Storage tips on VMware vSphere Storage (Mostafa Khalil)
EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To VMware MGMT VM EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To… VMAX3: Creating the RDM Volumes and Associated Masking View This is an example Masking View for a two node ESXi cluster on which the VMAX management virtual machine shall reside: 1. Create a Port Group with…
Have you ever wanted to find out if an ESXi host is booted from PXE? In ESXi 5.0 and later, a handy CLI based tool, bootOption, can help you accomplish this task. This is available at the DCUI or via SSH. The syntax to use is: # bootOption -p The output can be one of…
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I will deliver vSphere 5 Storage Boot Camp at Partner Exchange 2012 in Las Vegas on Sunday February 12, 2012. The session is free to Partner Exchange 2012 attendees and will be 4 hours long starting at 8:30am Here is the session details: VMware vSphere 5 – Storage Troubleshooting Learn basic to advanced levels of…
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Dell has completed the certification of EQL Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) version 1.0.9 with vSphere 5.0 earlier this month. I attached the installation and user guide here (Dell-110-6093-EN_MEM_Guide_50) I will have a chapter in my book dedicated to 3rd party multipathing plugins which includes this plugin.
I will be presenting the following session at VMworld 2011 in Copenhagen: VSP2376 “Performance and Scalability Enhancements in VMware vStorage VMFS 5” Scheduled for Thursday October 20 at 14:00 Additional sessions by my colleagues are listed at Yellow Bricks blog by Duncan Epping