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Upgrading to vCenter 4.1 with bundled SQL Express Edition – database...
My infrastructure uses a bundled SQL Express Edition database because it isn’t hugely complex, and I didn’t want too much dependency on other servers (themselves VMs). I encountered problems upgrading...
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vSphere CLI libeay32.dll error on 64bit Windows 7
If you install the latest build of vSphere CLI 4.1 on Windows 7 x64 some of the commands will fail, with perl.exe throwing the following error: The ordinal 3212 could not be located in the dynamic link...
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Upgrading vSphere ESXi 4.0 to 4.1 with Dell EqualLogic storage
There are several big motivators to moving over to vSphere 4.1 with respect to storage. Firstly, there’s support for vStorage APIs in new EqualLogic array firmwares (starting at v5.0.0 which sadly,...
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Optimizing virtual SQL Server performance
Some months ago I implemented these steps and saw a striking improvement in the performance of our applications (between 2x and 4x depending on the query): Firstly, if you’re using iSCSI, make sure the...
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Upgrading to vSphere 5.0 with Dell EqualLogic
UPDATE – Ignore the Broadcom driver stuff. It seemed to be ok all afternoon, but I have rebooted the ESXi host and it’s gone completely unstable again, with pretty much continuous iSCSI disconnects....
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Shortcut to testing VMware Auto-Deploy
It’s very useful to have a VMware lab environment particularly for training needs, and outside of larger enterprises this is generally difficult to achieve owing to the high time cost of setting one...
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