Best Practice Guide for stacked N3024 switches

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• creation of eBook and EPUB Best Practices guide

  I plan to convert the EPUB format for display on eReaders in my book, but I can't find a set of guidelines. I ran across a reference to a "EPUB best practices guide", but I was not able to find it. Anyhone knows where it is?

  My book is in InDesign CS5, and I was the creation of PDF files for the eBook version. I would be very interested in his comments on the advantages and disadvantages of the EPUB. I understand that the page size will be smaller (it is now 8.5 x 11) and images (there are many of them) will be online. Is there anything else I should know before I plunge into that?

  Thank you

  Mark

  This page a link to EPUB best practices and other useful resources:

  http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing.html

  I also highly recommend Elizabeth Castro eBook, "EPUB Straight to the Point"

• Looking for a best practices guide: complete replacement cluster

  Hello

  I was in charge as the complete replacement of our current environment hardware ESXi 5.0 U2 with a new cluster of servers running 5.1.

  Here are the basics:

  Currently, HP Blade Server chassis with 6 hypervisors running ESXi 5.0 U2, the company license, about 100 or so virtual running different operating systems - mainly MS 2003 R2 to 2008 R2, stores the data on without connected through ethernet connections 1 GB.

  Intended to run 7 independent servers as a cluster with ESXi 5.1, license of the company, connections to SAN be improved to 10 GB ethernet or fiber.  The range of virtual machines in the importance of 'can be restarted after hours' to ' should not be restarted or that will cost us money service interruptions.  (Looking for the options live - migrate if possible although I have my doubts, it will be an option given the cluster plans)

  I'm looking for a Guide to best practices (or a combination of the guides) which will help me to determine how best to plan the migration of VM - especially in light of the fact that the new cluster will be not part of the existing.  Given also the fact we upgrade is unable (due to problems on the chassis firmware) 5.1 before this work...

  Any pointers in the right direction would be great - look no no not a handout, just people signs

  See you soon.

  Welcome to the community - from vCenter 5.1 can manage an ESXi 5.0 host just one at a time do guests 5.0 5.1 and vmotion the VMs to new hosts - environment as the two environment will see the same SAN it will be necessary for storage vmotion.

• Best Practice network for 6 uplinks

  Can someone help me and tell me recommended for segregation with 6 uplinks. Ideally, I would like to have 2 management, 2 VMotion, 2 for Production and 2 for iSCSI (software). However I have only 6 natachasery. Recommend that people would be here when you use HA and DRS clusters?

  I would also use the iSCSI team balancing, but do not know how to set up. The SAN has two NETWORK adapters and is trucked by using 802.1ad. How to configure the load balancing across the vSwitch iSCSI to take advantage of the trunk to the SAN?

  Any help or pointers to good white papers or documentation would be really appreciated.

  Thank you

  Tony

  Hello

  I would use:

  Load Balancing: route based on the Port ID of source

  Network failover detection: State of the link only

  Notify the switches: Yes

  BACKSPACE: Yes

  Of course, it's just my opinion that's all that's right for you. You can use the probe if you want a constant pulse of your links.

  Steve

• Need best practices PROCESS for scheduling backups RMAN.

  Hi all

  I would like a suggestion on what follows for RMAN backups:

  Details:

  Database:-11 GR 2, size 3 TB on ASM - DW database.

  As suggestions on:

  (1) what kind of backups for plan - additional as well as backups of block?

  (2) can size necessary to allocate space for backup - one ASM or disk space?

  (3) anything else - please suggest.

  Thank you.

  Thanks Hemant, this is very useful for me - the explanation is clear and understandable.

  Thank you!

• I'm looking for 'best practices' tips for a configuration of a project (first CS5.5, Windows 7 Pro)

  I was instructed to update an old corporate video with narration, sounds, graphics and new music.

  Video camera ONLY material that I've had a DVD corporate (NTSC) - the original source material is simply not available. .

  I can rip the DVD in MPEG 2 and import it into first without problem, but I would like to be able to use resolutions higher the updated graphics.

  I intend to export it to Youtube (HD) but can export to DVD or BluRay as well.

  My question really reduced management of sequences.   I tell myself that my sequence settings must be the highest resolution, I expect to work with (Youtube HD or Bluray) which allows you to easily export to lower quality, but I don't really know if it's as simple as that.  Is there a standard method in the industry?  Am I close?

  First may actually use the DVD .vob files, just copy DVDs to hard disk, and then import in first.

  What is the DVD existing video in a 4:3 or 16:9 format? If 4:3, think about how you will work in a program of 16:9. Rather than having the black terminal on the side bars, many publishers will some sort of background to fill this space. A popular solution is to reproduce a bass track, stretch 4:3 video to fill the screen and add Gaussian blur effects. Because the colors/content of the sidebars will correspond to the main video, it's a little disguises the fact that the video is 4:3.

