Update: See the comments below this article is not in alignment with VMware support. At this time VMware support recommends using active/standby for multi-nic vMotion fail over. – Thanks David for bringing that to[…]
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Category: Deep Dive
Memory Management in ESXi 6
A good friend recently reviewed the what’s new in vSphere 6 course and has some questions. That generated a number of really great discussions and this blog article. At about the same time I[…]
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Deep Dive: Network Health check
vSphere 5.1 introduced one of my favorite new features. Network health check. This feature is designed to identify problems with MTU and VLAN settings. It is easy enough to set up MTU and VLAN’s[…]
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Deep Dive: vSphere Traffic Shaping
Traffic Shaping is all about the bad actor scenario. We have 100’s of virtual machines that all get along with each other. The application team deploys a appliance that goes nuts and starts to use[…]
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Deep Dive: vSphere Network Load Balancing
In vSphere load balancing is a hot topic. As load size per physical host increases so does the need for more bandwidth. In a traditional sense this was done with etherchannel or LACP. This[…]
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Deep Dive: Virtual Switch Security settings and Port Binding
Security Settings: Three options are available on a virtual switch. These settings can be set at the switch layer then overwritten on individual port groups. Promiscuous Mode – This allows the guest adapter to detect[…]
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Deep Dive: Standard Virtual Switch vs Distributed Virtual Switch
Let the wars begin. This article will discuss the current state of affairs between virtual switches in ESXi. I have not included any third party switches because I believe them to becoming quickly not[…]
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