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• Best practices for vsphere 5.1

  where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

  Hello

  Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

  Best EqualLogic practices ESX

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

  If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

  If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

  Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

  KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

  Kind regards

• Best RAM for vSphere

  Hello

  I bought an Intel S2600CP4 motherboard as well as two new Sandy Bridge E5-2600 processors.

  I was thinking about the best RAM to my system, I have 64 GB of ram. What is the best option? I already bought 32 gb 1600 MHz Corsair Dominator, but now I understand that it is not a 'server' QUEENS, more than a 'gaming '. Is this a good RAM? This will affect the performance of my virtual machines running on vSphere? Should I get another 32 GB of Corsair Dominator? Or should I get 64 GB of another brand that is designed for the server? How is bad to mix RAM from different manufacturers on a single server?

  What is the best ram you would recommend for this configuration?

  Thank you!

  When selecting RAM for vSphere, I would make three key recommendations:

  1. the more the better (but be aware that the free license can only use 32 GB and will refuse to start if you have more than that)

  2. faster the better (I think that 1600 MHz is good)

  3. in the event that run absolutely stable in your system.

  Therefore, carefully test you RAM (with memtest or similar tools) for the stability of the system.

  For me, it is not sensible to recommend a specific brand. Even measuring 'server' RAM that you can have a bad chip, leading to instability. Test whether this is the most important thing.

  -Andreas

• BEST CONFIG FOR EDITING

  Hello I have adobe first CC with the imac, pegasus RAID 4 and external SSD 512 GB of hardrive. What is the best performance config for: media temp files, rush, application?

  Thank you

  Read all the articles to the Page Tweakers

• Best practices for vSphere 5 Networking

  Hi all

  Given the following environment:

  (1) 4 physical servers, each server has 16 (Gigabit) network interface cards will install vSphere 5 std.

  (2) 2 switches with SAN storage battery function

  (3) 2 Equallogic PS4000 SAN (two controllers)

  (4) 2 switches for the traffic of the virtual machine

  As for networking, I intend create some vSwitches on each physical server as follows

  1 vSwitch0 - used for iSCSI storage

  6 network adapters are associated with IP-hash, multitracks with iSCSI Storage consolidation policy. and storage load balancing is round Rodin (vmware)

  (vmware suggests to use 2 cards for 1 traget of IP storage, I'm not sure)

  2 vSwitch1 - used for the virtual machine

  6 Teamed network adapters for the traffic of the virtual machine, with the hash intellectual property policy

  3 vSwitch2 - management

  2 network cards are associated

  4 vSwitch3 - vMotion

  2 network cards are associated

  You would like to give me some suggestions?

  Alex, the standard set by the storage and VMware is used by dell for their servers and tested sound on their equipment and the publication of the document, it is recommended...

  This sound is the best practice for dell server with this model mentioned in the document to use.

  Hope that clarifies...

• SAN Best Practices for VSphere

  Hello world!

  I am new on VSphere and newest on the SAN, but I want to make all things right from the beginning. Where can I find a best practice document on the SAN and VSphere? I am looking for some recommendations on the design and deployment of SAN. What size for VMFS? How many virtual machines are recommended?

  I hope some of you can help me. Thanks for taking your time to read this

  Good bye.

  Are what types of SAN you using FC/iSCSI/NFS? Nor the means, you should architect your storage space redundant with several storage processors connected to several switches / HBA several guests. For the size of the LUN, between 400-600 GB would be a good thing and not put too many guests on a single LUN to prevent the conflict in booking iSCSI and tend to be I/O-bound and result in "fly". Standard rule is 4-6 VMs by heart and it depends on the types of loaded applications. Always start with 1 vCPU and 1024 MB of ram, started by and increase if necessary. Not recommended to use extensions to within the data store so plan accordingly. If you use RDM to sql, exchange or file server purposes plan accordingly because it has limits on the mode to use. I read VMware best practices guides and use your practices best sellers as well. Good luck in your design!

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  VMware vExpert 2009

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• Best study for vsphere VCP4 documents

  Hi, I don't have experience with vsphere wort... installed only once and looked for a few days.  I would like to take the test and pass 2 weeks because my job want me to upgrade all our servers.  Anyone think this is possible?

  I am a good studier and a pretty good test taker.   I already have a VCP3.

  If someone already took the test can you let me know what PDF files or other guides, that I should concentrate on studies there?

  Thank you for your help.