  If you put SD images in a HD program, it will look 'soft' compared to the HD images. As a compromise, you can consider the new edition as 720 p instead of 1080 p program, so that the SD resolution is not to be tense. All the computer video/video YouTube is not interlaced, meaning to sequences and exports should be done as Progressive.

  Flow problem of potential work - if you take the images existing SD from the DVD and it high end in a HD sequence, then export to DVD (SD resolution), the video turned into mush. She was raised, and then again once, dowscaled really kill the quality. May be required to copy the HD sequence in a sequence of SD, difficulty of the problems of size / scale of graphics and titles and DVD for the export of the sequence of SD to avoid the top of range/reduce images SD. Note that the DVD-video is highly compressed, so you already work with a weak source material, recompress again will be a hit in quality in all cases, but certainly avoid the top of range/cut again.

  I don't have Adobe apps in front of me at the moment, but I think that Blu - ray 720 p export options are limited, perhaps 720 p at 59.94 only, not sure. Which may affect your decision to 1080 p and 720 p.

  Hope these tips help you

  Thank you

  Jeff Pulera

  Safe Harbor computers

• Best practices 4U2 for Dell OM VIB for ESXi 4.1 upgrade?

  I am about to begin the upgrade of my guests of U2 4 ESXi 4.1 and am running over old Dell OpenManage VIBs (currently v6.3) on 4U2.  However, I was wondering if there is a proper procedure for the upgrade to 4.1 and update of Dell OM VIBs.  I have not tried yet, so I n; t sure if there was a 'good' way to do to avoid problems.  The Dell site does not mention the upgrade when you install last VIB - explains just how to install.

  • Uninstall the old Dell OM VIBs before the upgrade to ESXi 4.1 and then install the most recent VIB 6.4?
  • Upgrade to 4.1 and then uninstall the old VIB, install the new version of VIB
  • Uninstall the old Dell OM VIBs before the upgrade to ESXi 4.1 and then install the most recent VIB 6.4?
  • Upgrade to 4.1 and then install the new VIB on the current

  I followed the instructions here (pretty basic) when installing the VIBs first, but I have never done an upgrade of the VIBs.  I guess my main issue is whether it is safer to uninstall and reinstall then install new or just on the top when dealing with VIBs themselves?

  Just looking to see if anyone has experience with this and maybe avoid some headaches, if things go pear shaped

  Hello.

  My experience has been uninstalling and reinstalling works better.  I would remove the VIB before the upgrade.

  Good luck!

• 10 GB NIC redundancy-Best Practice

  Hi all

  I have now deployed successfully to the 5 different poles of vSphere using 4 x 1 GB network adapters on all servers to ESX/ESXi hosts. I used 2 active/passive NIC in vSwitch0 vMotion and network management traffic (or Service Console for ESX) and used 2 active/active NIC in vSwitch1 for VM traffic as shown below. The uplinks are using 802. 1 q trunks in redundant Cisco switches.

  We are now moving to 10 GB networks. I have the opportunity to use this same design of map NETWORK 4 (using the HP Flex 10 vNIC or cards Cisco Palo) or go with a simpler model of map NETWORK 2. What is the recommended best practice to separate VMkernel Port and port VM group traffic among the physical network interface cards? Any suggestions or links to published documents would be greatly appreciated of VMware.

  Thank you!

  

  Take a look at my post here.  https://www.myciscocommunity.com/message/63033#63033

  Can help you with your design questions.  There is also a generic 'best practice' guide for 10G networks & VMware environments.

  As Cisco I obviously partial to the Palo adapter.  Unlike the Flex-10 option you set up not a bandwidth 'max' virtual NETWORK card, rather, you set a guarantee min. for each virtual host NIC given that you can create multiple network cards virtual with Palo, you can create one for VMotion, VM data, IP storage, etc. and define your QoS guarantees quickly & easily while offering redundancy with the recovery of host-transparent fabric.

  Let us know if you have specific questions about a deployment.

  Kind regards

  Robert

• Best practices for managing strategies of path

  Hello

  I get conflicting advice on best practices for managed paths.

  We are on version 4.0 of ESXi connection to a HP EVA8000. Best practices guide HP recommends setting the strategy of railways handle on Round Robin.

  This seems to give two active paths to the optimized controller. See: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2185ENW.pdf

  We used certain consultants and they say that the best practices of Vmware for this solution is to use the MRU policy which translates a single path to the optimized controller.

  So, any idea what good practice is best practice? Does make a difference?

  TIA

  Rob.

