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Dependent hardware iSCSI adapter on ESXi5

25 May, 201225 May, 2012 Gabrie van Zanten 10 Comments esxi, VMware

Most customers I work with use FC connections to their EMC storage we’ve sold them, but today I was with a customer who has a complete DELL setup and used iSCSI to connect to their Dell Equallogic PS4000E storage over a set of Dell PowerConnect switches.  I was asked to configure the dependent hardware iSCSI […]

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Performance test of Iomega StorCenter PX4-300R

27 September, 201127 September, 2011 Gabrie van Zanten 2 Comments performance, storage, VMware

End of 2009, beginning of 2010 I put an Iomega StorCenter IX4 to the test and published the results in these two blogposts: Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega StorCenter IX4-200D and part 2. Recently Iomega sent me their new StorCenter PX4-300R for testing purpose and I was happy […]

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Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi

26 July, 2010 Gabrie van Zanten 5 Comments esxi, VMware, Whats New

With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this already at VMworld 2009, but somehow many have been triggered to finally make the switch and install ESXi on their ESX […]

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VMware vSphere 4.1 released – What’s new?

13 July, 201013 July, 2010 Gabrie van Zanten 6 Comments VMware

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and we can finally start blogging about VMware vSphere’s latest features. In the next few days I will post a number […]

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Converting vscsiStats data into Excel charts

18 February, 201012 March, 2010 Gabrie van Zanten 21 Comments ESX, performance, VMware

Some time ago I wrote a posting on how to use vscsiStats to gather even more data from your VMs and their SCSI performance ( See: Using vscsiStats – the full how-to). Last week I received an e-mail from Paul Dunn who had written an Excel macro that can read the output from the vscsiStats […]

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