Power management is not a new topic when it comes to a hypervisor. We all know that one of the by product of virtualization is “POWER SAVINGS”. Even before you start realizing the other benefits of virtualization, power bills is the first Opex savings which makes that return on investment on virtualization speak for itself. Continue reading “Performance over Power : Make the right choice.”
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Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage using Network I/O Control (NIOC)
This post circles back to an article which I wrote in the month of January 2013, about Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage!! In that article, I gave you an overview of how you can divide the available bandwidth on a 10 GB CNA card at the hardware level toContinue reading “Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking and Storage using Network I/O Control (NIOC)”
Changing the SSH Port on the ESXi server for Cyber-Ark Integration!!
In one of my recent implementation, I got a request from a client to change the default SSH Port on the ESXi server from Port 22 to Port 63022. This was a requirement since they have a password management system from Cyber-Ark which would store and reset the root and other user passwords on the ESXiContinue reading “Changing the SSH Port on the ESXi server for Cyber-Ark Integration!!”
Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking andStorage!!
With most of my recent projects customers are moving towards the 10G converged adapters to achieve the benefits of consolidation of network and storage especially on Blade Server Architecture. I am writing this post to provide you guidelines on how you can divide a 10GB CNA card on your ESXi server to meet all the network andContinue reading “Dividing Bandwidth of a 10 GB CNA Adapter for ESXi Networking andStorage!!”
Best Practices around using RDMs in vSphere!
One of VMware’s partner engineer raised this query on an internal group. He wanted to understand and learn the best practices or the Do’s and the Don’ts while using RDM (Raw Device Mappings) Luns in a vSphere environment. I hope you being a reader understand what an RDM is and what role does it playContinue reading “Best Practices around using RDMs in vSphere!”
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