Cool Utility: NetRouteView
While doing a little inbox cleaning (still working on getting to inbox Zer0), I found this note from Aaron Silber. I’ve been meaning to post it so here…
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Networking
Teaming Broadcom NICs in Hyper-V
In a past post, I have written about Hyper-V networking and how to configure. Since Hyper-V’s architecture allows individual vendors to leverage their own software for networking and…
Adding ESX host to vCenter : QueryConnectionInfo Failed
While at a client, I received a really weird error while trying to add a brand new ESXi server to VirtualCenter. I was working on a fresh built…
Hyper-V Networking
If you are familiar with VMware’s style of networking, with their port groups, vSwitches and native teaming, then Hyper-V’s networking might be a little intimidating. Not that you…
Running ESXi 4.1, Check your network settings!
I came across a pretty interesting issue while troubleshooting a network issue in a new ESXi 4.1 environment. It seems that the default installation of ESXi will hard…
Upgrading your NT guests on your vSphere Hosts
Yep! Still have some NT guest Virtual Machines hanging out there. :) During a recent VI3 to vSphere upgrade, we had just finished upgrading both vCenters, upgraded Site…
Slow VMs using Citrix Provisioning Services using VMXNet3 NIC driver
Chris Hahn made some interesting networking observations recently at a client : I was testing provisioned XP desktops at [CENSORED] today, and I noticed that the provisioned XP…
Red Screen of Death – HP DL360 G6s
Blue Screens of Death from Windows, Purple Panic Screens of Death from Linux and now I have to deal with Red Screens of Death from an HP BIOS!?! …
Quick Provisioning Services Tweak for Physical Servers and Targets.
Disable Checksum Offloading on Network Adapter. Offload parameters, which are not compatible with the Provisioning Server network stack, could cause slow performance when enabled on the physical network…