How to enable VAAI on ESX for XIV storage
Many administrators don’t know how powerful VAAI (storage hardware acceleration) is, some of them ignores but if your storage supports VAAI I strongly recommend to enable...
May 14, 2012
Category: vSphere 4
How the traffic flows ? Part 2 – storage vMotion with VAAI
Today, second part of traffic flows series storage vMotion with VAAI. Scenario: Storage vMotion of virtual machine VMDKs from VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5 datastore, storage supports...
April 11, 2012
Could not power on VM : No swap file. Failed to power on VM
When the ESX server get unexpected restart, it might happen that some of the VMs has a problem with Power on due to file lock. Failed...
March 21, 2012
VAAI – what is that ?
What the VAAI is? vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) can offload ESX host for specific storage operations such as: Atomic Test & Set (ATS), which...
March 14, 2012
How the traffic flows ? Part 1 – storage vMotion
Many users have difficulties with understanding how the traffic flows during vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual machine clone, P2V or V2V. I decided to explain and to...
March 6, 2012
vSphere Best Practices – links repository
During preparation VCAP5-DCD preparation I gather a lot of interesting documents with best practices for vSphere 5, vSphere 4 and common for both version. I thought...
February 23, 2012
January 28, 2012
vSphere virtual LAB setup – remote access to server
Between VCP5 and VCDX project preparation I found a few hours to play with my LAB. First problem to solve was how to remotely access VMware...
January 22, 2012
IBM REDbooks – storage N series with vSphere 4.1
Few days ago IBM release new redbook for storage N series and VMware vSphere 4.1. IBM redbooks series is a very good, advanced technical documentation with...
December 16, 2011
Cannot add or reconnect host to vCenter server
Few days ago, after restart one of my ESX servers I wasn’t able connect it back to vCenter server. Connection process bar hangs on 80% and...
December 14, 2011
