Following some great feedback from Brandt, Bjorn and Jakk recently in the comments, I’ve created a small update to the reference cards. Thanks guys! As ever, if you spot anything you think needs correcting or new changes that need applied then let us all know.
As usual, you [...]
I’ve made a couple of minor corrections to the networking section of the vReference Card:
Port groups per vSS = 256
Hosts per vDS = 350
Thanks to FerFables, Daniel M, Rene Reitinger, and Alex for pointing out these two typos!
As usual, you can grab the latest copy over here.
At long last, the vSphere 5.0 vReference Card is ready. Go and grab it over here. This time I’ve split it up into both an A4 version and a separate Letter size one. This should hopefully make the printing experience more consistent regardless of which side of the pond you try.
I think I might have stumbled across an interesting design conflict.
UCS Boot from iSCSI SAN support
Cisco UCS manager 2.0 now offers the ability for their blade servers to boot from iSCSI SAN. In the release notes it states:
iSCSI Boot - iSCSI boot enables a server to boot its operating system from an iSCSI [...]
Here’s a preview of the Storage section from the upcoming vSphere 5 vReference Card.
This is the last section I plan to include, so I hope to get a full beta of the card out in the next week or so. Formatting can be onerous and usually takes longer than I expect, but it’s not [...]
Background
VMware have recommended for quite some time that we stick to multicast when configuring NLB (MS’s Network Load Balancing) where possible:
VMware recommends that you use multicast mode, because unicast mode forces the physical switches on the LAN to broadcast all Network Load Balancing traffic to every machine on the LAN.
If [...]
Here’s a preview of the Host section for ESXi 5 from the upcoming vSphere 5 vReference Card.
I’d love to hear your feedback on the section’s content, as I’m likely to drop anything I can’t be sure is absolutely correct. Anything still in grey are areas I’ve not been able to confirm are still valid [...]
Here’s a preview of the Install section for ESXi 5 from the upcoming vSphere 5 vReference Card. I’ve gone fairly heavy on the Image Builder and Auto Deploy areas. Probably much more than they deserve in relation to their importance, but they are new and generally less understood so I thought I’d start in verbose [...]
I’ve been working away on both the ESXi Host and ESXi Install sections for the vReference card, and I came across something I found interesting about the all new Auto Deploy tool. Here’s a quote from the penultimate paragraph on Page 68 of the current Installation and Setup Guide PDF for vSphere 5:
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Here is another preview of the upcoming vSphere 5 vReference Card – the vCenter section. I’d love to hear your feedback, as I’m likely to drop anything I can’t be sure is absolutely correct. Anything still in grey are areas I’ve not been able to confirm that they are still valid with vCenter 5.
Just [...]
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