tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897850083374317202024-03-18T08:08:49.267-06:00VMware ESXiAll Things VMware ESXiSneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-9516944986137354002015-03-12T17:16:00.000-06:002015-03-12T17:16:05.269-06:00VMware VCP Certification Expiration<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time to start renewing your VMware VCP certification...<br />
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"One year ago we announced that the VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
program would implement a new recertification policy requirement –
<b>requiring candidates to renew their certification every two years</b>. At
the time we gave all certification holders a one-year grace period,
which ends on March 10, 2015." -- Paul Sorensen<br />
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The full message from the "<a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/education/2015/03/vcp-recertification-deadline-extended.html">Short Extension For VCP Recertification Deadline (and a Reward for Those Who Met the Original Deadline)</a>", March 9th, 2015, announcement:<br />
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<i>"Hi Everyone,
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One year ago we announced that the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) program would implement a new recertification policy requirement – requiring candidates to renew their certification every two years. At the time we gave all certification holders a one-year grace period, which ends on March 10, 2015.
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As we have talked to customers and partners, we realized that some of our partners (who employ many VCPs) may have not had enough notification to pull their VCPs out of the field/office with sufficient time to get them recertified. Additionally, we were notified that there were some myLearn system issues this weekend that may have impacted some candidate’s ability to log in and get authorized to take an exam.
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For these two reasons, we are giving everyone a short extension of the grace period – extending the deadline until May 8, 2015.
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I know that this may frustrate some people who worked hard to meet the original deadline on time (i.e. recertifying between March 10, 2014 and March 10, 2015). We therefore want to thank each of you who acted early by allowing you to upgrade your certification to VCP6 (via a VCP6 migration exam) for 65% off (normal retail price is $225 USD). To take advantage of this offer, you must take the exam by August 31, 2015. As we finalize the details we will contact you directly with details of how to claim your discount, as well as provide more information here.
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We’ll also soon be publishing detailed information about the new certifications and migration paths on this blog. As the certifications, exams, and related training courses are released publicly, we will also update our website and announce them here on this blog (you can also sign up here to be directly notified by email). Although training is not a requirement if you are already certified, the vSphere: What’s New [V5.5 to V6] course is a great way to begin your preparation and therefore highly recommended. As other courses (instructor-led and On Demand) and preparation materials are released we will highlight them here.
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In conjunction with the short extension we will also be extending the availability of the VCP5-DCV Delta Recertification Exam until May 8 for those of you who want to recertify using this exam.
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Again, I want to personally thank each of you who took action and recertified by the deadline. Our team diligently strives to improve and evolve VMware certifications, ensuring maximum value to your career.
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Thank you again for your support!
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Paul Sorensen"</i></blockquote>
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-10490889201071933922015-03-12T15:23:00.002-06:002015-03-12T15:23:59.702-06:00Virtual SAN 6 GA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere6/doc/vmware-virtual-san-60-release-notes.html">Virtual SAN 6</a> is also officially GA<br />
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Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-16652814134759731262015-03-12T10:34:00.001-06:002015-03-12T10:35:05.387-06:00VMware ESXi 6.0 GA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor">VMware vSphere Hypervisor</a> (ESXi) 6.0 GA is now available for download.<br />
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<li><a href="https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6">Free License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_0">Enterprise License</a></li>
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-63290484332159322482015-03-11T14:52:00.002-06:002015-03-11T14:52:24.789-06:00List of VMware Releases and Build Information<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info">List of VMware Releases and Build Information</a></td></tr>
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Found this excellent comprehensive list of all <a href="http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info">VMware Releases and Build Information</a> over at <a href="http://vsphere-land.com/">http://vsphere-land.com</a>.<br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-2072796172868407192015-01-26T09:13:00.000-07:002015-01-30T09:15:02.740-07:00VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (2099265) <blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (2099265) <br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2099265">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2099265</a></blockquote>
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<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-78180159911984128302014-12-06T16:10:00.002-07:002014-12-09T16:33:08.265-07:00VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201412001 (2096281) <blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201412001 (2096281)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2096281">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2096281</a></blockquote>
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<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-75503205150068950132014-12-06T16:10:00.001-07:002014-12-09T16:33:08.262-07:00VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update03: ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 3 (2086278) <blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update03: ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 3 (2086278)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2086278">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2086278</a></blockquote>
