VMware News, Views, and How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend
I posted an article in December on how the SVGA driver included with VMware Tools caused the guest VM to freeze. I referenced VMware's KB Article 1011709, which directed you to not use the SVGA drivers included with VMware Tools. KB1011709 has … [Continue reading] about Update: SVGA Drivers on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7
My Storage Basics series has been neglected for some time (sick kids, snow storms, VMware Upgrades, SAN implementations and some Cisco switch upgrades took all my free time), so let's jump right in to Part V - Cache, Controllers, and Coalescing. … [Continue reading] about Storage Basics – Part V: Controllers, Cache and Coalescing
Please join us for the upcoming Washington DC VMware® User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 10th, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest … [Continue reading] about Washington, DC VMUG – March 10, 2010
I am finishing up an installation of an EMC Clariion CX4 SAN. One of the final steps of the installation is to configure PowerPath/VE on the ESXi hosts. PowerPath/VE is EMC's multipathing extension module for VMware (and Hyper-V), designed to replace … [Continue reading] about Installing PowerPath/VE using VMware Update Manager
In parts I, II, and III of the Storage Basics series we looked at the basic building blocks of modern storage systems: hard disk drives. Specifically, we looked at the performance characteristics of disks in terms of IOPS and the impact of combining … [Continue reading] about Storage Basics – Part IV: Interface
