All posts in category VMware Design

VM Swapfile (.vswp) placement with SRM

Nowadays VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) gets implemented more and more and like vSphere, VMware SRM needs a good architectural design before starting off. One of the design considerations is around the placement of the Virtual Machine Swap File (.vswp) which I want to give some more information about in this article. Let’s first take […]

VMFS- and Block Size is important for virtual RDM's

A little post from me since I  got an error message while working with large RDM’s. While I twittered out the message it seemed that Duncan Epping from VMware had a posting ready at which he only had to press the “Publish”-button. See his very helpful article over here. What you might have noticed is that a RDM’s size is displayed as the real size […]

Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere

I’ve written this blog as an add-on to Frank Denneman’s blog about Flex-10 which you can find over here. Goal of this blog is to get a clear vision about the Flex-10 port mappings that HP uses to facilitate their blades with NIC’s, with the special focus towards VMware ESX/vSphere. If you are looking for the HP FlexFabric mappings […]

VMware VCDX Design Exam, watch out for the "Next"-Button!

Yesterday I made progress in my pursuit to get the VMware VCDX Certificate by completing the Design Exam in Frankfurt. I’ve got a very important notice to make about this exam for all of you who are going to do this in the future. The exam consists of 2 section, one section in which you will […]