Using custom performance charts in virtualcenter
Jun 19th
As every esx engineer knowns its important to pay close attention to the core four components in a Vmware Infrastructure 3. For the most important counters see table below,referring to online documentation on performance monitoring and analysis for more information on these counters and how to interpret them.
Subsystem
Esxtop Counter
VirtualCenter Counter
CPU
%RDY
&USED
Ready
Usage
Memory
%ACTV
SWW/s
SWR/s
Active
Swapin
Swapout
Storage
ACTV
DAVG/cmd
KAVG/cmd
Commands
deviceWriteLatency and deviceReadLatency
kernelWriteLatency and kernelReadLatency
Network
MbRX/s
MbTX/s
packetsRx
packetsTx
Table 1 [...]
How to prepare for the 652 hyper-v exam
Jun 11th
This week i have done the hyper-v exam and passed with a score of 935. the exam focused highly on snapshots,clustering, virtual network. but there are also some scvmm2008 questions and some real very easy and simple basic questions.
I first read the hyper-v unleashed book. This book has also focus on scvmm 2008. This book [...]
vSphere host update utility
Jun 6th
today i upgrade my home esx host with the vSphere host update utility. The reason is simple; I was lazy and wanted to try out this tool , and my white box doesn’t recognize my cdrom so i have to do a remote install. In real enterprise environments i would recommend to do a [...]
Quick review starwind software image converter
Jun 3rd
Findings.
It’s a simple executable which does not do an install, but starts right away with the conversion wizard.
choice for 6 image formats , but no specifiek choice for hyper-v just virtual-pc (which is the same format)
only conversion no import to virtualcenter/vmm of whatsoever
This is how the wizard goes
start the StarWindConverter.exe which can be downloaded here [...]
microsoft assessment and planning tool
May 29th
Tags van Technorati: map,assesment and planning tool
today i worked with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 and wanted to blog about it but someone was faster with blogging about this tool.
you can find the original post here
i think that the advantages are.
simplicity in installing/configuring.
free of cost
disadvantages
only microsoft clients can be inspected with the tool [...]
Good whitepaper by VMware – Guide to Profile Virtualization
May 29th
Today (through twitter @Brian_Rupert) i found an interesting link on the vmware side about whitepapers especially for vdi and vmware.
you have to register on the vmware site.
the whitepapers are.
VMware View Reference Architecture
A guide to large-scale Enterprise VMware View Deployments
Guide to Profile Virtualization
Examine traditional approaches to user profiles and discover a new way to approach user [...]
home nas performance comparison
May 28th
there was already at www.vmug.nl a pointer to a nice site where some home nas (servers) are compared. i have a qnap409 which in my opinion is too slow if you get more then 5 servers on the nas.
today i was looking to the site and couldn’t find it fast enough on google.com and vmug.nl [...]
microsoft licensing and support on virtualization
May 28th
gabrie van zanten wrote a nice article on searchvmware about microsoft licensing and virtualization. it gives you a good view what you can reduce on licensing cost.
i didn’t know about the scom licenses, but i knew about the windows server licenses.
Also the support from a microsoft standpoint for microsoft products on virtualization platform is becoming [...]
vmware to bring virtualization to mobile devices in 2010 ?
May 26th
today i have seen a small blog on virtualization on mobile phone.
the thing is to make it all roaming and get the real user experience everyone wants
to keep the source the source read it here
virtualization comparison
May 26th
today i found a nice blog about virtual infrastructure products: features comparison.
i think its a nice blog, there are some things that should be worked out more like hyper-v has also limited vmdk support and the max memory depends on the microsoft windows version, that you have to pay for scvm2008 also, yearly support is [...]
