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Learn how VMware user, ONWASA leverages existing servers for VMotion, VMware HA & DRS

2010-03-15T18:57:55Z

Join us for a Webinar on March 30

What it's about?
How the Onslow Water & Sewer Authority leverages their existing server resources to give them advanced VMware features such as VMotion and DRS. You will learn how this VMware user was able to cost effectively build a High Availability environment without having to purchase an expensive and complicated external SAN.

Why you should attend?
You will learn how you can build a cost effective Business Continuity model without breaking your budget! The StorMagic SvSAN is an innovative way for your organization to benefit from the shared storage requirement that comes with VMware initiatives. This webinar is your opportunity to introduce the same for your organization. In addition, you will be provided with a link at the end of the webinar allowing you to download a complimentary copy of SvSAN (a $995 value).

Your presenters?
Tim Connolly – Network Administrator (ONWASA)
Mike Stolz – VP of Marketing (StorMagic)

Hurry! Time is running out to register...
Tuesday, March 30th at 10:30AM, CST (Register NOW!)

Title:		LEARN HOW VMware USER, ONWASA LEVERAGES EXISTING RESOURCES FOR VMOTION, HA & DRS

Date:		Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Time:		10:30 AM CST

Virtualization/Sysadmin Links -- 3/8/2010

2010-03-09T07:59:12Z

A few links related to virualization and/or systems administration that I recently found interesting enough to bookmark (from my del.icio.us feed)

--mds

(you can also follow me on Twitter)

Matthew Snodderly's VMWorld Blog

2010-03-09T07:33:47Z

Actual location of this blog is here: http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/matthew.snodderly

--Matt

(see also: LinkedIn, Twitter)

VMworld.com Virtual Conference

2010-02-22T09:57:58Z

Sign into your VMworld account (or create a new "free" account). Then choose a custom avatar and explore our virtual pavilion with the VMworld community. As you walk your avatar around, you will find virtualization and cloud computing resources for networking, technical support, training, discussions and social media.

From the Virtual Pavilion entrance, you can walk to various halls, rooms, and virtual booths while sharing live chat with other visitors.

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Walk into the Exhibitor Hall to explore dozens of virtual exhibitor booths from leading industry vendors. Here you will find product info, demos, videos, discussions, documents and other resources from each vendor.



Walk into the lower concourse to find breakout rooms with sessions for specific topics.



Visit the Breakout Room for Cloud Computing Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization | Application Virtualization | Dev/Test

Walk into the Sessions & Labs Theater to watch hundreds of VMworld conference sessions from the past 5 years + additional expert sessions. View flash presentations, live video or download presentations as PDF or MP3.

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Walk into the Community Challenge Room and play our online trivia challenge against other members. (High scores posted daily)

Enjoy the virtual conference! ~VMworld.com Team

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2010-02-17T18:56:05Z

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VMworld 2010 Pre-Registration Available

2010-02-09T20:43:45Z

Sign up to be notified when VMworld registration becomes available in both the U.S. (San Francisco) and Europe (Copenhagen).

To share discussions on VMworld 2010, please visit http://www.vmworld.com/community/conferences/.

cheers,

VMworld.com Team

Partition alignment for VMware guests

2010-02-07T04:58:47Z

At an EMC class I took recently, the instructor claimed that in testing she had done, correctly aligning the partitions on a physical Windows server resulted in 30% performance gains. I'm not sure what, if anything the gain is for aligning the partitions in virtual disks, assuming the underlying VMFS LUNs are aligned (which by default they will be if they're created under ESX 3+ or vSphere).

That being said, this is the advice from the "Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.0" guide:

Make sure the system partitions within the guest are aligned. For further information you might want to

refer to the literature from the operating system vendor regarding appropriate tools to use as well as

recommendations from the array vendor.

(from http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf)

Accordingly, I have my Windows VM templates configured with aligned partitions. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995867(EXCHG.65).aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929491 for info on aligning windows partitions.

This is a potentially useful tool -- a powershell script to check the partition alignment of your Windows VMs. (via Scott Lowe )

I haven't adjusted the partition alignment on my Linux VM templates yet. That's on my To Do list, hopefully for some time in the near future. I plan to do some before and after performance testing, and I'll post the results here when I do.

--mds

About Matt

2010-02-07T04:20:32Z

Other places you can find me on the web:

Matt's home page: http://area51a.net/mds/

Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/msnodderly

Del.icio.us bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/msnodderly

Google reader: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/msnodderly

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/msnodderly

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Puppet + git

2010-01-27T19:13:47Z

This is an interesting idea -- instead of running puppet in traditional client-server mode where the configuration is pushed from the server, replacing the puppetmaster server with a git repository, and let the managed servers pull their configs from git.

Scaling Puppet with distributed version control