ESXi 5.5 – Vallard's Blog

Cisco, Cluster on Die, and the E5-2600v3

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Vallard

I was in a meeting where someone noted that VMware does not support the Cluster on Die feature of the new Intel Haswell E5-2600v3 processors. The question came: “What performance degradation do we get by not having this supported? And would it be better to instead use the M3 servers” This information they got from…

Configure VMware from scratch without Windows

Posted on January 21, 2014November 19, 2014 by Vallard

One of the things that bugs me about vCenter (still) is that it is still very tied to the Windows operating system. You have to have Windows to set it up and trying to go about without Windows is still somewhat difficult. In my lab I’m trying to get away from doing Windows. I have…