VMware has released another great “technical paper” regarding Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1. It can be found in the Technical Resource Center which by the way contains a lot of awesome docs.

The technical paper, Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1, provides performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware vSphere 4.1. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring your deployments.

Chapter 1 – “Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere,” provides guidance on selecting hardware for use with vSphere.

Chapter 2 – “ESX and Virtual Machines,” provides guidance regarding VMware ESX™ software and the virtual machines that run in it.

Chapter 3 – “Guest Operating Systems,” provides guidance regarding the guest operating systems running in vSphere virtual machines.

Chapter 4 – “Virtual Infrastructure Management,” provides guidance regarding resource management best practices.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.1.pdf

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System Requirements
The only requirement is Virtual Center 2.5 or higher. The Hyper9 product is NOT required.

Download HERE

- Use de VMXNET 3 Adapter
- Use per Disk a SCSI Controller
- Store the Log & Database files on physical Lun on a SAN
- Use the LSI LOGIC SAS controller for Windows 2008 & 2008 R2
- Use the VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) Controller for Every physical Raw Device Mapping (RDM).

Another TIP.  Exchange 2007 & Exchange 2010 needs a lots of Memory. When choosing the size for the OS partition, swap file need also al lot of space.

Installation and Deployment

• VMware ESX. VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Future major releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture.
  • VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1.
  • VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according to the VMware vSphere support policy.
  • To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi, go to the VMware ESX to ESXi Upgrade Center.
• Scripted Install for ESXi. Scripted installation of ESXi to local and remote disks allows rapid deployment of ESXi to many machines. You can start the scripted installation with a CD-ROM drive or over the network by using PXE booting. You cannot use scripted installation to install ESXi to a USB device. See the ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide, the ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup Guide, and the ESXi Embedded and vCenter Server Setup Guide.
• vSphere Client Removal from ESX/ESXi Builds. For ESX and ESXi, the vSphere Client is available for download from the VMware Web site. It is no longer packaged with builds of ESX and ESXi. After installing ESX and ESXi, users are directed to the download page on the VMware Web site to get the compatible vSphere Client for that release. The vSphere Client is still packaged with builds of vCenter Server. See the ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide, the ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup Guide, and the ESXi Embedded and vCenter Server Setup Guide.

Storage

• Boot from SAN. vSphere 4.1 enables ESXi boot from SAN (BFN). iSCSI, FCoE, and Fibre Channel boot are supported. Refer to the Hardware Compatibility Guide for the latest list of NICs and Converged Adapters that are supported with iSCSI boot. See the iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide and the Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide.
• Hardware Acceleration with vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). ESX can offload specific storage operations to compliant storage hardware. With storage hardware assistance, ESX performs these operations faster and consumes less CPU, memory, and storage fabric bandwidth. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• Storage Performance Statistics. vSphere 4.1 offers enhanced visibility into storage throughput and latency of hosts and virtual machines, and aids in troubleshooting storage performance issues. NFS statistics are now available in vCenter Server performance charts, as well as esxtop. New VMDK and datastore statistics are included. All statistics are available through the vSphere SDK. See the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide.
• Storage I/O Control. This feature provides quality-of-service capabilities for storage I/O in the form of I/O shares and limits that are enforced across all virtual machines accessing a datastore, regardless of which host they are running on. Using Storage I/O Control, vSphere administrators can ensure that the most important virtual machines get adequate I/O resources even in times of congestion. See the vSphere Resource Management Guide.
• iSCSI Hardware Offloads. vSphere 4.1 enables 10Gb iSCSI hardware offloads (Broadcom 57711) and 1Gb iSCSI hardware offloads (Broadcom 5709). See the ESX Configuration Guide, the ESXi Configuration Guide, and the iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide.
• NFS Performance Enhancements. Networking performance for NFS has been optimized to improve throughput and reduce CPU usage. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.

Network

• Network I/O Control. Traffic-management controls allow flexible partitioning of physical NIC bandwidth between different traffic types, including virtual machine, vMotion, FT, and IP storage traffic (vNetwork Distributed Switch only). See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• IPv6 Enhancements. IPv6 in ESX supports Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) with manual keying. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• Load-Based Teaming. vSphere 4.1 allows dynamic adjustment of the teaming algorithm so that the load is always balanced across a team of physical adapters on a vNetwork Distributed Switch. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• E1000 vNIC Enhancements. E1000 vNIC supports jumbo frames in vSphere 4.1. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.

