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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of 100% Virtualized |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Friday, 02 July 2010 13:54 |
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Seeing as how this weekend marks USA's 4th of July, and in patriotic fashion, I'll quote part of our Declaration of Independence. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of 100% Virtualized.
As a vitualization admin, we have the tendancy to try and virtualize everything we can get our hands on. Whether it's NT4, Linux, Oracle, SQL, Exchange, Domino, SAP, etc. nothing stands that can't be virtualized in our minds. Thus, alot of us share the common goal to pursue a 100% virtualized datacenter.
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Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 15:05 |
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Read more... [Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of 100% Virtualized]
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Why vSphere Needs NFSv4 |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Friday, 25 June 2010 10:00 |
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If you are familiar with my blog, you'll know that I'm a huge advocate of the NFS protocol with VMware. I firmly believe that over the next few years, ethernet storage will be the front-runner of VMware deployments. Most of the people that I talk to that have a Fiber-Channel (FC) based environment are in large enterprises that made the switch to VMware but used their existing FC environment. Which is great, but now is the time everyone is starting to virtualize their whole environment and money talks when it comes to scalability. I won't go into Ethernet vs FC because there is boat loads of information already out there, but let's talk about NFS. NFS is that guy sitting in the corner that doesn't get much attention, but NFS is making headway into the marketplace. VMware must be taking notice because of the ability to see NFS stats in ESXTOP in the latest vSphere Update.
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 October 2012 16:35 |
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Read more... [Why vSphere Needs NFSv4]
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Keep the VCP Distinguished |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Monday, 21 June 2010 08:59 |
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I ran across this LinkedIn discussion in the VMware Certified Professionals group the past week and thought this was something worthy to get out to anyone else who hasn't read the thread.
The title of the thread is "Recruiters that offer a low rate for VMware/VCP engineers.... What to do?". I'm sure all of us have seen short-term and long-term contracts that are considered well below the pay grade that the certification deserves. The only way a VCP can get what he/she deserves is by figuring out your own self worth..
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 10:14 |
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Read more... [Keep the VCP Distinguished]
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VMware vExpert 2010 - Muchas Gracias! |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 10:41 |
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As many of my followers know on twitter, the past two weeks have been filled spending massive amounts of time on a new adventure in my life. I got married on June 5th, 2010 to my lovely wife Lauren (http://kennyandlaurenswedding.com, http://laurenmolter.com, @VideoEditorGirl). Last Friday night I was finishing up the rehearsal dinner at an awesome local Italian restaurant and I took a few minutes to check my blackberry while a group of friends and I were heading out for a few more drinks. I saw an email from John Troyer that said "VMware vExpe...", I checked it immediately and saw that I've been awarded the title of VMware vExpert 2010. I capped off the rest of the night, got married the next day, and I've been on my honeymoon in Maroma Beach Mexico for the past week (hence the muchas gracias). Still can't stop saying little bits of spanish because I've been doing it for the past week.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 13 June 2010 11:11 |
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Read more... [VMware vExpert 2010 - Muchas Gracias!]
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vSphere Performance Tweaks |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:06 |
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This is a new release today from VirtualFilters, a donater to VMware KB articles. Some of the tweaks listed are good ones.
Read vFilters: Maximum Performance Tweaks
Here are my thoughts on things I would feel safe about doing. These changes wouldn't start pegging more resources (as some will if you look at the Document), but actually free up resources in your environment.
Network
- Virtual Hardware 7 - This is a must for everyone putting VMs on vSphere
- Virtual MMU - The actual default is set to "Automatic", not disabled for virtual machines. Only enable hardware MMU if you have newer processors like Nehalems that can utilize the performance boost. TPS will suck, but once memory starts becoming over-committed, regular TPS will start taking place.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:54 |
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Read more... [vSphere Performance Tweaks]
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Running Free ESXi License on ESX |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Friday, 14 May 2010 09:42 |
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Someone on the VMTN forums was able to use the Free ESXi license with ESX. Not sure if this is a bug or not, but as @mattliebowitz has pointed out, it is against the EULA.
Here is how it's done.
- Go get your Free ESXi4 License Key.
- Go download the ESX4 DVD as part of your vSphere Trial.
- Start Installing ESX4
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Last Updated on Friday, 14 May 2010 13:58 |
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Read more... [Running Free ESXi License on ESX]
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vSphere Update 2 and Minor Issues |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:26 |
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There hasn't been much talk (and sometimes that can be a good thing) about the quiet release of Update 2 to different products of the vSphere suite. There have been some pitfalls already, but it seems as if most of them have been addressed relatively quickly.
vSphere products with new updates:
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Last Updated on Friday, 18 June 2010 09:12 |
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vSphere HA Options for VMs and Their Results |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 11:06 |
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This morning, The Saffa Geek (@GreggRobertson5) sent out a tweet asking "Anyone know if one of my hosts in my ha cluster goes down will ha power on already powered off vm's from my down host?"
I decided to do some testing with HA and the different options for virtual machines with their end result.
Here is my vCenter environment. I have 2 hosts, 1 ESX and the other ESXi. You can see from this screenshot, the VMs that are powered off and powered on the ESXi host that will fail in my lab.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 14:13 |
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Read more... [vSphere HA Options for VMs and Their Results]
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Top 10 Free vSphere Tools Presentation |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 13:11 |
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Over the past 2 months I had been testing out alot of tools covered in my A List of FREE VMware vSphere Tools blog post. I released a blog post on 5/17/2010 of the Top 10 Free vSphere ESX Tools and Utilities.
On 5/21/2010, I gave a presentation to the Kentuckiana Virtualization Users Group on the Top 10 Free tools.
You can download the full presentation or watch it below.
Thanks for all that came to the presentation and a another huge thanks goes out to the developers of all the free tools.
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 October 2012 17:05 |
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Read more... [Top 10 Free vSphere Tools Presentation]
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Top 10 Free vSphere ESX Tools and Utilities |
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Written by Kendrick Coleman
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Monday, 17 May 2010 01:00 |
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**UPDATE** 9/8/2011 - This list has been updated to Top 10 Free VMware vSphere Tools and Utilities for 2011
**Update** 7/22/2010 If you want to dive into performance, take a look at VM Advanced ISO. Free Tools for Advanced Tasks
Over the past month I have installed and tested almost every single tool on my previous blog post of A List of FREE VMware vSphere Tools. I will be doing a demo of these Top 10 tools and utilities at the next Kentuckiana Virtualization Users Group meeting on May 21st. (note: I did not put any free tools from VMware in the top 10. Why? Alot of products from VMware are awesome, I just wanted to give other vendors and contributers of the VMware community a chance to shine.)
How the scoring went down:
- Can It be used on ESX, ESXi, and vCenter?
- 1 point for standalone ESX, 2 points for standalone ESXi, and 2 points for vCenter
- Ease of installation
- 1 to 5 points on ease of installation
- Feature Rich
- 1 to 5 points based how many different features are included
- How well does it perform
- 1 to 5 points based on how well it's main feature performs
- Can this be used as an everyday tool?
- 1 to 5 points based on if it's a one time use or if it can be used everyday. More points for an everyday tool
Without further ado, here are your Top 10 Free products to use with VMware vSphere
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 October 2012 16:16 |
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Read more... [Top 10 Free vSphere ESX Tools and Utilities]
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