Capture I/O traffic with multipathing policy on a ESXi 4.1 environment
Hi There.. We have 4 paths for the VMAX storage on an ESXi 4.1 environment. The multipathing policy is set to Round Robin. Is there a way that i can monitor the I/O traffic on each path ? I need to know if the I/O traffic is distributed among all the 4 paths equally. I [...]

Answer Question   |  September 11, 2012  5:00 PM
Storage, Storage analysis, vCenter 4.0, VMWare 4.1

Backup solutions for VMware environment
We’ve added VMware servers to our data center, and we’re looking for a backup solution that works. There will be a mix of ESX 4.0 and ESX 3.5 hosts along with vCenter 4.0 with a mix of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat 4.x and 5.x, SQL Server 2005 and Oracle database. TSM [...]

Answer Question   |  January 3, 2011  7:57 PM
Desktop virtualization, ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, Oracle Database, RedHat, Server virtualization, SQL Server 2005, vCenter 4.0, VMware, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008

VMware v4, failure, ESX hosts disconnecting from vCenter and EMC SAN, SCSI Reservation issues also, October 2010
We have a multi cluster VMware environment consisting of HP BL680’s, DL580’s and DL585’s that has been very stable for over a year and we have made no recent changes to storage, switches, hosts or HBAs. Recently we experienced two incidents where ESX hosts on different clusters have disconnected from vCenter and from their shared [...]

Answer Question   |  October 20, 2010  5:15 PM
HBA, SAN, SAN disconnect, SCSI Reservation, vCenter 4.0, vCenter disconnect, VMware ESX, VMware ESXI 4.0 Performance

Clarrification on VSphere with vCenter
There are 3 Questions that i would like to know of . Till date , We have our ESX Servers added as part of Virtual Center through its IP address . We are planning to remove and add it using its FQDN . In this scenario , Will we be able to retain the performance [...]

Answer Question   |  October 10, 2009  6:59 AM
vCenter, vCenter 4.0, Veritas 6.5.4, vSphere, vSphere 4.0