Just finished this morning’s VMware View 5 bootcamp, and I decide to write down my notes here before I forget. Today’s topic is about tuning the VMware View performance. There are three parts involved: Network environment tuning, VM Image tuning and PCoIP tuning. It is not necessary to tune them all, e.g. if you have … Continue reading VMware View 5 Performance Tuning →

I came across this wonderful resource page – Virtualizing Business Critical Enterprise Applications which talks about the successful cases and best practice to deploy the enterprise applications on top of vSphere, such as Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle DB. This is exactly what I need, as I am currently working on a big scale deployment … Continue reading Virtualizing Business Critical Enterprise Applications →

VMFS-5 has increased the VMDK file size limits to 2TB, and allows the extents up to 64 TB. However, using Extent is not recommended by VMware unless you absolutely have to use it. Read more details in this article: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/vmfs-extents-are-they-bad-or-simply-misunderstood.html