Availability

• Windows Failover Clustering with VMware HA. Clustered Virtual Machines that utilize Windows Failover Clustering/Microsoft Cluster Service are now fully supported in conjunction with VMware HA. See Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service.
• VMware HA Scalability Improvements. VMware HA has the same limits for virtual machines per host, hosts per cluster, and virtual machines per cluster as vSphere. See Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 4.1 for details about the limitations for this release.
• VMware HA Healthcheck and Operational Status. The VMware HA dashboard in the vSphere Client provides a new detailed window called Cluster Operational Status. This window displays more information about the current VMware HA operational status, including the specific status and errors for each host in the VMware HA cluster. See the vSphere Availability Guide.
• VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) Enhancements. vSphere 4.1 introduces an FT-specific versioning-control mechanism that allows the Primary and Secondary VMs to run on FT-compatible hosts at different but compatible patch levels. vSphere 4.1 differentiates between events that are logged for a Primary VM and those that are logged for its Secondary VM, and reports why a host might not support FT. In addition, you can disable VMware HA when FT-enabled virtual machines are deployed in a cluster, allowing for cluster maintenance operations without turning off FT. See the vSphere Availability Guide.
• DRS Interoperability for VMware HA and Fault Tolerance (FT). FT-enabled virtual machines can take advantage of DRS functionality for load balancing and initial placement. In addition, VMware HA and DRS are tightly integrated, which allows VMware HA to restart virtual machines in more situations. See the vSphere Availability Guide.
• Enhanced Network Logging Performance. Fault Tolerance (FT) network logging performance allows improved throughput and reduced CPU usage. In addition, you can use vmxnet3 vNICs in FT-enabled virtual machines. See the vSphere Availability Guide.
• Concurrent VMware Data Recovery Sessions. vSphere 4.1 provides the ability to concurrently manage multiple VMware Data Recovery appliances. See the VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide.
• vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) Enhancements. VADP now offers VSS quiescing support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. This enables application-consistent backup and restore operations for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 applications.

Management

• vCLI Enhancements. vCLI adds options for SCSI, VAAI, network, and virtual machine control, including the ability to terminate an unresponsive virtual machine. In addition, vSphere 4.1 provides controls that allow you to log vCLI activity. See the vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Scripting Guide and the vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference.
• Lockdown Mode Enhancements. VMware ESXi 4.1 lockdown mode allows the administrator to tightly restrict access to the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and Tech Support Mode (TSM). When lockdown mode is enabled, DCUI access is restricted to the root user, while access to Tech Support Mode is completely disabled for all users. With lockdown mode enabled, access to the host for management or monitoring using CIM is possible only through vCenter Server. Direct access to the host using the vSphere Client is not permitted. See the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• Access Virtual Machine Serial Ports Over the Network. You can redirect virtual machine serial ports over a standard network link in vSphere 4.1. This enables solutions such as third-party virtual serial port concentrators for virtual machine serial console management or monitoring. See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide.
• vCenter Converter Hyper-V Import. vCenter Converter allows users to point to a Hyper-V machine. Converter displays the virtual machines running on the Hyper-V system, and users can select a powered-off virtual machine to import to a VMware destination. See the vCenter Converter Installation and Administration Guide.
• Enhancements to Host Profiles. You can use Host Profiles to roll out administrator password changes in vSphere 4.1. Enhancements also include improved Cisco Nexus 1000V support and PCI device ordering configuration. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• Unattended Authentication in vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). vMA 4.1 offers improved authentication capability, including integration with Active Directory and commands to configure the connection. See VMware vSphere Management Assistant.
• Updated Deployment Environment in vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). The updated deployment environment in vMA 4.1 is fully compatible with vMA 4.0. A significant change is the transition from RHEL to CentOS. See VMware vSphere Management Assistant.
• vCenter Orchestrator 64-bit Support. vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 provides a client and server for 64-bit installations, with an optional 32-bit client. The performance of the Orchestrator server on 64-bit installations is greatly enhanced, as compared to running the server on a 32-bit machine. See the vCenter Orchestrator Installation and Configuration Guide.
• Improved Support for Handling Recalled Patches in vCenter Update Manager. Update Manager 4.1 immediately sends critical notifications about recalled ESX and related patches. In addition, Update Manager prevents you from installing a recalled patch that you might have already downloaded. This feature also helps you identify hosts where recalled patches might already be installed. See the vCenter Update Manager Installation and Administration Guide.
• License Reporting Manager. The License Reporting Manager provides a centralized interface for all license keys for vSphere 4.1 products in a virtual IT infrastructure and their respective usage. You can view and generate reports on license keys and usage for different time periods with the License Reporting Manager. A historical record of the utilization per license key is maintained in the vCenter Server database. See the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide.
• Power Management Improvements. ESX 4.1 takes advantage of deep sleep states to further reduce power consumption during idle periods. The vSphere Client has a simple user interface that allows you to choose one of four host power management policies. In addition, you can view the history of host power consumption and power cap information on the vSphere Client Performance tab on newer platforms with integrated power meters. See the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide.