  This is a good start

  Master plan:

  http://myLearn.VMware.com/LCMS/mL_faq/2726/VMware%20Certified%20Professional%20on%20vSphere%204%20Blueprint%208.13.09.PDF

  The main Documentation set:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_vc40.html

• Best Config for readers

  I feel like I'm a freshman again, and yet I develop my own game edition. Clearly a lack of understanding, which leads to my ignorance I/O stock. I heard it suggested to use RAID 0 for a fixed return for 8 or 12 GB file, cache of media, previews and rendering files. And this same person suggested a single drive for the media. Four questions: 1: when I play back, say, a split quad in real-time with the MEP, am I not taxing media player for most of flow? RAID 0 is imposed at all, being that I do not use rendered files? 2 when reading a timeline made, is not the layer essentially a stream of data, since all the layers are made to one, so I think this might be the only drive...  3. What is the difference between previews and rendering files? I always thought they were synonymous.  4. What is media cache and what is requirements such as I/O? Should it get its own player or can she shared with another stream of data? Please note that when I say "I think that" it is ignorance that makes me think this way and that's why I'm asking someone who clearly understands the data stream. I apologize in advance if any of you are yourself repeating for the 13, 000th times the other messages that I have not read, but I bet that a plethora of other participants in the Forum will receive responses to these 4 questions answered together. Send streams of media bad readers or in conjunction with other data streams which should not be shared on the same drive can be a major bottleneck. Maybe you can list your drive configuration and you have been delegated to each disk. Since I was the one asking for help, I promise not to punish for the answer you give! (Actually I wouldn't punish you if you were the one request seeking help...)

  Felix,

  Start with the fact that sequential reading is the fastest method of getting data on a disk. Random writing is the slowest to get data on a disk, with sequential write then.

  When rendering a chronology, with lots of small files, this difinitely is written, but in some cases may be closer to randiom written, only sequential, depending on the length of transitions and effects.

  During the purification through a chronology, it is read once according to the length of yellow or green areas in the chronology is a sequential read for yellow and can approach random playback for melted areas.

  Each situation must be considered in relation to the number of available disks and the planned RAID. With a raid0 of two discs, the risk of data loss is twice higher than a single disk. What data do not really count, is that they lost, well, that is data that are easily re-created, as the file exchange and rendered files, so it is perfect feeling, due to the nature of access to these data in a stream of edition and an aspect of security, use them on a raid0.

  Multimedia files, including with tapeless processes, would often disastrous to lose. In a workflow tapebased may resume, but not in a tapeless workflow, so data security is much more important and must for that reason alone not endangered on a raid0.

  If there are a limited number of records, let's say only 3, outside the OS disc, often even better is no raid at all, but use them as a single Disk. The situation changes when you have, say 5 discs. Then a 5 drive raid5 may be the more attractive option.

  See my response makes you referring, in the light of your question, ask which of the two options was the best!

  Preview/render was used because some people speak only files render, others on the preview files, but they are one and the same.

  I realize that my disk configuration is rather rare, but this is my setup:

  C: OS and programs, Velociraptor

  D: Pagefile, temporary files, cache of media, various, 2 x 1 TB raid0

  E: projects, media, make files, 12 x 1 TB raid30

  A: Stock images and audio, 1 TB

  B: exports, 1 TB

  Hope this explains a bit and no problem to ask.

• Best Config for the new MBP 13 "retina? (decide between the RAM and the space... i7 also confirmation is worth)

  I'm in the market for a new MBP 13 "retina and I have a few questions about where max out of the unit.

  What I have... I currently have a renovated MBP 13 "retina, end 2012, 2.9 GHz, 8 GB to 128 GB of storage. I was especially pleased with this machine. I love the SSD and the quick start. The only regions that in deca for me were video compression and storage of physical disk speed. I currently have about 30 GB HD free space, but it's because I'm a Spartan and store essential files only on the MBP. Without a doubt, I want to double my storage on the following I buy (at least it will give it more leeway to work properly).

  What I do for a living... I am a writer and also a vlogger. I opted for the i7 chip because video compression is painful on the cell current, particularly H264. I use MS Word, Photoshop, Quicktime Pro and compression software to take videos and convert raw. MOV H264. So my core processing tasks, record audio/video and audio/video compression. I turn on photoshop work.

  What I would like to get...

  • MacBook Pro 13 inch with Retina display
  • 3.1GHz dual - core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz
  • Intel Iris 6100 graphics card
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 256 GB HD

  My Questions:

  1. It is better to push either the HD or RAM, up to 16 GB or 512 GB, respectively? I can't afford both. Or does save $200. (I upgraded in general on 3-year cycles)
  2. I guess that the i7 will help with the compression of various media or export tasks I have? Usually, I have to record videos using the internal camera and then export it into a format more suitable for delivery. Same with the audio (except that I capture with a blue Yeti MIC). Basically, I want to just speed up export jobs and compression. To do this, I guess the i7 and turbo boost will shine?

  Just curious if anyone has any advice... I would like to purchase today. Thank you! I'm leaning towards i7 with 256 SSD and 8 GB of RAM. Since I already have an i7 on my 2012 model, descending into the processor speed is not really sense (2.9-2.7). Nor do the same (2.9 to 2.9). I'd love to 16 GB of RAM, but it pushes the machine to near $2 K.

• New maximum config for VSphere Update 1

  Hi all!

  I take the VCP4 test tomorrow and noticed that some Configuration Maximums have changed basic to U1.  I guess that the test is based on numbers 1 before update?

  Thank you

  Steve Hurd

  Floyds buttons, IN

  It is based on the original Yes.

  Oh and good luck with it, it is MUCH more difficult than VCP3 - how did you find the course?

  StarWind Software R & D

  http://www.starwindsoftware.com

• best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  Refer to VMware best practices documentation to get the depth on the networks.