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<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-54717529766219007532014-12-06T16:10:00.000-07:002014-12-09T16:33:08.258-07:00VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201412001 (2088715)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201412001 (2088715)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2088715">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2088715</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-63812872377965759722014-10-30T23:21:00.000-06:002014-11-10T23:22:37.232-07:00VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch Release ESXi510-201410001 (2084619)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch Release ESXi510-201410001 (2084619)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2084619">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2084619</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-10940241238650885282014-10-16T23:57:00.000-06:002014-10-20T23:58:04.497-06:00 VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201410001 (2087358)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201410001 (2087358)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2087358">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2087358</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>"This release contains general and security-only bulletins"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-8814392584812049342014-10-03T10:24:00.004-06:002014-10-03T10:31:56.072-06:00VMware ESX 4.0 Patch ESX400-201410001 (2090853)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESX 4.0 Patch ESX400-201410001 (2090853)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2090853">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2090853</a></blockquote>
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<i>"This patch updates Bash libraries in ESX to resolve multiple critical security issues, also referred to as Shellshock"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br /><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-29644949766541394102014-10-03T10:24:00.003-06:002014-10-03T10:31:59.277-06:00VMware ESX 4.1, Patch ESX410-201410001 (2090859)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESX 4.1, Patch ESX410-201410001 (2090859)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2090859">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2090859</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>"This patch updates Bash libraries in ESX to resolve multiple critical security issues, also referred to as Shellshock"</i></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-8101533566384273782014-09-09T13:32:00.000-06:002014-10-03T10:32:02.188-06:00VMware ESXi 5.5 Complete Update 2 (2079725)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.5 Complete Update 2 (2079725)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079725">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079725</a></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-91435742948015444642014-08-28T22:00:00.000-06:002014-10-03T10:32:05.562-06:00VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201408001 (2080838)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201408001 (2080838)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2080838">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2080838</a></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a><br />
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-8181928795630565792014-08-28T12:17:00.000-06:002014-08-28T12:27:32.319-06:00VMworld 2014 - Sights to See<b>San Francisco sights to see, within walking distance of the Moscone Center.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Francisco Bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden Gate Bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alcatraz</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pier 39 and Fisherman's Warf</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Francisco City Hall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinatown</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grace Cathedral</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cable Car Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coit Tower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lombard Street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ghirardelli Square</td></tr>
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-13247779046508944802014-08-26T17:46:00.003-06:002014-08-26T23:21:56.276-06:00VMworld 2014 - Getting the Most out of vMotion - Architecture, Features, Debugging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>"Getting the Most out of vMotion - Architecture, Features, Debugging vMotion is a key, widely adopted technology which enables the live migration of virtual machines on the vSphere platform. It enables critical datacenter workflows, including automated load-balancing with DRS and DPS, hardware maintenance, and the permanent migration of workloads. Each vSphere release introduces new vMotion functionality, and significant performance improvements to address key customer requests and enable new use cases. In this session, join engineers from the development and performance teams to get an insiders' view of vMotion architecture, cutting edge features, best practices, and tools for performance troubleshooting. Performance studies will be presented for some of the hot topics including Monster VM migrations, migrations over IPv6, and Metro migrations over Distributed/Federated storage deployments. Finally, take a sneak-peek into the future and performance directions for vMotion including long distance migrations and migration to public clouds".</i></div>
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<li>Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin - Staff Engineer 2, VMware</li>
<li>Sreekanth Setty - Staff Engineer, VMware</li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="vMotion">vMotion</span></h2>
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Transperent move of VM to another host.</div>
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vMotion requires shared storage</div>
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vMotion enables features like DRS and FT</div>
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vMotion Workflow</div>
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<li>skeleton vm on destination</li>
<li>copy vm memory state - most complex portion of workflow</li>
<li>quiesce vm on source</li>
<li>transfer device state and transfer remaining memory changes</li>
