Posts from ‘June, 2008’

I get asked this all the time: what is best practice installation procedure? I don’t know that there is such a thing – every environment is slightly different but here’s my general outline for ESX 3.5 + VirtualCenter 2.5 attached to Fibre SANs Installing VirtualCenter 2.5 Install SQL 2005 + SQL Native Client Patch SQL [...]

The Command Queue Depth is the maximum number of that can execute on an HBA port. The default for ESX 3.x is 32, but there are a couple of other important factors to consider before changing the default: Total number of LUNs exposed through the storage array ports to all servers in the fabric Array [...]

The below script runs a silent installation of ESX 3.5 and then sets up some default options. The following are assumptions that need to be changed: There are 5 hosts in the environment (esx01,esx02,esx03,esx04,esx05) The 5 hosts have console IPs 192.168.1.51-55 respectively The 5 hosts have VMotion IPs 192.168.2.51-55 respectively All required subnet masks are [...]

I was at a client’s site the other day and examining another contractor’s attempt to build an ESX farm. To put it mildly, the effort was crap – default install with no partitioning best practices, simple model not enabled on the SQL DB (It was 30GB in size), no seperate network for iSCSI traffic, no [...]