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    Attaching Local Storage as a RDM

    Let me start off by stating that this is NOT supported….. I wanted to attach a local drive to a VM, but wanted the ability to move this drive to a physical Windows server at a later time without the time consuming data migration or...

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  • The Virtualization Paradigm and the transition to normalcy

    The Virtualization Paradigm and the transition to normalcy

         I have been working in the application consultancy for quite some time and it is hard to remember the last architecture or implementation I have done that has not included VMware. For many of my customers, this was the first time the virtualization concepts...

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  • Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 and ESX 4.0

    Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 and ESX 4.0

    Hal Rosenberg has released a document to the VMware Communities titled “Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4”. Hal’s document utilizes a flow chart approach in order to identify specific performance issues. For each problem covered, it includes a discussion of the possible root-causes and solutions....

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  • When good NICs go bad!!

    When good NICs go bad!!

         My team was deploying a new SharePoint portal for a customer and were seeing some strange behavior from some of our VMs. Our environment consisted of 3 BL685 servers running ESX and 9 VMs ( I know this is overkill, but our customer was...

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    Gifts from vReference

    Forbes Guthrie over at vReference has provided some absolutely necessary documents for anyone working with/designing a virtual infrastructure.

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