Capacity Planning
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Considerations when Virtualizing High I/O Workloads
A white paper which addresses considerations when virtualizing high I/O workloads. A server consolidation project typically starts with an assessment of the existing physical estate, resulting in not only the identification of the most suitable virtualization candidates, but conversely, those which have greater resource demands. Often these are found to be those machines that provide an organization’s enterprise-class services, such as databases, e-mail, and ERP.
USB Device Mapping to VM in ESX4 Does Not Work As Stated
With the release of ESX4, VMware documented the inclusion of a USB Host Controller device could be installed in to hosted Virtual Machine, however, when you connect a device you can not map it to a hosted Virtual Machine.
Overview of Physical to Virtual (P2V) Considerations
This Xtravirt white paper provides some pre and post considerations of P2V (Physical to Virtual) and an overview of some of the products available to accomplish P2V tasks.
Considerations when Virtualizing Active Directory
Active Directory was first previewed in 1999 and first released with the Windows 2000 Server family. As new versions of Windows Server have been introduced the functionalities are further refined. Active Directory domains are fairly standard issue with small businesses and enterprise customers and understanding how to virtualize Active Directory properly is critical to ensuring uninterrupted service during a migration as well as maintaining robust domain services post project. This Xtravirt white paper explains the considerations of Virtualizing Active Directory.
Storage Oversubscription Technologies
This Xtravirt white paper explores the Storage Oversubscription landscape which includes Linked Clones, Thin Provisioning and Deduplication with some of the benefits and disadvantages related to Storage Oversubscription.
Platespin Recon - Monitoring Stops and Options are Greyed Out
Platespin Recon monitoring can stop functioning. At the same time the GUI options are greyed out and inaccessible. This hot tip documents why this occurs and provides a solution to the problem.
VM Load Generator
Scripts to generate a load under a Windows or Linux VM
PlateSpin Recon – Copy Scenario option produces duplicate hosts
This hot tip identifies an unconfirmed bug when using the ‘copy scenario’ option with the Platespin Recon product and outlines a workaround.
Platespin Recon - Unable to Start Monitoring
Information on why monitoring will not start when using the free Inventory version of PlateSpin Recon
VMware Thin Provisioning within ESX 4.0
This Xtravirt white paper provides information about Thin Provisioning, some key features, and how it is applied to VMware Infrastructure, vSphere and ESX 4 environments.
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