI3, vSphere, version

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21 juillet 2009

USB Device Mapping to VM in ESX4 Does Not Work As Stated

1.0 Overview With the release of ESX4, VMware documented the inclusion of a USB Host Controller device that could be installed in to hosted Virtual Machines. This USB controller would allow the mapping of a host attached USB device through to a VM. However...

Posté par jcdemarque à 09:23 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, usb, software, host, vSphere, bridge, fault, hub

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15 juillet 2009

EMC - VMware: que sera le datacenter du futur - virtuel?

Atmos, VSphere, Source-One, Avamar et... Data Domain... EMC récapitule ses briques pour la refonte du datacenter et les 'clouds privés virtuels' A l'occasion d'un séminaire destiné à ses grands clients, invités au Pavillon Gabriel des Champs Elysées,...

Posté par jcdemarque à 10:03 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, EMC, datacenter, futur, vSphere, Data domain, avamar, virtuel

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24 juin 2009

Killing a frozen VM on a vSphere ESX host

Occasionally virtual machines (VMs) get stuck in a zombie state and will not respond to a power-off command using the traditional vSphere client power controls. Rebooting a host will fix this condition — but rebooting is usually not an option. Fortunately,...

Posté par jcdemarque à 12:03 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, VM, vSphere, frozen, kill

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4 juin 2009

Convert any Windows server in a free SAN for your ESX/vSphere lab

In case you are not using free Openfiler under Linux for your VMware ESX Server/vSphere 4 homelab (if you don’t like linux for example…) there is a solution for you. A company called StarWind is providing for free a Software allowing to create an iSCSI...

Posté par jcdemarque à 12:09 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, Server, Appliance, san, Windows, Emulation, vSphere, starwind

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2 juin 2009

JCDecaux virtualise 100% de ses serveurs pour réduire coûts et délais

En virtualisant l'ensemble de son parc de serveurs, JCDecaux a réduit significativement les coûts d'exploitation et les délais d'application des changements, tout en améliorant la disponibilité du système d'information. Le système d'information de JCDecaux...

Posté par jcdemarque à 17:16 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: ESX, VMWare, Virtualisation, Virtualization, VI3, JCDecaux

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