<li>resume vm on destination</li>
<li>poweroff source vm</li>
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How does the memory copy work? Pretty complex. Uses iterative memory pre-copy. Cycle through memory pages, copy and monitor for changes (dirty pages). Repeat until converges on equality.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Storage_vMotion">Storage vMotion</span></h2>
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Flip side of vMotion, only care about disk state.</div>
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VM remains on same host.</div>
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Storage vMotion has similar workflow as vMotion</div>
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<li>skeleton vm on destination</li>
<li><i>copy vm cold data, such as snapshots</i></li>
<li><i>copy vm hot data content</i></li>
<li>quiesce vm on source</li>
<li>transfer device state and hand off memory state</li>
<li>resume vm on destination</li>
<li><i>free vm resources on source</i></li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="vMotion_without_Shared_Storage">vMotion without Shared Storage</span></h2>
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Available since ESXi 5.1</div>
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Only available from the Web Client</div>
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Moving VM atomically to another host without shared storage!</div>
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Workflow looks like Storage vMotion</div>
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Current transfers cold data across management network - architectural decision that VMware is trying to fix</div>
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Works with any storage type (NFS, SAS, etc)</div>
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Technology written by presenter</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Features">Features</span></h2>
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History:</div>
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<li>vMotion (2003)</li>
<li>v5.0: Multi-NIC vMotion, Sun during Page send (DPS)</li>
<li>v5.1: vMotion without shared storage</li>
<li>v5.5: Metro VPLEX support, IPv6 improvements</li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Performance">Performance</span></h2>
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Performance metrics:</div>
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<li>migration time (memory/disk)</li>
<li>switch over time</li>
<li>application impact (throughput and latency)</li>
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Monster VM Migration Performance</div>
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<li>2 NICs shows significant benefit. 3rd NIC not so much (due to vMotion helper threads limitation).</li>
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Metro has up to 10 ms round trip time</div>
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EMC VPLEX optimizes vMotion duration</div>
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VPLEX uses some caching features for syncing across Metro</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="What.27s_Next_for_vMotion">What's Next for vMotion</span></h2>
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<li>vNIC improvements - such as 3rd NIC performance</li>
<li>support Array Replication with VVOLs</li>
<li>Long Distance vMotion</li>
<li>vMotion within/to the Hybrid Cloud (vCHS)</li>
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Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-16092848966245070232014-08-26T14:48:00.001-06:002014-08-26T15:11:31.791-06:00VMworld 2014 - Virtual SAN Best Practices for Monitoring and Troubleshooting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Virtual_SAN">Virtual SAN</span></h2>
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Virtual SAN - software-based storage built into ESXi</div>
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<li>Aggregates local Flash and HDDs</li>
<li>Shared datastore for VM consumption</li>
<li>Distributed architecutre</li>
<li>Deeply integrated with VMware stack</li>
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VSAN GA with ESXi 5.5 Update 1</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="RVC">RVC</span></h2>
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RVC - started as a VMware Labs "Fling"</div>
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<li>Interactive command line, with lots of VSAN commands</li>
<li>Included in VC since 5.5 (windows and appliance)</li>
<li>Presents inventory as a file structure</li>
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Verify Hardware against VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG)</div>
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HCL Guides:</div>
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<li>vSphere general compatibility guide (Servers, NICs, etc)</li>
<li>Virtual SAN compatilibyt guide - adpaters, Flash and HDDs</li>
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show adapters using RVC:</div>
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Virtual SAN HCL - <a class="external free" href="http://vmware.re/vsanhcl" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">http://vmware.re/vsanhcl</a></div>
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HCL steps:</div>
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<li>Step 1 - collect hardware information</li>
<li>Step 2 - check HCL - <a class="external free" href="http://vmware.re/vsanhcl" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">http://vmware.re/vsanhcl</a></li>
<li>Step 3 - verify your drivers</li>
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When viewing HCL entry, also check the "Class" and performance is important</div>
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Network - Misconfiguration Detected</div>
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<li>VSAN requires 10GBe (or 1G dedicated)</li>
<li>Single L2 network among ESX hosts</li>
<li>IP Multicast</li>
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Show ESX configuration:</div>
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RVC: vsan.cluster_info <cluster>
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Ensure all hosts have VSAN vmknic configured</div>
<pre style="background: white; border: 1pt dashed black; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.3em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 0px;">WebClient: host -> manage -> networking -> vmkernel adapters
esxcli vsan network list
RVC: vsan.cluster_info <cluster>
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Ensure VSAN vmknics are on right subnet</div>
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esxcli ?
