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September 26th, 2009
Tim Phillips

Today I would like to talk about difference in various types of vNIC in ESX 4. Need to note that this device have no physical analogues, and can be used only if VmWare Tools are installed. VMXNET – first generation, optimized for network performance between VMs.
VMXNET2 or Enhanced – simple VMXNET, but with few additional [...]

August 10th, 2009
Tim Phillips

Hi there! Sorry, got no time to write. Few days ago I got an idea about series of Versus articles. The first one is VmWare ESXi vs MS Hyper-V, and the second one will be iSCSI: hardware vs software.
All my thoughts about VmWare vs MS are available under cut. So,VmWare`s footprint – 100 Mb, while [...]

July 28th, 2009
Tim Phillips

Few days ago Jack Fergeus from openBench Labs published a very interesting article on using Enterprise Server edition of Starwind Software`s iSCSI target.  I`ve used free version of this tool which had some limitations in a lab for a few months, but now I have deployed it on a real network, and this article was very useful [...]