Because this is what is most likely assigned at the virtual layer; if you Right click>Edit settings on the VM and go to the CPU's you will most likely see 4 virtual sockets, and 4 cores per socke...
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Because this is what is most likely assigned at the virtual layer; if you Right click>Edit settings on the VM and go to the CPU's you will most likely see 4 virtual sockets, and 4 cores per socket. So long as you do not go above 4 sockets the configuration should be supported.
Windows Server 2008 R2 can have upto 4 CPU sockets, each of those sockets can have multiple cores on them http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143760%28v=sql.105%29.aspx Windows Server ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 can have upto 4 CPU sockets, each of those sockets can have multiple cores on them http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143760%28v=sql.105%29.aspx Windows Server - Sockets, Logical Processors, Symmetric Multi Threading - Matthijs's blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
No, Essentials plus only allows for 2 sockets per host, you can not combine the licensing kits together. You make want to look into the Standard Acceleration kit where you can scale your envir...
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No, Essentials plus only allows for 2 sockets per host, you can not combine the licensing kits together. You make want to look into the Standard Acceleration kit where you can scale your environment. The standard kit comes with licensing for 6 processors and would only require you to purchase another 6 standard licenses to meet your goal VMware vSphere with Operations Management Standard Acceleration Kit Check the features of each version and find what best fits you: Compare Editions of vSphere with Operations Management | United States
The network adapters that are used for virtual switches do not have IP addresses, they merely pass data up to the physical network. Your VMkernels will have IP addresses, you can view that in ...
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The network adapters that are used for virtual switches do not have IP addresses, they merely pass data up to the physical network. Your VMkernels will have IP addresses, you can view that in the Configuration>networking tab From there it should show you IP addresses of VMkernels and what nic they are using to pass traffic to the physical network.
The controller with the 1GB of cache should be able to help you out quite a bit, and generally perform better than on board integrated raid. Aside from that, you may want to look into faster driv...
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The controller with the 1GB of cache should be able to help you out quite a bit, and generally perform better than on board integrated raid. Aside from that, you may want to look into faster drives, or a raid controller that can do SSD caching
I have seen some goof's in 5.0->5.1 going from the vendor image to the standard image, but have not experienced that with 5.5. VUM and Patching should work the same for both, as at the core, the ...
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I have seen some goof's in 5.0->5.1 going from the vendor image to the standard image, but have not experienced that with 5.5. VUM and Patching should work the same for both, as at the core, the only difference is the vendor has additional drivers.
VMnic's attached to switches only are acting as uplinks, they generally never have an IP because they are not doing any kind of interface management or routing.
generally the Standard ISO will work with most servers, however using the customized ISO by IBM may have more up to date drivers or more advanced drivers packaged in them. I tend to use the vendo...
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generally the Standard ISO will work with most servers, however using the customized ISO by IBM may have more up to date drivers or more advanced drivers packaged in them. I tend to use the vendor ISO whenever possible as there are generally additional drivers packaged into it, saving me time later on.
Without changing the raid level to something that is more adjusted for higher IOPS such as raid 10 the other possibilities are Update the firmware on the card, and apply the driver package to ...
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Without changing the raid level to something that is more adjusted for higher IOPS such as raid 10 the other possibilities are Update the firmware on the card, and apply the driver package to ESXi both can be found here http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9271-8i.aspx#tab/tab4 Ensure that the 1GB Caching is enabled on the card According to this: MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i your card has 1GB of cache which will most likely help improve performance greatly for raid 5, generally you do this during boot in the BIOS of the card You could also replace the drives with Faster drives, however that would cost money. Keep in mind that larger GB does not mean better performance, as it usually comes down to IOPS
You can install the Update Manager on a windows host(e.g. file server) and point it to your vCenter, currently VUM is not on the appliance even on 5.5.
Keep in mind that on a VM the host resources are shared, unlike when running one machine on box and letting it have access to ALL resources, they are scheduled. Keep in mind that RAID 5 carrie...
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Keep in mind that on a VM the host resources are shared, unlike when running one machine on box and letting it have access to ALL resources, they are scheduled. Keep in mind that RAID 5 carries a write penalty because it must also write and additional parity bit to extra disks. You may want to google or visit the manufactures site for the latest ESXi driver and firmware on the card. Having an out of date Firmware or driver can hinder performance significantly.
Are we talking about the vCenter virtual appliance or another appliance? If this is for vSphere/ESXi you may want to read into lockdown mode Lockdown Mode
Are you asking to set a specific fail-over host that any VM's will boot to if an HA event occurs? If so you can do it in the HA settings by right clicking on the cluster and going to HA ...
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Are you asking to set a specific fail-over host that any VM's will boot to if an HA event occurs? If so you can do it in the HA settings by right clicking on the cluster and going to HA Keep in mind however this is not the most optimal way of doing HA from a resource perspective as VM's will only run on that host if an HA even occurs.
The latest driver, the one for 5.5 is actually 6.603.55.00.1, you may want to attempt packaging this one http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9341-4i.aspx
For an environment that size and if SQLEXPRESS is the DB I would choose an in place upgrade, however if you are on 4.1 make sure the database is on a supported version such as 2008 R2 for 5.5. ...
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For an environment that size and if SQLEXPRESS is the DB I would choose an in place upgrade, however if you are on 4.1 make sure the database is on a supported version such as 2008 R2 for 5.5. Additionally you could always deploy the Linux Appliance which runs an embedded database and does not require any microsoft licensing, the draw back is that vum would need to be installed on a windows server. As for performance metrics you can export those out of vCenter to keep as a record should you choose a new stand alone vcenter, or vcenter appliance
the vDS can in fact pass iSCSI and NFS traffic, however you do need to create the vmkernel on the VDS. You can find more about it here vSphere Documentation Center
It depends how you are utilizing them. Having more up links does not necessarily mean better performance if you are not shaping the network correctly. If you have 4 nics you may want to look i...
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It depends how you are utilizing them. Having more up links does not necessarily mean better performance if you are not shaping the network correctly. If you have 4 nics you may want to look into a setup like this, NOTE: this is a speculation I am not sure what your actual environment may be If everything is local you may want to do 2x Management up links -1 Onboard -1 pci card 2x VM network -1 Onboard -1 pci card This method would provide the most redundancy if a PCI card fails while providing decent throughput. What licensing level are we talking about? Do you have any network storage?