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• Best Practice Guide for stacked N3024 switches

  Is there a guide to BP for the configuration of the 2 N3024s stacked for the connections to the server, or is the same eql iscsi configuration guide.

  I'm trying to:

  1) reduce to a single point of failure for rack.

  (2) make good use of LACP for 2 and 4 nic server connections

  (3) use a 5224 with it's 1 lacp-> n3024s for devices of unique connection point (ie: internet router)

  TIA

  Jim...

  Barrett pointed out many of the common practices suggested for stacking. The best practice is to use a loop for stacking and distributing your LAG on multiple switches in the stack, are not specific to any brand or model of the switch. The steps described in the guides of the user or the white papers generally what is the recommended configuration.
  http://Dell.to/20sLnnc

  Many of the best practices scenarios will change of network-to-network based around what is currently plugged into the switch, and the independent networks needs / requirements of business. This has created a scenario where the default settings on a switch are pre-programmed for what is optimal for a fresh switch. Then recommended are described in detail in white papers for specific and not centralized scenarios in a single document of best practices that attempts to cover all scenarios.

  Express.ypH N-series switches are:
  -RSTP is enabled by default.
  -Green eee-mode is disabled by default.
  -Frother is enabled by default.
  -Storm control is disabled by default.

  Then these things can change based on the towed gear and needs/desires of the whole of society.

  For example, Equallogic has several guides that recommendations of configuration detail to different switches.
  http://Dell.to/1ICQhFX

  Then on the side server, you would like to look more like the OS/server role. For example a whitepaper VMware that has some network settings proposed when running VMware in an iSCSI environment.
  http://bit.LY/2ach2I7

  I suggest making a list of the technology/hardware/software, which is used on the network. Then use this list to acquire white papers for specific areas. Then use these white papers best practices in order to ensure the switch configuration is optimal for the task required by the network.

• 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.

• Nexus 1000v and vSwitch best practices

  I am working on the design of our vDS Nexus 1000v for use on HP BL490 G6 servers. 8 natachasery is allocated as follows:

  vmnic0, 1: management of ESXi, VSM-CTRL-PKT, VSM - MGT

  vmnic2, 3: vMotion

  vmnic4, 5: iSCSI, FT, Clustering heartbeats

  vmnic6, 7: data server and Client VM traffic

  Should I migrate all the natachasery to 1000v vDS, or should I let vmnic 0.1 on a regular vSwitch and others migrate to the vDS? If I migrate all the natachasery at the very least I would designate vmnic 0.1 as system so that traffic could elapse until the MSM could be reached. My inclination is to migrate all the natachasery, but I've seen elsewhere on comments in forums that the VSM associated networks and, possibly, the console ESX (i) are better let off of the vDS.

  Thoughts?

  Here is a best practice-how-to guide specific to 1000v & VC HP might be useful.

  See you soon,.

  Robert

• HTML and CSS best practices for Eloqua?

  Hello Topliners community,

  My name is Ben and I am a Web Designer. Currently looking for guidance on best practices in HTML and CSS when you work with Eloqua. I am interested in best practices for email and landing pages.

  Thank you

  Ben

  For landing pages, you can use a bit of HTML, CSS, and Javascript like on any other page. For example, we use the Bootstrap on a couple of our Eloqua landing pages.

  Support for HTML and CSS is much more limited. It is one of the best resources I've seen for CSS support:

  http://www.campaignmonitor.com/CSS/

• ESX 3.5 and SQL best practices

  I searched for info on best practices when deploying SQL on the virtual computer. We already have a couple of lightweight SQL production servers running 2008 x 64 and SQL 2005. We are looking for migrating databases existing physical servers to a 2008 newly deployed x 64 SQL VM, I was able to find documents of Vmware and turned to the forum and information. This are not the giant databases - of things such as BES, EPolicy and other mundane but necessary databases. Even more to divide readers to separate newspapers, the sys and databases? Any advice would be appreciated.

  Take a look on:

  Best Practices for SQL Server

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/solutions/sql_server_virtual_bp.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/SQLServerWorkloads.PDF

  André

• IOS VPN L2L, placement and discuss best practices

  We install an IOS router VPN on a for L2L 2651XM VPN bundle.

  I am trying to determine the best placement for the VPN router.

  We have Internet BR, then switch outside, Pix, then inside the switch.

  We have installed a card 4 ports in the Pix 515e to provide the DMZ interface, but have not yet configured all interfaces.

  L2L is B2B and we need so our traffic/internal network firewall/NAT.

  I have a switch for the DMZ if necessary for additional PSS.

  I recommend you to place the VPN router outside of the interface on the outside of the firewall. Ending inside the unencrypted VPN interface on port DMZ on the PIX, in this way, you can use the pix to control which internal servers users VPN can connect to.

  This way you can your traffic inside nat, but your VPN traffic to not cross a line of nat. Your VPN users also allow the pix to access your internet connection

  On the VPN router lock the outside as much as possible interface, if the IOS supports the functionality defined firewall and then use it.

• charge battery for the first time and the best practices for maintaining the life of the new PC laptop battery

  Received my first laptop as a gift today (Pavilion touchsmart 15-n287cl).  You need to know 1.  How long to charge it for the first time or first several times; 2 do you need to unload and reload between each use completely and how long should it take to charge an average before being used again.  3. Since no instructions is a good idea to leave it plugged when you use all the time or the battery should be removed to improve the conservation of life?

