I had this question coincidentally two times of the last 3 weeks and I figured that it couldn’t hurt explaining it here as well. The question on the VMTN community was as follows: on 13 sec: a host which hears from none of the partners will ping the isolation address on 14 sec: if no reply from isolation address it [...]

As part of my new role within VMware Technical Marketing I am responsible for creating collateral. Most of you have seen the series of articles about the operational differences between ESX and ESXi. After finalizing the series I transformed them into a whitepaper. I guess one thing that stood out for me while going through that process is that writing [...]

Lately I have been thinking about the future of servers and more specifically the design around servers. Servers are more and more heading towards these massive beasts with all sorts of options that many might not need, but end up paying for as they are already bolted on. On the other hand you have these massive blade chassis that will [...]

A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the [...]

I’ve posted an overview of my homelab a while back and it changed a bit over the course of the last couple of months so I wanted to do an update of the article. Let me disclose first that Drobo was kind enough to provide me with a test-unit. Thanks Drobo! My Workstation which runs Windows 7 with VMware Workstation [...]

This question has come up several times over the last couple of weeks so I figured it was time to dedicate an article to it. People have always been used to monitoring memory usage in a specific way. This always worked fine until ESX(i) 3.5 introduced the aggressive usage of Large Pages. In the 3.5 timeframe that only worked for [...]

As I have been posting more regularly on the ESXi Chronicles blog I figured it made sense to make people aware of the series of articles I produced like I did last time. These are the articles I recently published, check them out as I feel they are worth reading. Also note that many of the “Ops Changes” articles will [...]