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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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  • Missing VMDK?

    Missing VMDK?

          Some how in my late night troubleshooting, I managed to delete the virtual disk (vmdk) file associated with one of my VMs. I was greeted with a very unpleasant error message attempting to power on my VM. Of course I had to try and...

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  • Simple things we forget too easy…

    Simple things we forget too easy…

         It’s been a while since I’ve done any sort of O&M, but I have always taken pride in my ability to troubleshoot difficult problems. I was having an issue with one of my Ubuntu VMs. Everything “appeared” to be fine, but in hindsight, I...

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