Tips

Tips

Selecting storage and hardware for VMware environments

• Add a GUI to Storage VMotion; watch for disk defragmentation

  Storage VMotion (SVMotion) is a new feature in ESX 3.5 that allows VMware administrators to migrate VMDKs between guest OSes. This tip explains how to add a GUI and offers one caveat.  Continue Reading

• Get remote data centers for virtual environments without SAN replication

  Learn how to use VMware Storage VMotion and the VI Perl Toolkit to set up and manage fully-functional remote data centers (RDCs) without SAN replication.  Continue Reading

• VMware and storage: Troubleshooting SAN configurations

  Rick Vanover's guide to troubleshooting SAN configurations in VMware gives pointers on documentation and more.  Continue Reading

• Server selection and VMware: Physical boxes or virtual machines?

  Find out whether or not a company should jump straight into VI3 or start with VMware Server, and how virtual servers change physical server requirements.  Continue Reading

• Services, networking and RAID: VMware Server on Linux series

  Part two of Andrew Kutz's VMware on Linux series covers VMware Services, executables, physical host servers, RAID and networking.  Continue Reading

• VMware Server how-to: Clean up snapshot files to free disk space

  Frustrated with how much space your virtual machines demand? Read this tip by Andrew Kutz and learn how to recover some virtual hard disk space.  Continue Reading

• ESX 2.5, VMFS-2 and metaLUNs -- What works and what doesn't

  Despite what you may read in frequent debates on the VMTN discussion forums, ESX 2.5 and VMFS-2 do support metaLUNs. But Windows administrators who are familiar with SAN attached storage may be disappointed about one missing metaLUN feature in ESX ...  Continue Reading