At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco I received a copy of Scott Lowe’s book “Mastering VMware vSphere 4†and really did have the intention to read it as soon as I got home, but it turned out it took me quite a bit longer before I finally started reading, but today I finally finished it. […]
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StorMagic SvSAN with High Availability mirroring
Recently I had the opportunity to review StorMagic’s SvSAN software. Their current release available from their website is only compatible with VMware ESX 3.5, since my home lab is already running VMware vSphere I received the latest beta 4.1.913 which does work with vSphere. In this review I will not write on absolute performance since […]
Using the esxtop tool to identify VMware ESX memory use
As a VMware system administrator, you can monitor memory usage in the VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client). You can also potentially free up a lot of memory throughout your virtual infrastructure by using VMware’s esxtop tool with a secure shell (SSH) client to understand which virtual machines and processes are using memory and making appropriate […]