Tag: Virtual

Configuring Physical Appliances for Virtual Machines in VMware

One of the new features of VMware vSphere is the ability to give physical devices from hosts to virtual machines, This ensures that the driver of the virtual operating system, Directly access the physical device in question, The advantages of course is the increased performance of the device, as latencies are reduced. Latest version of VMware Tools required, it should also be taken into account that they can only be assigned 2 per virtual machine and 8 Per Host. And logically such a virtual machine will lose all the advantages of moving to other hosts, since we are assigning a physical device of a specific host. This is called VMDirectPath I/O.

Migrating VMware VI3 Virtual Network Environment to VMware vSphere with Distributed Switches

Well, once we have our entire virtual environment already migrated to the new version of VMWare vSphere 4.0, all servers running under VMware ESX 4.0 and our VMware vCenter Server as well, We will be able to enjoy its advantages, One of them is the new switch environment, called Distributed Switches or vNetwork Distributed Switches. With this we will achieve comfort when managing network environments, Much simpler, Change the way switches are configured, No more configuring a switch or virtual network for each host, otherwise, is a global environment, everything is done at the vCenter Server level and will apply to all of our hosts.