Platform Enhancements

• Performance and Scalability Improvements. vSphere 4.1 includes numerous enhancements that increase performance and scalability.
  • vCenter Server 4.1 can support three times more virtual machines and hosts per system, as well as more concurrent instances of the vSphere Client and a larger number of virtual machines per cluster than vCenter Server 4.0. The scalability limits of Linked Mode, vMotion, and vNetwork Distributed Switch have also increased.
  • New optimizations have been implemented for AMD-V and Intel VT-x architectures, while memory utilization efficiency has been improved still further using Memory Compression. Storage enhancements have led to significant performance improvements in NFS environments. VDI operations, virtual machine provisioning and power operations, and vMotion have enhanced performance as well.

  See Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 4.1.

• Reduced Overhead Memory. vSphere 4.1 reduces the amount of overhead memory required, especially when running large virtual machines on systems with CPUs that provide hardware MMU support (AMD RVI or Intel EPT).
• DRS Virtual Machine Host Affinity Rules. DRS provides the ability to set constraints that restrict placement of a virtual machine to a subset of hosts in a cluster. This feature is useful for enforcing host-based ISV licensing models, as well as keeping sets of virtual machines on different racks or blade systems for availability reasons. See the vSphere Resource Management Guide.
• Memory Compression. Compressed memory is a new level of the memory hierarchy, between RAM and disk. Slower than memory, but much faster than disk, compressed memory improves the performance of virtual machines when memory is under contention, because less virtual memory is swapped to disk. See the vSphere Resource Management Guide.
• vMotion Enhancements. In vSphere 4.1, vMotion enhancements significantly reduce the overall time for host evacuations, with support for more simultaneous virtual machine migrations and faster individual virtual machine migrations. The result is a performance improvement of up to 8x for an individual virtual machine migration, and support for four to eight simultaneous vMotion migrations per host, depending on the vMotion network adapter (1GbE or 10GbE respectively). See the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide.
• ESX/ESXi Active Directory Integration. Integration with Microsoft Active Directory allows seamless user authentication for ESX/ESXi. You can maintain users and groups in Active Directory for centralized user management and you can assign privileges to users or groups on ESX/ESXi hosts. In vSphere 4.1, integration with Active Directory allows you to roll out permission rules to hosts by using Host Profiles. See the ESX Configuration Guide and the ESXi Configuration Guide.
• Configuring USB Device Passthrough from an ESX/ESXi Host to a Virtual Machine. You can configure a virtual machine to use USB devices that are connected to an ESX/ESXi host where the virtual machine is running. The connection is maintained even if you migrate the virtual machine using vMotion. See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide.
• Improvements in Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. vSphere 4.1 includes an AMD Opteron Gen. 3 (no 3DNow!™) EVC mode that prepares clusters for vMotion compatibility with future AMD processors. EVC also provides numerous usability improvements, including the display of EVC modes for virtual machines, more timely error detection, better error messages, and the reduced need to restart virtual machines. See the vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide.

