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Dell works closely with VMware and has many engineers who have created and maintained a range of solutions and information about VMware on Dell. VMware also has a section on its site that is dedicated to Dell and VMware.
Check out the Dell TechCenter blog, especially the Solutions by Engineers for Engineers entitled blogs for additional information around virtualization topics.
VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 and vSphere 4.0 Update 1 are comprised of four component layers. These layers are Infrastructure Services; Application Services; vCenter™ Server; and Clients. Infrastructure Services is categorized into three distinct resource areas: vCompute, vStorage, and vNetwork. Application Services provides availability, security, and scalability in features such as high availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT). vCenter Server expands on the one-to-many management role to include more access control, performance monitoring, and ease of configuration. Clients like vSphere Client and Web browsers can be used to access the vSphere data center.
How to Set Up VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance - A description of FT and a step-by-step page on enabling FT.
VMware ESX 4.0 and PowerVault™ MD3000i - An example configuration.
Steps to disable to the CTRL-ALT-DEL default behavior in vSphere 4.
Chats around VMware vSphere on the Dell TechCenter.
10-06-09 : Discuss Virtualization with Ron Oglesby
09-08-09 : VMworld Post-conference Highlights – Jeff Sullivan and Kong Yang
07-14-09 : Dell Business-Ready Configurations – Bala Chandrasekaran, Ryan Weldon, and Kong Yang
07-07-09 : Microsoft® Exchange 2007 on VMware vSphere 4.0 – Todd Muirhead and Kong Yang
06-30-09 : Dell iSCSI and Virtualization – Brian Sitton and Kong Yang
06-25-09 : Dell EqualLogic™ PS4000 Series – Kong Yang
06-16-09 : Dell and VMware vSphere 4.0 Performance – Josh Donelson, Dushyant Dwibedy, David Morse, Todd Muirhead, Kong Yang
06-02-09 : VMware vSphere – Kong Yang and Scott Hanson
Check out the Dell TechCenter blog, especially the Solutions by Engineers for Engineers entitled blogs for additional information around virtualization topics.
VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 and vSphere 4.0 Update 1 are comprised of four component layers. These layers are Infrastructure Services; Application Services; vCenter™ Server; and Clients. Infrastructure Services is categorized into three distinct resource areas: vCompute, vStorage, and vNetwork. Application Services provides availability, security, and scalability in features such as high availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT). vCenter Server expands on the one-to-many management role to include more access control, performance monitoring, and ease of configuration. Clients like vSphere Client and Web browsers can be used to access the vSphere data center.
Featured Articles
How to Set Up VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance - A description of FT and a step-by-step page on enabling FT.
VMware ESX 4.0 and PowerVault™ MD3000i - An example configuration.
Steps to disable to the CTRL-ALT-DEL default behavior in vSphere 4.
Chats around VMware vSphere on the Dell TechCenter.
10-06-09 : Discuss Virtualization with Ron Oglesby
09-08-09 : VMworld Post-conference Highlights – Jeff Sullivan and Kong Yang
07-14-09 : Dell Business-Ready Configurations – Bala Chandrasekaran, Ryan Weldon, and Kong Yang
07-07-09 : Microsoft® Exchange 2007 on VMware vSphere 4.0 – Todd Muirhead and Kong Yang
06-30-09 : Dell iSCSI and Virtualization – Brian Sitton and Kong Yang
06-25-09 : Dell EqualLogic™ PS4000 Series – Kong Yang
06-16-09 : Dell and VMware vSphere 4.0 Performance – Josh Donelson, Dushyant Dwibedy, David Morse, Todd Muirhead, Kong Yang
06-02-09 : VMware vSphere – Kong Yang and Scott Hanson
VMware on Dell Quick Links
Performance and Sizing of VMware – There has been a range of performance studies, including some competitive tests, performed by Dell over the last several years. Included are summaries of the findings and links to the full studies.
VMware Management – Covers key areas of Dell™ OpenManage™ suite integration and use of enterprise features to maintain VMware server farms. There are also links to scripts and VMware SDK programs. This section also contains a script to help you automate VMware ESX server patches.
VMware on PowerEdge™ Servers – Dell provides a set of tested and validated servers and storage that have been verified to work by engineering.
VMware Demonstrations – The Dell TechCenter team is proud to provide the following demonstrations for your use. Use these demos to introduce new concepts to your teams, or show the decision makers in your organization why these technologies are necessary.
Microsoft Exchange Server on VMware - Dell engineers have worked with Microsoft Exchange to investigate how high-performance applications can be run in virtual machines.
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| brian_summers | DRAC IP on ESX Host | 1 | Jul 24 2009, 11:53 AM EDT by Nepharim | ||
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how does one determine and/or rest the IP for a DRAC 5 when ESX is running on the box?
clarification... * DRAC5 in 2970 * ESX4 classic (not ESXi) |
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| brian_summers | PERC controller does not export the SCSI serial | 2 | Apr 15 2009, 3:30 PM EDT by Nepharim | ||
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Here's a stumper for anyone that can take a stab at it.
Any ideas? ________________________________________ From: Mark Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:30 AM To: McNeal, William Subject: RE: 2950 Question What I have found is that the PERC controller does not export the SCSI serial number so RDM's are not available. Is this still true with the PERC 6i or can it export the SCSI serial number?
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| SeanO'Brien | Config for cpu and memory Settings in 'Edit Settings' & Resource Pools | 0 | Jul 28 2008, 11:17 AM EDT by SeanO'Brien | ||
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Wondering if there is a good detailed explanation of the settings for CPU and memory when set directly on a VM and when set on the resource pool a VM belongs to. What does each really mean and why would certain settings/changes do different things.
Example: We have a R900 (4) socket quad code w/128 GB hosting about 15 SAP Dev and QA VM's. I have created 3 separate Resource Pools depending on utilization, etc... Also when a SAP install is occurring, I will move that machine into the 'High' Pool. Several times now we have seen the CPU within the VM Windows OS spiked at 100%, even though the VM has not ballooned and the performance for that VM on the CPU is maybe 60% when seen from the VI. Similar experience with the memory settings. The only fix I found (and I tried uping the CPU reservation to 20480 mhz for this one machine) was to shutdown the machine and change the CPU setting under 'Edit Settings' to 4 (it was set at 2). This made all the difference. Why would that make such a difference when the other changes and Resource Pool membership basically did nothing? I have also seen the same thing under the memory settings. Why would these changes be needed when the Resource Pool says the greater amount that I then change the VM to manually? Anyone else see these type of issues? Am I just not configuring from the beginning? Am I expecting too much of the dynamic changes that can be made in ESX? Thanks!
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