Updating and deploying vSphere 5 on HP Servers
Here is a link to the PDF from HP that goes over the details on updating and deploying vSphere 5 hosts. This also includes the steps to add the HP repo to VU...
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VMware KB: Disabling VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Space Reclamation UNMAP in ESXi 5.0
Here is the VMware KB article on how to disable the VAAI SCSI UNMAP feature in ESXi5. The latest update patch disables this. You can check to see if it is en...
NetApp now officially supported for vMSC
Good info on NetApp being officially supported on iSCSI and NFS for vMSC. Worth looking into. Also look into HP P4000 storage as an iSCSI solution for vMSC a...
VMware KB: Cluster warning for ESXi Shell and SSH appear on an ESXi 5 host
When enabling tech mode (ssh) on an ESXi 5 host you will get a yellow alert on your host….Here is the link on how to disable this alert if you decide to leav...
HP Blogs - Block or file based storage for VMware - The HP Blog Hub
Good session comparing file based vs. block protocols for VMware. I use both depending on the type of workloads that I am using. For a set it and forget it h...