Partner Ecosystem

• vCenter Update Manager Support for Provisioning, Patching, and Upgrading EMC’s ESX PowerPath Module. vCenter Update Manager can provision, patch, and upgrade third-party modules that you can install on ESX, such as EMC’s PowerPath multipathing software. Using the capability of Update Manager to set policies using the Baseline construct and the comprehensive Compliance Dashboard, you can simplify provisioning, patching, and upgrade of the PowerPath module at scale. See the vCenter Update Manager Installation and Administration Guide.
• User-configurable Number of Virtual CPUs per Virtual Socket. You can configure virtual machines to have multiple virtual CPUs reside in a single virtual socket, with each virtual CPU appearing to the guest operating system as a single core. Previously, virtual machines were restricted to having only one virtual CPU per virtual socket. See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide.
• Expanded List of Supported Processors. The list of supported processors has been expanded for ESX 4.1. To determine which processors are compatible with this release, use the Hardware Compatibility Guide. Among the supported processors is the Intel Xeon 7500 Series processor, code-named Nehalem-EX (up to 8 sockets).

You can download VMware vSphere 4.1 HERE

What’s New in VMware Workstation 7.1

Wat heeft hij allemaal gedaan:
- All graphics updated to vSphere4
- All new theme of the New York and New Jersey – Protected and Recovery Site
- How setup replication for EMC Celerra, Clariion CX3, NetApp Filers and HP Lefthand VSA
- Integrated with these three storage vendors  – so I cover what happens in EMC, NetApp, and HP when recovery plans are tested or run
- Coverage of the new “Shared Site” configuration
- Integrating PowerCLI scripts to the Recovery Plan
- How to automate VMware SRM using the SRM SDK API
- Updated PowerCLI chapter specific to the new vSphere4 Distributed vSwitches

Dit boek is gratis te downloaden als PDF. Klik op het boek om het te downloaden. Je kunt het ook bestellen maar dan is het niet gratis.

VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 U1

PowerCLI Quick Reference van virtu-al.net

VMWare heeft vorige week Update 1 voor vSphere vrijgegeven.
Met deze update wordt de vSphere client volledig ondersteund op Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2.

Download de client (Je moet wel een account hebben om in te loggen)

VMware ESX 4 Update 1 verbeteringen:
- VMware View 4.0
- Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support
- Enhanced Clustering Support for Microsoft Windows
- Enhanced VMware Paravirtualized SCSI Support
- Improved vNetwork Distributed Switch Performance
- Increase in vCPU per Core Limit
- Enablement of Intel Xeon Processor 3400
The new VMware ESX 4 update 1 build is 208167

VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 verbeteringen:
- IBM DB2 Database Support for vCenter Server
- VMware View 4.0 support
- Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2
- Pre-Upgrade Checker Tool
- HA Cluster Configuration Maximum
- VMware recommends installing vCenter Server on a 64-bit Windows operating system.

VMware Data Recovery (vDR) version 1.1 verbeteringen:
- File Level Restore Functionality is Officially Supported
- Integrity Check Stability and Performance Improved
- Integrity Checks Provides Improved Progress Information
- Enhanced CIFS Shares Support

vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 verbeteringen:
- Downloaden doe je HIER.

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2 verbeteringen:
- Support for Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (x86/x64)
- Support for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (x64Protection of VMware vCenter Management   Web – Services
- Introduction of the WinZip Self-Extracting executable file for Setup
- 60-day evaluation
- Tomcat Monitoring Rule

Wat ik gedaan heb om het te halen staat allemaal hier onder:

Cursus
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

PDF’s
VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 Blueprint
VMware Education Services
VMware vSphere 4.0 Documentatie
vSphere Configuration Maximum
vSphere 4 reference card
vSphere 4 notes
Virtualisedreality vSphere 4 Cue Cards
VMware port numbers drawing

Practice Exams:
Simon Long vSphere 4 Practice Exams
VMware Mock test examen

DVD Cursus
Train Signal VMware vSphere training

Boeken
Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (Scott Lowe)

2. Ga naar Inventory –> Host & Clusters –> Configuration –> Storage.

3. Add Storage –> Next

4. In de afbeelding heb ik de juiste gegevens ingevuld –> Next

folder = /nfs/(jefoldernaam)

5. Next

6. Finish
 

7.