  Always go with the recommendation of the storage provider.  VMware recommendation is based on the characteristics of the generic array (controller, capable ALUA failover methods, etc.).  The storage provider's recommendation is based on their performance and compatibility testing.  You may want to review their recommendations carefully, however, to ensure that each point is what you want.

  With the 8000, I ran with Round-Robin.  This is the option of creating more robust paths available to you from a failover and performance point of view and can provide performance more even through the ports on the storage controller.

  While I did of the specific tests/validation, the last time that I looked at the docs, the configuration of HP recommends that you configure each IO to the ports in the switch configuration.  This adds the charge to the ESX host, the switch to other ports, but HP claims that their tests showed that it is the optimal configuration.  It was the only parameter I wondered in their recommendation.

  If you haven't done so already, be sure to download the HP doc on configuring ESX and EVA bays.  There are several parameters that you must configure the policy path, as well as a few scripts to help make the changes.

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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• 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 practices for the Manager of the Ucs to the smooth running of our environment

  Hi team

  We are remaining with data center with Cisco Ucs blades. I want the best practices guide Ucs Manager Manager of Ucs check all things configured correctly in accordance with the recommendation of Cisco and standard to the smooth running of the environment.
  A certain provide suggestions. Thank you

  Hey Mohan,.

  Take a look at the following links. They should provide an overview of the information you are looking for:

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computi...

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/UCS-manag...

  HTH,

  Wes

• Best practices for the installation of 10 GbE

  I have a new HP DL380G7 who has 4 cards on 1 G and 2 10 network interface cards.

  This will run VSphere 4.1 esxi

  I'm looking for some advice on what would be a good network for this server configuration.

  The storage will be NFS goes to a NAS Server

  I tried to create 2 vswitch one with one of the NICs embedded for the service console and the other switch was a team of the 10G env.

  Support Vmware told me that in this configuration, I had to make sure that the service console was on a different subnet from the kernel NFS or NFS traffic will try to go on the service console port.

  I tried this config but as soon as I add a Vkernel to the 2nd switch I am not out ping.

  So I thought I'd post here with what would be a best practice configuration for this server.

  In the first configuration, it is difficult to say which interface will be used for NFS traffic.  Therefore, it is not a recommended configuration.

  The second configuration must be correct.

• Best practices for virtualized file servers?

  Hello

  I wonder if anyone has a best practice ideas for a virtualized file server.

  I need to virtualize file server Windows 2003 with data from the 400GO file. Virtual machines are stored on an ISCSI SAN (MSA2012i). There is plenty of space on the VMFS

  I'm trying to decide if it will be better to put the data from file server (IE file shares) on the VMFS as a virtual drive or the data to another volume of SAN and present it to the file via ISCSI initiator server.

  I know that I can do both - I'm looking for some advice.

  Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  How will you do your backups?

• Best practices with the virtual directories CFIDE and Jakarta

  Right now I'm going through implementation of our new virtualized ColdFusion 10 Application/Web/database server, and I noticed that during installation, since I had 'Connect all IIS sites' selected, he created maps of handler for each, but each also gave a virtual directory for "CFIDE" and "Jakarta".

  Best practices guides told to restrict access to the "adminapi', 'administrator', 'componentutils' and 'wizards' records under the CFIDE directory, but is - it safe to simply remove these virtual directories (and leave the mappings Manager) so that sites can always treat the types of file associated with CF?

  1 the site we have is the default localhost is linked to, I felt I would just let these virtual directories, since to reach CF ACP this server, we'd have to goto: http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

  I know that if a file from a site needs to access things like file CFScripts, CF will automatically take the virtual directory is there and create < script > tags use a src of "/ CFIDE/scripts" (which if I remove this virtual directory, would break the functionality, but assuming that I do not use this technology to other sites) It removes "CFIDE" and "Jakarta" is going to hurt anything?

  Look at the Guide of ColdFusion 9 Lockdown that Pete Freitag wrote.  A large part of it still applies to the 10 ColdFusion, especially security aspects of IIS.  There is an article on the creation of filters of aggregate demand which allows you to block access to most (or all) of the subdirectories in CFIDE.

  Regarding the Jakarta virtual directory, you need this one.  That's what allows the IIS connector to function.

  -Carl V.

• Oracle on NetApp - white paper best practices?

  I thought I saw a nice whitepaper "best practices" that Oracle published to operate the RDBMS on NetApp.
  
  But I can't seem to find now. Does anyone have a link?
  
  (I access Metalink if it is there, but my search didn't find it).
  
  Thank you!

  The doc I have comes actually from NetApp, not Oracle. It is titled: NetApp Best Practice Guidelines for Oracle

  You can find a copy here: http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3633.pdf

  See you soon,.
  Brian