RVC: vsan.cluster_info <cluster>
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Ensure Multicast is configured</div>
<pre style="background: white; border: 1pt dashed black; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.3em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 0px;">tcpdump-uw -i <vmknic> udp port 23451
tcpdump-uw -i <vmknic> igmp
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Issues">Issues</span></h2>
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VM shows as non-compliant / inaccessible / orphaned</div>
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<li>non-compliant - maybe one mirror down</li>
<li>inaccessible - really bad</li>
<li>orphaned - VC has forgotten about the VM</li>
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VSAN object accessible:</div>
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<li>at least one RAID mirror is fully intact</li>
<li>quorum: more than 50% of components need to be available (witnesses count here)</li>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="RVC_Reports">RVC Reports</span></h2>
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VSAN RVC state reports:</div>
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vsan.disks_stats <cluster>
vsan.obj_status_report <cluster>
vsan.obj_status_report --filter-table 2/3 -print uuids <cluster>
vsan.cluster_info <cluster>
vsan.resync_dashboard <cluster>
vsan.check_state --refresh-state <cluster>
vsan.disks_stats <cluster>
vsan.check_limits <cluster>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Diagnostics">Diagnostics</span></h2>
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Use the vSphere Web Client - the C# desktop client doesn't show VSAN or VSAN errors</div>
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VM Provisioning Started Failing -</div>
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<li>don't use: Cluster - Manage - Settings - Disk Management (where dissk were setup, it is not the right place to check disk health)</li>
<li>Use: monitor - virtual SAN - physical disk</li>
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Proactive approach, try creating vm on every host on the cluster:</div>
<pre style="background: white; border: 1pt dashed black; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 1.3em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 0px;">web client: standard method
rvc: diagnostics.vm_create -d <statstore> -v <vmfolder> <cluster>
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VMware believes in "Dog Fooding" - have many internal VSAN clusters running</div>
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VSAN Observer (vsan.observer in RVC)</div>
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<li>collects stats every 60 seconds</li>
<li>web interface</li>
<li>HOL Plug: check out VSAN Observer Hands On Labs</li>
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Outstanding IO chart in Observer is a good indicator that SSD speed is not sufficient (affects latency)</div>
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VSAN implements a priority traffic scheduler<br />
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Webinars on Monitoring/Troubleshooting:</div>
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<li>How To Monitor Virtual SAN (VSAN) - YouTube - <a class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHofTkK6K40" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHofTkK6K40</a></li>
<li>How to Troubleshoot Your Virtual SAN (VSAN) - YouTube - <a class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASL3WVqy65o" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASL3WVqy65o</a></li>
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VMware Blogs:</div>
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<li>RVC series:<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/png; list-style-type: disc;">
<li>Managing Virtual SAN with RVC: Part 1 - Introduction to the Ruby vSphere Console | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs - <a class="external free" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/07/managing-vsan-ruby-vsphere-console.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/07/managing-vsan-ruby-vsphere-console.html</a></li>
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<li>VSAN blog:<ul style="list-style-image: url(data:image/png; list-style-type: disc;">
<li>Official VMware Virtual SAN Blog Index | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs - <a class="external free" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/07/official-vmware-virtual-san-blog-index.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/07/official-vmware-virtual-san-blog-index.html</a></li>
<li>VMware Virtual SAN Quick Monitoring & Troubleshooting Reference Guide - <a class="external free" href="https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/25934-102-2-34323/VMware_Virtual_SAN_Quick_Monitoring_Reference_Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/25934-102-2-34323/VMware_Virtual_SAN_Quick_Monitoring_Reference_Guide.pdf</a></li>
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Community Blogs:</div>
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<li>Troubleshooting, Automation, Nested ESX: <a class="external free" href="http://virtuallyghetto.com/category/vsan" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">http://virtuallyghetto.com/category/vsan</a></li>
<li>All kinds of things VSAN: <a class="external free" href="http://vmwa.re/vsan" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: inherit !important;">http://vmwa.re/vsan</a></li>
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Presentation Notes</div>
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Book:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right - by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster</li>
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Presentation covers Microsoft SQL and Oracle</div>
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Microsoft SQL people don't want to talk to Oracle people, and vice a versa - we are going to do it anyway</div>
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DBAs shouldn't care about the infrastructure. You don't care about the Cell Phone towers, you just expect them to work.</div>
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Number #1 issue that causes BSOD - drivers. With Virtualization, the driver depth is minimized</div>
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Virtualization is an incredible return on investment</div>
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Able to adjust resources with a click of the button (assuming there are additional shared virtual resources available to add)</div>
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If you adjust memory, you will need to restart the database to take advantage</div>
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"Any Resource, Any Server, At Any Time" in the (Pool)</div>
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Is your database too "Big" to virtualize? - doubt it</div>
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Virtualization has about a 5% overhead, but if your setup doesn't have at least 5% wiggle room, you are doing something wrong anyway</div>
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Management expectations - need to set correctly, and explain the costs and what it actually will take</div>
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If asked to meet an SLA, make sure it can be meet, and set the expectations. If you can't meet it, let management know as soon as possible.</div>
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Optimize optimize optimize - the defaults on servers, applications, etc are not tuned for performance</div>
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Read the documentation from all vendors!</div>
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Professional Association of SQL Server - join it if you are doing SQL Server - <a class="external free" href="http://virtualization.sqlpass.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://virtualization.sqlpass.org/</a></div>
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Oracle VMware users group - <a class="external free" href="http://ioug.org/VMware/" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://ioug.org/VMware/</a></div>
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<a class="external free" href="http://longwhiteclouds.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://longwhiteclouds.com/</a> - good blog</div>
