Posts Tagged ‘vmtn’

VMTN Podcast #83, the links

The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 83 was all about ESXi with VMware’s Charu Chaubal. You can find the download here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here.

ESXi Twitpic 001 – VMware ESXi Architecture by @jtroyer
ESXi Twitpic 002 – VMware ESXi 3rd generation hypervisor architecture
ESXi Twitpic 003 – New & Improved Paradigm for ESX Management
ESXi Twitpic [...]

VMTN Podcast 80

The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 80 was an open topic. You can find the download here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here.

vSphere Security Whitepapers
Cisco NetApp VMware Announce The Industry’s First Secure Multi-Tenancy Solution
NetApp Multistore Primer
Drobo Pro on the VMware HCL soon!
VSA’s – How Many…
Drobo configuration
Drobo Review
Drobo performance testing
My homelab – Drobo
Vizioncore Backup 2.0

Meet the vExperts

A couple of months ago during the VMTN podcast I shared an idea with John Troyer and Edward Haletky. I thought that it would be cool to have a demo environment at the community booth where the vExperts could show there skills. After some discussions with the VMworld Team I decided to start building a [...]

VMware Developer Communities

The VMware Developer Communities have been overhauled and in such a way that Chip Foose would be proud. It contains all automation(SDK&API) related forums and documents including the sample code section! Another new feature I like is the “Hero Spotlight” section which currently features William Lam, Hal Rottenberg, Mike Giles and Luc Dekens. Just visit [...]

VMTN Podcast, join in on the fun

As many of you hopefully know there’s a weekly VMTN Community Podcast. VMware’s John Troyer runs the show and usually most of the active VMTN Members join in on the fun. The best shows so far, in my opinion, are the deep technical ones and especially around storage. This evening(for us Europeans at least, wednesday [...]

Nehalem CPU and TPS on vSphere

As I wrote a while ago when you enable virtualized MMU for your virtual machine it enables Large Pages and Large Pages don’t get “TPS’ed”. The article I wrote was specifically related to AMD cause it was the only platform at the moment for which enhanced memory techniques where used. (AMD RVI!) As of vSphere [...]

Disk latency and esxtop

We just had a very good and interesting VMTN Podcast on virtualized MS SQL performance and best practices. One of the questions was about disk performance. Hemant Gaidhan talked about esxtop and how to discover possible performance issues, and specifically mentioned latency. I’ve never really looked into this section of esxtop and did a quick [...]

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