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All out of HA Slots

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Jon Owings

A few weeks a go I was moving a customer from an old set of ESX servers (not HA clustered) to a new infrastructure of Clustered ESX hosts. After building, testing and verifying the hosts we started moving the VM’s. … Continue reading →

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The Mini ESXi 4 Portable Server

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Jon Owings

Special thanks to Kevin Miller (@kevin_miller), for making sure I didn’t burn up anything and running out to Fry’s to get a new CPU when the orginal we ordered turned out to be not compatible. List of the material used … Continue reading →

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Update Manager and Isolated ESX Service Console Networks

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Jon Owings

Sometimes you may be required to run your vCenter server that has two network interfaces. One in the network it can be reached for remote desktop access and the other where it has access to the ESX servers in order … Continue reading →

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B.Y.O.P – The Alternative Vblock

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Jon Owings

In college I often would be invited to a get together that could often include the letters BYOB, Bring Your Own Beer. Sometimes a cookout would be BYOM, Bring Your Own Meat (or meat alternative for the vegetarians). So today … Continue reading →

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You might be a vDiva if…

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Jon Owings

I am avoiding a post where I have to think really hard about a topic. That makes me procrastinate and come up with even crazier ideas. I am writing this one down now. Most of these apply to me so … Continue reading →

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Operational Readiness

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jon Owings

One thing I am thinking about due to the VCDX application is operational readiness. What does it mean to pronounce this project or solution good-to-go? In my world it would be to test that each feature does exactly what it … Continue reading →

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Using Network Load Balancing with View

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Jon Owings

If you have a smaller View deployment but still want to have redundant connection servers look no further than Microsoft NLB. Solve this problem without the need for an expensive hardware loadbalancer. Will it have all of the bells and … Continue reading →

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Adaptive Queuing in ESX

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Jon Owings

While troubleshooting another issue a week or two ago I came across this VMware knowledge base article. Having spent most of the time with other brand arrays in the past, I thought this was a pretty cool solution verses just … Continue reading →

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Ask Good Questions

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jon Owings

This happened a long time ago. I arrived at a customer site to install View Desktop Manager (may have been version 2). This was before any cool VDI sizing tools like Liquidware Labs. I am installing ESX and VDM I … Continue reading →

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VMware View and Xsigo

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Jon Owings

*Disclaimer – I work for a Xsigo and VMware partner. I was in the VMware View Design and Best practices class a couple weeks ago. Much of the class is built on the VMware View Reference Architecture. The picture below … Continue reading →

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