De volgende nieuwe OS worden ondersteund:
- Windows 7 Home Basic
- Windows 7 Premium
- Windows 7 Business
- Windows 7 Enterprise
- Windows 7 Ultimate
- Windows 2008 SP2, R2
- Windows Vista SP2

Nieuwe Features:
- Windows 7
- Aero
- Windows XP Mode Compatible
- 3D Graphics Verbeteringen voor Windows XP gasten
- vSphere Support ESX 4.0 Overwegingen voor het draaien van een ESX gast.
- Virtuele Printing
- Four-way SMP
- Guest 32GB Memory
- 256-bit Encryption
- AutoProtect
- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA
- Cross-Platform License Keys
- Pauzeer een Virtual Machine
- Expand virtuele schijven
- Compact virtuele schijven
- Shared Folder Compatibiliteit
- On-Demand VMware Tools Download
- Drag and Drop Enhancements
- Virtual Network Editor
- Fuse Mount voor Linux
- Vereenvoudigde Verzamelen van Informatie over ondersteuning
- IPv6 Support

Officiële Release Notos vind je HIER

2. Tabblad Settings
  
3. Network Services
 

4. NFS
 
5. Enable NFS Services & Apply

6. Tabblad Shared Storage

7. Klik op Add

 
8. Apply & daarna OK
9. Overzicht Shares. Je kunt nu de share vmware toevoegen aan je ESX of ESXi Server

Inventory

Administration

Management

Virtual Machine

vSphere-certification-style-prep-exam-now-online
VMworld 2009: ThinApp upcoming features
How to design a 700+ server datacenter that will only be used for a week
Firewall port connection diagram

2. Maak onder Out-of-Box Drivers twee mapjes aan. Zie de afbeelding hieronder.
 

3. Importeer de drivers uit de 7zip bestand.

4. Klik de MDT Deployment Share weer aan en klik op Update Deployment Point

5. 

6. Wil je dit met Powershell doen klik op view script dan krijg het volgende powerscript te zien:

Add-PSSnapIn Microsoft.BDD.PSSnapIn
New-PSDrive -Name "DS001" -PSProvider MDTProvider -Root "E:\Distribution"
update-MDTDeploymentShare -path "DS001:" -Verbose

7. Vergeet niet om de oude LiteTouchPE_x64 & LiteTouchPE_x86 in WDS te verwijderen en opnieuw toe te voegen.

Eerst moet je de  VpxClient.exe.config bestand bewerken die te vinden is in
C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher map.

Het moet er uit komen te zien als hier onder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.net>
<connectionManagement>
<clear/>
<add address="*" maxconnection="8" />
</connectionManagement>
</system.net>
<appSettings>
<add key = "protocolports" value = "https:443"/>
</appSettings>
<runtime>
<developmentMode developerInstallation="true"/>
</runtime>
</configuration>

Vervolgens hebben we een bestand genaamd System.dll  nodig die niet bestaat op een niet Windows 7 machine.

Het is ook mogelijk om het config bestand en dll HIER te downloaden

Plaats de config bestand in C:\Program Files\Vmware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher map.

In de Launcher maken we een nieuwe  map aan genaamd Lib en in deze map plaatsen we het gedownloade DLL-bestand.

Ga naar systeem eigenschappen en maak een nieuwe ‘Environment Variable en noem deze "Devpath” met de waarde van C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\Lib. Je kunt deze vinden onder Control Panel –> System and Security –> System –> Advanced system settings

Herstart de PC en VMware vSphere Client nu moeten werken, zonder foutmeldingen.

BRON: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211440

Vandaag heb ik het examen gehaald van Res Powerfuse Series 8 Basic exam.
Nu mag ik me RES PowerFuse Series 8 Certified Professional noemen.

Ik kan me nu verder voor gaan bereiden op de VMWare vSphere Training & het VCP4 Examen

Status vinkje bij Enabled OK

Tabblad Dynamic Discovery

Kies vervolgens voor add..

Vul je hier het ip adres in van de iSCSI target in.

Klik vervolgens op Close.

Vervolgens krijg je de volgende melding

Of je kunt dit ook doen door middel van naar datastores te gaan en daar een rescan uit te voeren.
 

