Update your bookmarks, EMC’s Chad Sakac recently started blogging and already wrote some cool article. Check out his blog and add it to your RSS reader and/or bookmarks.
A couple of outtakes:
I’ve been working with 10 joint VMware/EMC customers this week in NY, NJ and Houston (phew!), and was in Australia the week before last where [...]

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I was just reading up on the PDF’s I gathered over the last couple of weeks and found the Scalable Storage Performance pdf extremely useful. It contains a good explanation about the queue depth setting and much more….
To reduce latency, ensure that the sum of active commands from all virtual machines does not consistently exceed [...]

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Via the Dutch VMUG site I landed on a new blog, well new… for me new. This blog is maintained by Toni Verbeiren and he created an excellent article about monitoring performance stats for the scsi controllers inside a VM:

A tool is available on ESX 3.5 that creates histograms by default (and complete traces if [...]

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I can’t seem to post anything or reply:

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It seems someone is reading my blog, the forum is almost up and running again!

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We’re sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system. If you are a system administrator please click “more details” below [...]

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VMware released 4 patches yesterday:
ESX350-200806401-BG - Critical - Updates to VMkernel and hostd
ESX350-200806402-BG - General - Update to the Service Console Kernel
ESX350-200806404-SG - Security - Security Updates to WebAccess Components Tomcat and JRE
ESX350-200806405-BG - General - Update to VMware-esx-vmx
Good luck with patching!

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A couple of weeks ago I received a cool PDF via email, this week it appeared online(source blog). Check it out:
The Source PDF:
VMware has collaborated with Cisco to produce a guide for deploying VMware Infrastucture 3 with Cisco switches. This guide covers the physical and virtual data network and storage network deployment considerations for ESX [...]

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Just noticed the following topic, which definitely contains some good info about how ESX deals with memory. Thanks to Kit for clearing things up. These posts are valuable, keep ‘em coming!
a short outtake:
Basically how aggressive do you want TPS to scan for shared pages? Obviously TPS has a cost to running in terms of CPU, [...]

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