Cool Links

PERFORMANCE:
- Pivot Point – Scott Drummond’s Blog
- Interpreting esxtop Statistics
- esxtop Performance Counters
- VMware performance community
- VROOM! – The VMware performance team’s blog
- Using the esxtop tool to identify VMware ESX memory use
USEFUL BLOG POSTS & ARTICLES:
- Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere
- Thin on Thin? Where should you do Thin Provisioning – vSphere 4.0 or Array-Level?

MUST HAVE REFERENCES
USEFUL DOCUMENTS:
- ESX I/O Compatibility Guide
- Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 and ESX 4.0
- Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning
- vSphere Basic System Administration ESX/ESXi & vCenter Server v4.0 Update 1
vEXPERT RELATED:
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ONLINE TOOLS AND UTILITIES:
| HP Power Advisor | HP DDR3 Memory Configuration Tool |
| HP eConfigure Solutions (Online HP server and/or storage solution builder). | HP Server Product Selector |
| HP License Key Delivery Portal | HP Storage Product Selector |
USEFUL WHITE PAPERS:
- MSA 2000sa – Configuration Best Practices White Paper
- Fundamentals of a well built SAN
- HP StorageWorks 4400/6400/8400 Enterprise Virtual Array configuration
- Best practices white paper
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCentre Guide
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UCS Blade Servers:
Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation
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| James O’Neill | Eileen Brown |
| Microsoft Beta Exam Announcements | Monitoring Hyper-V Performance |
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| Learning the Basics of XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 – Excellent Starters Guide | |
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| IT Management and Cloud Blog (John Willis) | |
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| TweetReach | Twitterfall |
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My name is Simon Seagrave and I am a London (UK) based Senior Technology Consultant and vSpecialist working for EMC. 












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