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-practices-vSphere6-0.PDF

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.PDF

  See also below article for best practices documentation relating to the different versions of vSphere.

  http://vmwareinsight.com/articles/2016/5/5798853/best-practices-for-VMware-vSphere-architecture

• Best practices for network configuration of vSphere with two subnets?

  Well, then I'll set up 3 ESXi hosts connected to storage shared with two different subnets. I configured the iSCSI initiator and the iSCSI with his own default gateway - 192.168.1.1 - targets through a Cisco router and did the same with the hosts configured with its own default gateway - 192.168.2.2. I don't know if I should have a router in the middle to route traffic between two subnets since I use iSCSI ports linking and grouping of NETWORK cards. If I shouldn't use a physical router, how do I route the traffic between different subnets and use iSCSI ports binding at the same time. What are the best practices for the implementation of a network with two subnets vSphere (ESX host network: iSCSI network)? Thank you in advance.

  Install the most common iSCSI would be traffic between hosts and

  the storage is not being routed, because a router it could reduce performance.

  If you have VLAN 10(192.168.1.0/24) iSCSI, VLAN 20 (192.168.2.0/24) ESX

  MGMT and VLAN 30 (192.168.3.0/24) comments VMs and VLAN 40 (192.168.4.0/24)

  vMotion a deployment scenario might be something like:

  NIC1 - vSwitch 0 - active VMK (192.168.1.10) MGMT, vMotion VMK (192.168.4.10)

  standby

  NIC2 - vSwitch 1 - current (VLAN30) guest virtual machine port group

  NIC3 - vSwitch 2 - active VMK1 (192.168.1.10) iSCSI

  NIC4 - vSwitch 2 - active VMK2 (192.168.1.11) iSCSI

  NIC5 - vSwitch 1 - current (VLAN30) guest virtual machine port group

  NIC6 - vSwitch 0 - MGMT VMK (192.168.2.10) standby, vMotion

  VMK (192.168.4.10) active

  You would place you on VLAN 10 storage with an IP address of something like target

  192.168.1.8 and iSCSI traffic would remain on this VLAN. The default value

  gateway configured in ESXi would be the router the VLAN 20 with an ip address of

  something like 192.168.2.1. I hope that scenario help set some options.

  Tuesday, June 24, 2014 19:16, vctl [email protected]>

• vCenter Server with vSphere Essentials best practices for small business

  I hesitated to post this thread for fear of redundancy, but I wasn't able to find an answer in previous discussions.

  I read the installation documentation for vSphere Essentials vCenter Server installation.

  
  Is it a good idea to install vCenter on my ESXi host as a virtual machine?  I don't understand how the server can be installed as a virtual machine if she must always be on.  What happens when I do the updates of the hypervisor, ESXi (4.0 to 4.1)?  This would not cause the vCenter Server to disconnect?

  Because I have Essentials, I don't have a HA and cannot migrate the server vCenter Server to another host as shown in the installation documentation.

  Thank you

  It should not be a problem - if you manually perform the update using either the esxupdate or vcenter command vihostupdate does not at all in the game - if you use VUM he actually intitiates the vihostupdate order - when restarting the host to be reconnecting to vcenter once it is running.

• vSpere 5 Networking of best practices for the use of 4 to 1 GB NIC?

  Hello

  I'm looking for a networking of best practices for the use of 4-1 GB NIC with vSphere 5. I know there are a lot of good practice using 10 GB, but our current config does support only 1 GB. I need to include the management, vMotion, Virtual Machine (VM) and iSCSi. If there are others you would recommend, please let me know.

  I found a diagram that resembles what I need, but it's for 10 GB. I think it works...

  (I had this pattern HERE - rights go to Paul Kelly)

  My next question is how much of a traffic load is each object take through the network, percentage wise?

  For example, 'Management' is very small and the only time where it is in use is during the installation of the agent. Then it uses 70%.

  I need the percentage of bandwidth, if possible.

  If anyone out there can help me, that would be so awesome.

  Thank you!

  -Erich

  Without knowing your environment, it would be impossible to give you an idea of the uses of bandwidth.

  That said if you had about 10-15 virtual machines per host with this configuration, you should be fine.

  Sent from my iPhone

• Store data customized for vSphere web client plugin

  Hello

  I'm working on vSphere Web Client plugin development. We need to store custom data on vCenter server that can be configured by the user only once.

  Plugin service will read the data and use it to connect to our server.

  Currently, we create an XML with encrypted data and store it in the folder/usr/local on vCenter.
  What are the best practices for storing these data?

  Thank you
  Vincent

  Small data files can be stored on the same device running the Web Client (VCSA for Linux) or vCenter for Windows

  In order to make your code compatible with the next vSphere 6.0 5.5 plugin you must use the following directories that will retain the write access:

  -/ Import/Storage on Linux

  -System.getenv ("PROGRAMDATA") under Windows.

  Create a subdirectory of the plugin and write your files.  See the code in the samples/global services/Global Services-service/src/main/java/com/vmware/samples/global services/GlobalServiceImpl.java