March 26, 2013
Are you thin or thick? Where at?
I’m often asked about how to provision virtual machine disks. This almost always comes down to, “Should I use thick…
Tag: vSphere
February 5, 2013
Understanding VMware Slot Sizes
VMware slot sizes are an important topic if you’re concerned with how many ESXi hosts are required to run your…
December 26, 2012
VMware Ballooning explained
In my last post I explained a memory reclamation technique called Transparent Page Sharing. This post is dedicated to the…
December 17, 2012
Memory De-duplication in VMware
One of the companies I worked for got a Netapp filer and I loved the fact that it would dedupe…
December 3, 2012
Software iSCSI load balancing in ESXi 5
When you team NICs together in ESXi 5 you can pick from a variety of load balancing techniques to determine…
November 21, 2012
My VCAP5-DCA Experience
I just found out that I’ve passed the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Datacenter Administration exam and wanted to…
November 13, 2012
vSphere 5.1 SSO issues
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing a lot of customers having issues logging into vCenter after upgrading to…
November 5, 2012
HP Insight Control for vCenter
I recently tried out the HP Insight Control plugin for vCenter and was very pleased about the added functionality that…
October 30, 2012
VMware Path Masking
I’ve written posts in the past regarding LUN masking on a storage array, but it is possible to mask…
June 5, 2012
vSphere 5 AutoDeploy Basics
vSphere AutoDeploy always seemed like a lot of work to setup just to deploy a few VMware hosts, but in…