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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/30
Interesting:
Summary:
It is for virtual NUMA, and it depends.
It is only helpful if the host can do NUMA.
It is only relevant when you allocate more than 8 effective cores for a VM.
When neither apply: just use “number of cores per socket” as “number of virtual sockets” might be limited in the guest operating system licensing.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/23
A message like “Unable to connect to the MKS” usually does not mean you have reached the maximum of 10 connections for a VM.
Usually it means there is some network issue, like a firewall or router misconfiguration.
Port 902 is used (both TCP and UDP) to provide (among others, hence MKS) console connections.
The default MKS port is 902, and you cannot change it.
For vCenter it is even worse as you cannot even go through NAT:
About the only solution is to tunnel through SSH: VMWare vSphere Client Remote Access via SSH Tunnel and redirect ports 443, 902 and 903.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/28
Great tips from Use Chrome for VMware-related taskbar shortcuts, unclutter your browser-based UIs so they look like native apps! | TinkerTry IT @ Home
Use these links to jump to each section’s step-by-step instructions for:
vSphere Client ESXi Embedded Host Client vSphere HTML5 Web Client vSphere Web Client VAMI Video showing how to create all 5 shortcuts
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/11
Some great blog entries to read:
And:
Finally:
All of the above are somehow related to the Superserver SYS-5028D-TNT4 .
When looking at some pictures from the above posts, then an M1015 HBA should be perfect for ZFS (lots of results for ESXi M1015 HBA PCI VMDirectPath IO pass through , and they still seem to be the way to go for ZFS ).
There might be a need for extra cooling; for some ideas: Cooling for m1015 Raid Card – [H]ard|Forum
Below are other ServerRAID OEM possibilities supporting 8 internal devices (chipset in parentheses) via:
12 Gbps adapters:
EUR ~180: ServeRAID N2215 (SAS3008)
EUR ~200: ServeRAID M5120 (SAS3008)
ServeRAID M5210e (SAS3008)
6 Gbps adapters:
3 Gbps adapters:
ServeRAID MR10i (SAS1078)
ServeRAID BR10i (SAS1068e)
ServeRAID BR10il v2 (SAS1068e)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/22
Interesting stuff to play with the next few weeks:
This version of the ESXi Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host and should perform much better than any of the existing solutions.
Thanks Paul Braren for sharing this .
Source: ESXi Embedded Host Client – VMware Labs
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/27
Via G+ Paul Braren :
Great new video by Alex López (VCA6, and moderator at http://tonymacx86.com ), all kinds of great info in this video, check it out!
Create a Custom ESXi Image with ESXi-Customizer-PS Script – YouTube
VIDEO
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/14
You can specify the ESXi ciphers used to serve the vSphere Client. You can do this both ways: either extend them (make it less secure, but more compatible, for instance to server vSphere Client on Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP), or restrict them to make it more secure.
VMware recommends the cipherList ALL to make it more compatible: VMware KB: vSphere Client and vSphere PowerCLI may fail to connect to vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 due to a Handshake failure .
However, ALL is far too wide to be secure. Since cipherList uses the standard cipher list format documented at ciphers – SSL cipher display and cipher list tool .
You can use the cipher lists from Strong SSL Security on nginx – Raymii.org :
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