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SLAs:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">two nines - 99%</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">three nines - 99.9%</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">four nines - 99.99%</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">five nines - 99.999%</li>
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If it doesn't perform will in physical, don't expect it to perform will in virtualized - garbage in, garbage out</div>
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Baseline, baseline, baseline - "there are no silver bullets"</div>
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slow storage array equates to slow database</div>
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When baselining, make sure your sample set is reasonable (seconds). A lot can happen in minutes.</div>
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SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) - good free tool to look at</div>
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"Check It Before You Wreck It" -- Jeff Szastak</div>
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"Build New" - when migrating from Physical to Virtual, take the opportunity to "Build New"</div>
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VMware <a class="external free" href="http://tsanet.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background: url(data:image/png; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration: none;">http://tsanet.org/</a> - hardware or software - VMware can setup support calls that can include Oracle</div>
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If your OS and database don't know they are virtualized, don't tell them</div>
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Understand your workload types - if you don't know, how can you tune and configure??</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Also allows you to combine VMs that may have offset time workloads (gaining more for my investment)</li>
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Seperate development from test from production environments</div>
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Trivia:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">First use of the word "Nerd" - Doctor Seusse (If I ran to the zoo)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Americans eat the most food on Super Bowl Sunday</li>
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Have more VMs than less. Giant VMs with everything in it are harder to manage then smaller VMs. Better resource management and tuning options.</div>
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Storage - Spindle count and RAID configurations still rule</div>
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Know where your bottlenecks are at</div>
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VMFS vs RDM - perform about the same, valid reasons for using either</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">VMware recommends VMFS unless you have a really good reason</li>
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Thin Provision - first write penalty - use Thick Eager Zeroed for performance</div>
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Microosft recommends 1 datafile per CPU</div>
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PVSCSI adapters are high-performance - use them</div>
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80% of issues are performance or storage misconfiguration</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1 issue is not enough spindles to support the app</li>
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vCPUs - count hyper threading as only .2 of a CPU (nearly nothing) when doing your calculations</div>
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Recommendation: 1-1 Ratio physical cores to vCPUs</div>
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Ntirety Rule - for SQL server</div>
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NUMA - Non-Uniform memory Access - size VMs to fit within a socket realm (ex. 128GB with 4 sockets would be <32GB optimal performance)</div>
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vNUMA (exposed to OS) is better than yNUMA (interleaving)</div>
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Swapping:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Guest VM</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">ESXi host level</li>
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Ballooning abd memory compression slows things down</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ballooning is good, don't shut it off, but there is a performance hit when it kicks in</li>
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How many VMs can fit on a host? As many as fit within active memory</div>
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Memory Reservations can lock out memory for critical VMs</div>
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Jumbo Frames are good, if you use them correctly</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Have to configure on ESX, network switch, and application</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">If there is a constriction point, breaks down. Don't set Jumbo Frames larger than smallest bottleneck in the network path</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Use VMXNET3 - reduces physical CPU overhead)</li>
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Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-84809075001901192062014-08-25T15:26:00.001-06:002014-08-25T15:26:12.153-06:00VMworld 2014 - GB Annoyance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Minor gripe: it annoys me when a speaker/presenter says '<i>GB of memory</i>" instead of "<i>Gigabyte(s) of memory</i>".<br />
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-1 point for each repeated use. Current speaker is down to -23 already...<br />
<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-29865805019837978782014-08-24T12:39:00.004-06:002014-08-24T12:39:45.003-06:00VMworld 2014 - Backpack SWAG<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As silly as this sounds, the VMworld backpack SWAG is significantly better quality than last year's, and that makes me happy. My old laptop bag was getting pretty old, so now I have a decent replacement.<br />
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Arrived at VMworld 2014 - excited to see what new things await us...Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-43291731737743780952014-07-31T20:00:00.000-06:002014-09-02T16:02:23.516-06:00VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch Release ESXi510-201407001 (2079117)<blockquote class="tr_bq">
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch Release ESXi510-201407001 (2079117)<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079117">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079117</a></blockquote>
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a>Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-83127388835777920382014-07-01T22:00:00.001-06:002014-07-06T08:57:13.008-06:00VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201407001 (2077405) <a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2077405">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2077405</a><br />
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a>
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-88859634697055619772014-07-01T22:00:00.000-06:002014-07-06T08:51:29.990-06:00VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201407001 (2078807) <a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2078807">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2078807</a><br />
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a>
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<br />Sneak Meepleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14579238635007516554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89785008337431720.post-52716311004393371412014-06-11T10:45:00.000-06:002014-07-06T08:51:41.929-06:00VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201406001 (2077359) <a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2077359">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2077359</a><br />
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Patches can be downloaded from here: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal">https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal</a>
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