Jul
25
I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair of hyper-threaded Xeons while the …
Jul
15
The final (?) note on the ESXi / HP saga (part 1 / part 2). This is too much of a downer to continue documenting! I’ll start with a quick tip: If moving data to NFS shares seems slow or gives you frequent timeouts look to your network gear. I was having issues getting ghettoVCB …
Jul
11
Continued from Fun with ESXi and HP issues. Learning Lessons. To recap, I had two new drives and a backplane en route and really wanted to get complete image backups of the VM clients running on this VMware ESXi server before I started swapping drives. I’d tried the vSphere built-in file copy utility, FTP and …
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