In case you missed it, this week kicked off the public voting for sessions at VMworld 2011. I tell all my customers that haven’t been to VMworld in the past that they are really missing out on a great learning opportunity. Between the technical breakout sessions, and the hands-on labs, the peer collaboration is worth it alone. Connecting and talking to other engineers to understand what they are doing in their environment and how it might differ from yours is priceless.
Voice your opinion and cast your vote today to help shape the content for this upcoming VMworld!
Vladan Seget – VMware HA Slot sizes – This post is an extension of blog discussions around VMware vSphere HA slot sizing. If you are not familiar with the topic, start with Duncan Epping’s article HA Deepdive and review the VMware HA Admission Control section of the vSphere Availability Guide.
Jakob Fabritius Norregaard – vSphere Network Ports Diagram – Here’s a great network diagram showing used ports in a vSphere environment made by Dudley Smith. Go here for current version as of 2011.05.10. I had to look for it a bit so thought I’d post the link.
Jason Boche – VMware vSphere SiteSurvey Plug-in – VMware SiteSurvey is a free add-on utility which analyzes vSphere ESX and ESXi hosts for VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) compatibility. My good friend Eric Siebert wrote in depth about this piece of software and its capabilities just after the GA launch of VMware vSphere in 2009.
Eric Siebert – Deleting virtual machine snapshots without wasting disk space – Taking snapshots of your virtual machines (VMs) is a useful way to preserve and restore VM configurations. But proper management is needed to avoid performance problems. In this tip, we’ll explore advanced snapshot management topics. (For a review of snapshot basics or review how VMware snapshots work, see my previous tip.)
Kendrick Coleman – Configuring VMware View Events Database with SQL Server – I’ve been rebuilding my VMware lab and decided to do it all right this time by having a centralized database server, and I choose SQL Server 2008 R2. I have configured vCenter, VUM, and View Composer to all use SQL 2008 R2 with windows authentication, then it came time to get the View Events database up and running. Jason Langone has a great article on setting up the events DB using SQL Express, but there isn’t a good walkthru for regular SQL server setup. So here we go.
