RANT: VMDKs or VHDs ; Why do I have to Choose?!?
Virtual Disks. They are single file containers that hold entire file systems within them (think of the Galaxy Marbles in Men in Black!) Operating systems blissfully run within…
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Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.
It’s a pretty solid best practice to create a separate virtual disk or VMDK/VHD for each volume in a virtual machine. The alternative is to create 1 vDisk…
They grow so quickly! … Windows 2008 VMDKs that is!
Jeff Miller confirmed for me that after growing your VMDK for your favorite Windows 2008 Server VM, you can quickly and easily use Windows Disk Manager to grow…
How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM
Now that VMware has released their first set of patches for vSphere, let the mass migrations begin! :) John Simon sent me over his EXTENSIVE notes from our…
MAC OS on vSphere! Thanks to IDE support!
One nice little feature added to ESX4 is IDE disk support for the VMs. This of course allows us to now run all of our favorite VMs that…
What’s the deal with the new PVSCSI drivers?
New in vSphere are ParaVirtualized SCSI drivers. From what I have read at various places, 12% performance throughput increase with 18% decrease on guest CPU loads! Sounds great…
Testing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Recently I was asked how a client could convert a bunch of their ESX Virtual Machines to Hyper-V Virtual Machines for bake-off purposes. Here’s a quick rundown of…