Articles about VMware vSphere and related technologies. The most recent posts are on the top.
Remove the SSH warning in vSphere Client
How to disable to warning of SSH and ESXi shell.
The award for significant contribution to the VMware community.
Vmkernel Jumbo Frames on ESXi 4.1
How to enable Jumbo Frames through the CLI and GUI.
Using netstat and arp commands in ESXi 5.0
How to use the esxcli tool instead of the missing netstat and arp commands.
Test virtual network performance with Iperf
See the actual throughput from the virtual machines on the virtual switches.
SCSI Unmap VAAI command removed in ESXi 5 patch
Support for Thin Provisioned LUNs is removed in latest update.
Using vSwitch CDP with HP switches
Why CDP is very useful even on HP networking devices.
Troubleshooting ESXi networking with LLDP
Using LLDP to isolate network configuration errors.
Troubleshooting Jumbo Frames on ESXi
Avoid common mistakes when using vmkping to verify Jumbo Frames functionality.
Monitor VAAI with esxtop on ESXi 5.0
Verify that storage offload VAAI is actually used.
Activate multi-NIC vMotion in ESXi 5
The undocumented steps for enabling multi-nic vMotion network.
Optimize Storage vMotion and VM cloning with VAAI
How the VAAI clone block primitive could improve performance on an iSCSI network
The layout, sizes and purposes of the partitions of ESXi 5.0.
Increased vRAM for free vSphere Hypervisor 5.0
The latest changes in vSphere licensing.
New names for virtual hard disks in vSphere 5
The new names for the Guest Operating System disk types.
LLDP support added for vSphere 5
How to enable the Link Layer Discovery Protocol in vSphere 5.
Unclear future for the free vSphere Hypervisor
New limits in vSphere 5 for the free version of ESXi.
The new vRAM license model in vSphere 5
How the new virtual memory based licensing works in vSphere 5.
VMware HA and the mysterious recommendations for das.failuredetectiontime
Why not to change the Failure Detection Time when having multiple isolation test addresses.
Guest drive format options and Vmware Thin disks
Watch out for Windows 2008 and R2 doing non-quick formats together with Thin Disk provisioning.
Creating a virtual iSCSI target server for VMware lab
How to setup a free iSCSI target server running in a virtual machine for a vSphere lab.
