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VSAN, pretty sure this is the way the new EVO RAIL systems are configured and working.

Honestly i've never tried that before, sounds good though. I'll look into it. Is there a downside to just converting it to a dynamic disk though? Thanks!

it changes constantly

Backup data is sitting on the partition. We would need to stop backups for the duration of the data move which would be too long I believe. Has anyone run into issues with dynamic disks?

Hey guys, wanted to get your opinion here of the best route to go. I have a 30TB Disk attached to a server, there is a 15TB partition at the of the disk and 15TB of free space at the start of the disk. Do to the way the partition tables work you cant expand a partition backwards on a disk, so...

It's good stuff.

Interested in what setting it was for sure. I've seen other performance issues as a result of the power management settings, wonder which memory setting it was. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1018206

Congrats! I still need my first VCDX, hard to find a worthy project.

Did you recently turn on SIOC?

Nope, Odd number CPU's are great, better than rounding up and making the scheduler work harder.

Agreed, I used Autolab on my Macbook Pro for the VCAP5-DCA even.

Congrats on the VCA, another thing to note about the VCP is you can take the test BEFORE the class if you would like, but you need both a passing score on the test and classroom attendance to receive certification. If this helps at all you could study up for the test and take it, then if you...

Here's the KB for how to increase the java heap sizes http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2021302 If this is a new build out and you still have the option I'd switch to the vCSA.

How many VM's are in your environment? 8 vCPU's seems excessive and probably is detrimental if you are significantly oversubscribed on your physical cpu cores. How much memory is allocated? Are there any limits, share changes or resource pools are that in play here?

Booked through Expedia, Friday the 22nd - Friday the 29th was $2200 per person including flight.

Are vCenter and the database on the same server? As lopoetve said, is something pegged using resources?

Hotel Nikko was available and cheap. Booked two rooms today.

I'll be there again. Just got the hotel and flight scheduled today for my CTO and myself.

I doubt it's throughput over the network, it's usually the IOPS.

Good luck. I think I'll be going for my 4th VCAP at vmworld this year just for the heck of it. Still working on my VCDX. Follow the blueprint.

Me keeps backups, separate VC and Database servers. Very worst case scenario, I build out a quick normal switch, attach vcenter to it, power it on then move it back. Better than wasting 10GBE NIC ports. Additionally I'm completely dependent on vCenter with vCloud Director anyway, all the...

Full Distributed. Most environments are running blades with two 10GB NICS though, I'm a big fan of converged networking with NIOC.

Quick question, what does lets say a Cisco 2901 do that an ASA cant accomplish? I see that OSPF, EIGRP etc are available on the ASA's

^ what he said. Unless it's a monstrosity of a server you should be fine to do it sometime after hours.

Percentage reservation is the way to go assuming you have homogenous hosts within the cluster. For N+1 it's simple math If you have 3 hosts set it for 34% If you have 4 hosts set it for 26% If you have 5 hosts set it for 21% Etc The Clustering Deepdive book is amazing though, definitely read...

Yea we'll need some detailed networking info to figure out what. Sounds like vlans aren't trunked properly on a switch. Can you call VMwares Global Support Services? Not sure if you want to post all that info here

If you log into vCloud and click the Administration Tab then down to Public Addresses. Is this correct for a domain or subdomain pointed at a public IP mapped to your vCloud cell?

Provider VDC (Virtual Data Center) = The cluster or resource pool providing resources to vCloud Org VDC (Virtual Data Center) = A segmentation of the resources for one Organization. It could be that you do not have enough networks allocated to your Org VDC to create an isolated network. The guy...

Were you not the one who installed vCloud Director? Maybe you could involve that person and see what they can find. The issue can vary depending on the type of network isolation used.

Allow them to resell the service but your company can provision the end user organization

Not as far as i know, in order to be able to create Orgs and Org VDC's you need to have global administrator privileges, you'd have to give them access to everything.

Looks like I made the list! Who else got in? http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2014/04/vexpert-2014-announcement.html

Did you push the turbo button? haha Strange, i've never seen this, the only thing i can think of is something was initially delayed and then the GUI representation is catching up as what you're seeing.

Dell should have been able to explain all of this to you prior to the purchase. KVM modules are so you can control the blades using a keyboard monitor and mouse. If you plug into the KVM module you can use the panel on the front of the chassis to tab through each blade. I prefer just using the...

tada http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-RS-232-Serial-Converter-TU-S9/dp/B0007T27H8

If there's a VPN in place then mappings will stay, i don't understand the problem? If you are on a 192.168.1.0/24 network and have a mapped drive to \\192.168.1.10\share\ then you take your laptop to a 192.168.2.0/24 network why cant you still access \\192.168.1.10\share\ if there is a site to...

Wow, my exact thought. I dont think i've ever upgraded windows.

Ah, seen this quite a few times, i got a bag of guesses to pull from on these issues. haha

Used Juniper SSG5, new they are $350, on ebay you can find them for like $50

Delete all when your done is the way to go. Here's a blog post I wrote about snapshots for more info http://www.vcrumbs.com/2014/02/16/snapshot-maintenance/