NFS - Thin Backups to NFS Volumes Require Full Declared Space
Situation:1. I only use thin VMs. 2. I'm currently using Windows 2003 Server VM, projecting an NFS volume, to back up to. One big advantage of this is NTFS compression. The problem is 2003 and...
View ArticleRe: Need an NFS VM that is efficient, reliable, and supports compression
Forward:I installed a Microsoft Server 2012 64 VM today to serve as a compressed NFS backup target to determine if they fixed the problem with large files that plagues the 2K - 2008 R2, and learned by...
View ArticleCPU Sockets and CPU
Hi everyone,i have a question,I have a PC with core i5 cpu that is with a 1 socket and 4 cores with no supporting off hyperthreading,I have installed ESXi5.5 on it, When I want to create a vm I can put...
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Re: CPU Sockets and CPU
Its a self explanatory term.You said that you have just one i5 processor socket right? So in Web client "Number of sockets" means the number of physical processors you have. On the other hand "Number...
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Re: CPU Sockets and CPU
Thank you,About the sockets and cores where I mean is at the VM hardware configuration page of a VM, There is 2 option first vCPU and then Cores per sockets, What does mean each of them? and at the...
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This is how it works.The first drop down tells you how many vCPUs you want to assign for a VM.The second drop down tells you if you want all the vCPU's you chose to be part of a single processor or...
View ArticleFree ESXi and vcenter
I'm trying to re-purpose my old ESX host to use in a non-production lab environment. And i'm running in to a problem. Starters i'm trying to use ESXi 5.5 (latest and greatest to see what's new, this...
View ArticleRe: Free ESXi and vcenter
Welcome to the Community - First off you have never been able to manage the free version with vCenter so going to an earlier version you will still not be able to manage a free instance with vCenter....
View Articleis it possible to install esxi hypervisor in dell inspiron 15R??
helloactually I am doing research in dynamic reallocation of virtual machine.I want to know if I want to implement some strategy to allocate VM to diff host then what kind of network is going to be...
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View ArticleRAM question.
Hi, I have a Dell R910 with 160GB of RAM but my esxi host only shows 147GB. Is this a Dell issue or VMware?
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Where does your ESXi show this value?What's the output of running esxcli hardware memory get on the local ESXi command line?
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Thank you for answering so quickly but I just got off the phone with Dell and it seems the server was order with some kind of memory redundancy. That's why all 160GB is not available.
View ArticleLatency/throughput differences Perform(Windows), VMWare and Storage
Hi everyone, I am currently investigating performance issues for a customer of mine regarding SQL Server performance within VMWare vSphere 5.0 RU3. We have the following hardware when it comes to the...
View ArticleSupport Emulex 554FLB FlexibleLOM FlexFabric vSphere 5.5
Hi everyone, I searched the HCL for Emulex HP Branded 554FLB FlexibleLOM FlexFabric support within vSphere 5.5, but could not find it. Is it still supported, or not? And is there a document I can find...
View ArticleRe: Is it possible virtualize a real-time OS in ESXi?
Hello Cyberfed27, Have you ever done Snapshots or vMotion of your RT-VM? And if yes, have you observed issues during a Snapshot creation or a vMotion operation? Thank you very much in advance. Uwe
View ArticleRe: Is it possible virtualize a real-time OS in ESXi?
You can always set processor affinity to ALL VM's. Ie. 8-core host has 7 1 vCPU VM with processor affinity set. This kinda defeats purpose of virtualization but sometimes it is necessary. Regards, Hannu
View ArticleRe: Support Emulex 554FLB FlexibleLOM FlexFabric vSphere 5.5
Hi Do you went through this ? http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
View ArticleNewbie - licensing Question
Afternoon All, And firstly thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide. This is probably a stupid question but can anyone clarify if ESXi 5.5.0 is free to use at home, I have been...
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