Last week I needed to prepare a small VMware test environment for my customer as I did a my customized VMware ICM training 🙂 I prepared nested ESXi VMs based on two main steps: Creating a VM with ESXi OS and adding two parameters into VM vmx file. Reconfiguring Virtual Switch/Port Group where ESXi VM will be connected.… Read More »
I was going to write this post a long time ago and I postponed it many times. Today during a configuration of VMware VMs backup by NetBackup for my customer, again I have met a situation where ESXi hosts were added using IP address. In this post let's discuss pros and cons of this design considerations. ESXi hosts… Read More »
Within last year, I have been asked by my customers or I have had to do the troubleshooting many times why ESXi hosts 5.x need much time to boot. More often the reason of slow booting were caused by RDM used by Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS). Why? Because the active node has persistent SCSI reservation on the attached… Read More »
