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LACP, SR-IOV, Elastic Ports

LACP, SR-IOV, Elastic Ports

including LACP support, SR-IOV, Elastic Ports, BPDU Filters, and new Scalability. All of the technology presented here has been verified and “tinkered with” in the Wahl Network lab on VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build 613838 (beta).

This deep dive series will go into all of the awesome goodies that are baked into […]

vMotion Enhancements for vSphere 6

Upcoming new vMotion features:

vMotion across vCenter Servers (VCs) vMotion across virtual switches: Virtual Standard Switch (VSS), Virtual Distributed Switches (VDSs) vMotion using routed vMotion networks Long-distance vMotion for use cases such as: Permanent migrations (often for Datacenter expansions, acquisitions, consolidations) Disaster avoidance SRM and disaster avoidance testing Multi-site capacity utilization Follow-the-sun scenarios Onboarding onto […]

Determine the Zeroed status of Thick Lazy disk

this article there is a potential write performance impact on the first-write to each block in the Lazy Zeroed Thick Disk. If you for some reason would like to know how large part of the Thick Lazy that has been zeroed of a production virtual machine and how much remains to be zeroed later you […]

VMware Thin and Thick Client Provisioning: A Brief Overview

Thick and thin client provisioning is not as different as you might first assume, both operate by running a client application on the desktop – which then sends and receives data over the network to the server. By going through the differences with you here, we will hopefully help you see how one might benefit […]

What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?

What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?

You may never need to know the file names or locations for your virtual machine files. Virtual machine file management is performed by VMware Workstation. If the behind the scenes file structure is not interesting to you, skip this section.

A virtual machine typically is stored on […]

What’s new in vSphere 6.0

Straight from PEX 2015 in San Francisco, here’s a recap of the February 2 announcement for what’s new in vSphere 6.0

Platform Enhancements:

128 vCPUs per VM 4TB of RAM per VM 64 hosts per cluster 12TB of system RAM 480 vCPUs per host Hot-add RAM is now vNUMA aware WDDM 1.1 GDI acceleration […]

Restart all services on ESXi through SSH

When you are not able to connect ESXi server to vCenter, or when you cannot connect to ESXi server from VI client it may be necessary to restart the management agents on ESX or ESXi host. In today’s post called How to restart management agents on ESX or ESXi host we will learn this.

You […]

VSPHERE 6 and VSAN

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How to mount or unmount NAS/NFS share on ESXi

How to mount or unmount NAS/NFS share on ESXi

 

First you need to have the vmkernel port group configured for the NAS/NFS. To mount NAS/NFS share on esxi: esxcfg-nas -a -o <nas_server_hostname or ipaddress> -s <nas share name> <NAS_datastore_name>To unmount NAS/NFS share on esxi:esxcfg-nas -d <NAS_datastore_name>Other options available in ESXi are:~ # esxcfg-nas –helpesxcfg-nas […]

VM Operations in ESXi 4.1 ESXi 5.5 Command Line

List all the VMs running on the host:~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvmsVmid Name File Guest OS Version Annotation612 vm_name1 [datastore] vm_name1/vm_name1.vmx rhel6_64Guest vmx-10633 vm_name2 [datastore] vm_name2/vm_name2.vmx rhel6_64Guest vmx-10646 vm_name3 [datastore] vm_name3/vm_name3.vmx rhel6_64Guest vmx-10647 vm_name4 [datastore] vm_name4/vm_name4.vmx rhel6_64Guest vmx-10664 vm_name5 [datastore] vm_name5/vm_name5.vmx rhel6_64Guest vmx-10To poweroff a VMvim-cmd vmsvc/power.off 612 #here 612 is a vim idTo poweron a […]