Month: January 2010

  • Side effects of upgrading VM’s to Virtual Hardware 7 in vSphere

      New Years day, 2010 was a day of opportunity for me.  With the office closed, I jumped on the chance of upgrading my ESX cluster from 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 U1.  Those in IT know that a weekend flanked by a holiday is your friend; offering a bit more time to resolve problems, or…

  • Resource allocation for Virtual Machines

    Ever since I started transitioning our production systems to my ESX cluster, I’ve been fascinated how visible resource utilization has become.  Or to put it another way, how blind I was before.  I’ve also been interested to hear about the natural tendency of many Administrator’s to over allocate resources to their VM’s.  Why does it…