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tom howarth

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Guru (22,531 points)
Web Site:
http://www.planetVM.NET
Member Since:
Jul 25, 2005
Last Logged In:
May 23, 2012 10:43 PM
Occupation:
Nexenta Sales Engineer
Biography:
MCSE, CCEA, VCP, vEXPERT 09/10/11
Company:
Nexenta
Location:
UK, Lancashire
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Please consider the use of the Helpful or correct buttons to award points to those Answers you found useful or correct. Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert VMware Communities User Moderator Blog: http://www.planetvm.net Contributing author on VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment Contributing author on VCP VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410
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tom howarth replied to Where do I find which nic is attached to a VM?

"Technically speaking, your VM NICs are not actually connected to any Physical NIC, they are connected to a Virutal Switch, which in turn is"

in VMware ESXi 5 - 5 replies
23 hours ago
tom howarth modified VSA (vmware vsphere storage appliance)

"Is there any recommedation from vmware to keep only vsa vm's on those hosts those are in the vsa cluster or we can keep the other vm's also"

in VMware vSphere™ Storage - 0 bookmarks
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to VSA (vmware vsphere storage appliance)

"remember the VSA is just another VM,  it all depends on the performance of the particular VM.  but AFAIK there is no restrictions.  in fact"

in VMware ESXi 5 - 3 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to EMC CX4-480 latency issues

"What  Qlogic cards,  a lot of the older ones dropped off the HCL. when they moved from 4 to 5"

in VMware vSphere™ Storage - 6 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to Can you do a cold p2v to Esxi 5.0?

"You are running the Exchange on the same server as the Domain Controller???  even so there is no issue with creating a new DC in the site. "

in Converter - 10 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to vSphere 5 network configuration with 10 nics and two physical HP switches

"Artur,   one small question,  what would you recommend as the traffic balancing algorithm for the VMnetwork. also why not have a DVS for t"

in VMware vSphere™ vNetwork - 50 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth modified VMWare 5 and CPU Usage  (CPU Locks)

"Hi   I have been told that VMWare needs xx CPU available for every CPU cycle, and thereby you may decrease performance many times, by addi"

in Virtual Machine & Guest OS - 0 bookmarks
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to VMWare 5 and CPU Usage  (CPU Locks)

"Further as this question relates to MS SQL and not an Oracle product I am moving it to a more appropiate forum."

in Virtualizing Oracle - 10 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to VMWare 5 and CPU Usage  (CPU Locks)

"No that is not what I said,  what I said is that as a rule of thumb I deploy Guest with a single vCPU, those machines that need more than 1"

in Virtualizing Oracle - 10 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to EMC CX4-480 latency issues

"now wanting to teach granny to suck eggs, but have you looked at the San Fabric switches for errors.  you could need a Brocade firmware upgr"

in VMware vSphere™ Storage - 6 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to VMWare 5 and CPU Usage  (CPU Locks)

"I am not entirely sure what you are asking, but since VI3.5 the pCPU to vCPU requirement have been relaxed.  there is no need for a 4 vCPU g"

in Virtualizing Oracle - 10 replies
2 days ago
tom howarth replied to Can you do a cold p2v to Esxi 5.0?

"Welcome to the forums   Why exactly do you want to p2v this box,  remember ADS is a distibruted database.  just create a new AD Controller"

in Converter - 10 replies
3 days ago
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