Archive for June 24th, 2008

EMC Celerra Simulator (2008-6-24)

Category: Storage, Virtualisation | 2 Comments

Chad Sakak has been cajoled into releasing the EMC Celerra SImulator.

VMotion Info In Excel 2007 (2008-6-24)

Category: ESX, Microsoft, VMware, VirtualCenter, Virtualisation | 1 Comment

ICT Freak have posted about how to use a connection to the VirtualCenter SQL Server database from Excel to display useful VMotion information.
Check out article here.

VMFS Performance (2008-6-24)

Category: ESX, VMware, Virtualisation | 1 Comment

Rich Bramley has written a very good article about VMFS storage performance advisories.

Keep Cisco Admin Guys Happy! (2008-6-24)

Category: ESX, VMware, Virtualisation | No Comments

I know what it’s like trying to make sure that my customer’s network admin guys happy when implementing Virtual Infrastructure.
Cisco & VMware have collaborated on a fantastic document that really gives some great pointers covering:

vLAN Tagging
NIC Teaming
vSwitch Scalability
Layer 2 Security Features

Used in conjunction with the Virtual Networking Concepts document it makes for compelling reading for [...]