  Thank you in advance, it has taken a lot of time to migrate from the desktop.  Want it to be a positive experience.

  Hello

  Modern batteries and chargers are now smarter than you.

  1. you can plugin and immediately to use the machine, the machine will stop charge when the battery is fully charged.

  2. No, we don't need to unload completely between uses, then as above. The recommendation is sometimes we run machine on battery until that up to 10%.

  3. when using AC is a way to protect the unit during the failure of current, all of a sudden, leaving battery on laptop.

  Please read the following article:

  http://BatteryUniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

  Kind regards.

• 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.

• What is the best practice to block through several layers sizes: hardware and hypervisor VM OS?

  The example below is not a real Setup, I work with, but should get the message. Here's my example of what I'm doing as a reference layer:

  (LAYER1) Hardware: The hardware RAID controller

  • -1 TB Volume configured in the 4K block size. (RAW)?

  
  

  (Layer2) Hypervisor: Data store ESXi

  • -1 TB of Raid Controller formatted with VMFS5 @ block size of 1 MB.

  
  

  Layer (3) the VM OS: Server 2008 R2 w/SQL

  • -100 GB virtual HD using NTFS @ 4 K for the OS block size.
  • -900 GB virtual HD set up using NTFS @ 64 K block size to store the SQL database.
  • 
    

  It seems that vmfs5 is limited to only having a block size of 1 MB. It would be preferable that all or part of the size of the blocks matched on different layers and why or why not? What are the different block sizes on other layers and performance? Could you suggest better alternative or best practices for the sample configuration above?

  If a San participated instead of a hardware on the host computer RAID controller, it would be better to store the vmdk of OS on the VMFS5 data store and create an iSCSI separated THAT LUN formatted to a block size of 64 K, then fix it with the initiator iSCSI in the operating system and which size to 64 K. The corresponding block sizes through layers increase performance or is it advisable? Any help answer and/or explaining best practices is greatly appreciated.

  itsolution,

  Thanks for the helpful response points.  I wrote a blog about this which I hope will help:

  Alignment of partition and blocks of size VMware 5 | blog.jgriffiths.org

  To answer your questions here, will:

  I have 1 TB of space (around) and create two Virutal Drives.

  Virtual Drive 1-10GB - to use for OS Hyper-visiere files

  Virtual Drive 2 - 990 GB - used for the storage of data/VM VMFS store

  The element size of default allocation on the Perc6 / i is 64 KB, but can be 8,16,32,64,128,256,512 or 1024 KB.

  What size block would you use table 1, which is where the real hyper-visiere will be installed?

  -> If you have two tables I would set the size of the block on the table of the hypervisor to 8 KB

  What block size that you use in table 2, which will be used as the VM data store in ESXi?

  ->, I'd go with 1024KO on VMFS 5 size

  -Do you want 1024KO to match the VMFS size which will be finally formatted on top he block?

  -> Yes

  * Consider that this database would eventually contain several virtual hard drives for each OS, database SQL, SQL logs formatted to NTFS to the recommended block, 4K, 8K, 64K size.

  -> The problem here is THAT VMFS will go with 1 MB, no matter what you're doing so sculpture located lower in the RAID will cause no problems but does not help either.  You have 4 k sectors on the disk.  RAID 1 MB, 1 MB invited VMFS, 4 k, 8K, 64 K.   Really, 64K gains are lost a little when the back-end storage is 1 MB.

  If the RAID stripe element size is set to 1 024 Ko so that it matches the VMFS 1 MB size of block, which would be better practice or is it indifferent?

  -> So that's 1024KB, or 4 KB chucks it doesn't really matter.

  What effect this has on the OS/Virtual HD and their sizes respective block installed on top of the tape and the size of block VMFS element?

  -> The effect is minimal on the performance but that exists.   It would be a lie to say that he didn't.

  I could be completely on the overall situation of the thought, but for me it seems that this must be some kind of correlation between the three different "layers" as I call it and a best practice in service.

  Hope that helps.  I'll tell you I ran block size SQL and Exchange time virtualized without any problem and without changing the operating system.  I just stuck with the standard size of microsoft.  I'd be much more concerned by the performance of the raid on your server controller.  They continue to do these things cheaper and cheaper with cache less and less.  If performance is the primary concern then I would consider a matrix or a RAID5/6 solution, or at least look at the amount of cache on your raid controller (reading is normally essential to the database)

  Just my two cents.

  Let me know if you have any additional questions.

  Thank you

  J

• 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

• 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 of the controller auto-Anchor

  Hi all

  I got confused with this configuration. I have 2 of Wlc. One is the internal controller and another set for the controller of the anchor (different subnet-DMZ area) for traffic comments. Where can I configure DHCP assignment for users of this... ? Must deal with to intervine Production controller in this dhcp or will I directly anchor to take care of everything... ? What is recommended?

  And any best practice doc is also available for this... ?

  Help, please...

  Thanks in advance.

  I usually use the WLC anchor for dhcp or the client will in fact have a dhcp server in the DMZ. I don't like to dig holes through the FW to dhcp unless I have to.

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