Higher Ed: Virtualizing Banner Unified Digital Campus with VMware
A higher-ed virtualization note about running Banner Unified Digital Campus workloads on VMware ESX and vSphere.
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ESX 3.5 U4 Kickstart for IBM xSeries and QLA4050
Notes from our first serious pass at repeatable ESX 3.5 kickstarts for IBM xSeries hosts with QLA4050 adapters.
Upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 3.5 U4 and Virtual Center 2.5 to vCenter 2.5 U4
The upgrade script and checklist I used for ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 U4 work.
iSCSI SAN performance woes with VMware ESX 3.5
The troubleshooting path from poor ESX iSCSI performance to replacing unsupported HBAs and upgrading the hosts.
False Alarms with Virtual Center 2.5
The troubleshooting trail behind repeated VirtualCenter 2.5 false alarms, including unsupported HBAs and service console memory.
Our Storage Problem
The storage bottlenecks and capacity pressure that pushed us to rethink parts of the VMware environment.
How We Found Our Virtual Networking Mojo
How we worked through early VMware networking assumptions and got to a better ESX host network design.
Find total disk usage of snapshots on a given LUN
A quick VMware ESX note on checking snapshot disk usage on a LUN before deleting a bunch of snapshots.