 
Ik heb hiervoor een 10GB schijf ingesteld maar met starwind kun je tot 2TB gaan met de gratis versie.
Er zijn ook leuke nassen op de mark van bijvoorbeeld iOmega Storcenter die officieel door VMWare gesupport worden. iOmega Storcenter ondersteund NFS & iSCSI zodat je HA & DRS thuis kunt testen: http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-storage-desktop/storcenter-network-storage-solution/?partner=4740

2. Download de Microsoft Native SQL Client voor 2008 hebt. Downloaden doe je hier: X64 Package (sqlncli.msi) – 7963 KB

3. Open de System32DNS door het volgende commando uit te voeren in run: %systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe
Microsoft: kb942976
VMWare: kb1010401

4. Maak 2 Systeem-DSN’s aan, een voor VMware zelf en een voor de update manager
Zie de volgende scherm afbeeldingen. Doe de volgende stappen dus 2 keer.

Vul hier de SA gegevens in.

Kies hier een van de twee databases die je aangemaakt hebt.

4. Installeren vSphere

Mijn huidige server met daarop Windows 2008 met VMware Server kreeg ik met vSphere 4 een paars scherm en een berg foutmeldingen.

Na zoeken bleek dit moederbord niet ondersteund te worden. Bale

Op zoek naar wat anders…

Vandaag was ik weer opzoek naar een ESX whitebox aangezien ik niet verwachte dat mijn gaming systeem niet vSphere compatibel is aangezien het moederbord uitgerust is met een Nvidia chipset en ik tevens naar een HP ML110 aan het kijken was .

Vandaag maar eens mijn USB vSphere ESXi USB Stick in mij gaming systeem gestopt.

Eens even kijken wat het doet, want je weet het maar nooit…

En wat blijkt alles werkt

De twee nvidia nics + nvraid (raid 5) opstelling wordt zonder problemen herkend Cooolll!!!!

Specs:

Intel Q6600
Asus P5NT WS (Nvidia Chipset)
4 GB Geheugen (Nu duimen dat 8GB werkt) (8GB onder windows blue screen )
3 x 250GB 7200RPM (Raid 5)
DVD Brander
8800GTS als videokaart beetje overkill maar wel Cool

Het wordt nu even geheugen bestellen en hopen dat alles draaid.

Me is happy

VMWare heeft een document uitgebracht waar in uitgelegd wordt hoe je de beste performance kunt krijgen in vSphere 4.0 op een aantal gebieden:

Deze zijn: hardware keuze, ESX & virtual machines, gast operating systems, en virtual infrastructure management.

Hoofdstukken:

Hoofdstuk 1, "hardware voor gebruik met VMware vSphere," op pagina 11, geeft aanwijzingen over het selecteren van de hardware voor gebruik met vSphere.

Download:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf

ESX 4i vereist minimaal 2048 MB aan geheugen.

Je hebt 2 tooltjes nodig om een vSphere ESXI 4.0 USB stick te maken.
Je kunt het ook met WinImage doen zie de handleidingen HIER & HIER

Maar op een of andere  manier krijg ik onder Windows 7 & Windows 7 een error met geen melding dus moet het maar op een andere manier. Zie de afbeelding hieronder.

Oplossing (WERKT NIET OP WINDOWS 7 COMPUTER)

1. 7-Zip(Free), DD (Gratis)

2. Download the ESXi ISO (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso)

3. Open de ISO met 7-Zip

4. Open “image.tgz” met 7-Zip

5. Ga naar  “\image.tgz.temptar\usr\lib\vmware\installer\VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2\”

6. Extract “VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd” & kopieer deze naar de map D:\DD

7. Pak dd-0.5.zip uit naar d:\dd\

8. Run –> CMD

9. Ga naar D:\DD

10 Typ het volgende dd –list enter

Je krijgt nu een lijst te zien met alle harddisk apparaten die in je computer zit

11. Zoek hier je USB stick op. Het is iets in de trend van \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume6

12. Type dan het volgende dd bs=1M if=VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume6 vervang het laatste stukje door je USB Stick…

13. Je hebt nu als het goed is een USB stick met daarop vSphere ESXi 4.0

Veel plezier met je VMWare vSphere USB Stick