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Vroom! Scaling up Virtual Machines in vSphere to meet performance requirements–Part 2
In my original post, Scaling up Virtual Machines in vSphere to meet performance requirements, I described a unique need for the Software Development Team to have a lot of horsepower to improve the speed of their already virtualized code compiling systems. My plan of attack was simple. Address the CPU bound systems with more powerful…
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Vroom! Scaling up Virtual Machines in vSphere to meet performance requirements
A typical conversation with one of our Developers goes like this. “Hey, that new VM you gave us is great, but can you make it say, 10 times faster?” Another day, and another request by our Development Team to make our build infrastructure faster. What is a build infrastructure, and what does it have to…
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Exchange 2007 on a VM, and the case of the mysterious Isapi deadlock detected error.
Are you running Exchange 2007 on a VM? Are you experiencing odd warning events in the event log that look something like this? Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event Category: None Event ID: 2262 Date: Time: 12:28:18 PM User: N/A Computer: [yourserver] Description: ISAPI ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll’ reported itself as unhealthy for the following…
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Comparing Nehalem and Harpertown running vSphere in a production environment
The good press that Intel’s Nehalem chip and underlying architecture has been receiving lately gave me pretty good reason to be excited for the arrival of two Dell M610 blades based on the Nehalem chipset. I really wanted to know how they were going to stack up against my Dell M600’s (running Harpertown chips). …