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Fixing host connection issues on Dell servers in vSphere 5.x
I had a conversation recently with a few colleagues at the Dell Enterprise Forum, and as they were describing the symptoms they were having with some Dell servers in their vSphere cluster, it sounded vaguely similar to what I had experienced recently with my new M620 hosts running vSphere 5.0 Update 2. While I’m uncertain…
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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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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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Side effects of upgrading VM’s to Virtual Hardware 7 in vSphere