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Memory performance and its effect on hypervisors, guests and Big Data Analytics

ChrisTinker| June 20, 2012 - last edited June 21, 2012
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I recently was engaged on a case where a customer was not able to achieve the network throughput required to satisfy business requirements, even though the network was a virtual switch (vswitch) within a VMware hypervisor and the communication was between two guests within the same hypervisor (HOST).

 

Do you have memory interleaving enabled?  Node level? Channel Level? Bank Level?

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Unpacking and Making Sense of a VMware vm-support Diagnostic Bundle

pat-lampert| May 31, 2012
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As promised earlier, this post will begin a series on how we use the data from various collection tools here in HP support to diagnose problems on your servers.

Since the majority of the cases I handle involve VMware, I will start with the VMware ESXi diagnostic bundle.

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Got VMware® technology support questions? Here’s a great opportunity to chat with the experts

alainc| November 9, 2011 - last edited November 14, 2011
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HP will conduct two online sessions where you can chat with HP support experts on VMware. It’s a unique opportunity to ask them your questions.

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  • More than 30 years in Sales and Marketing in IT services business. Currently managing global campaigns for Datacenter Care.
  • I graduated in Software Engineering. Joined HP family five years ago, I deliver Insight Remote Support technical consulting for HP customers, in North America, Canada and Latin America. Assist setting up, installing and configuring the solution in customers' IT environments.
  • I am an identical twin. My brother’s name is Greg Tinker and we have been extremely fortunate working similar careers within HP, known to our HP colleagues and many of our customers as "The Tinkers". Our job is to be the technical lead on major business operational outages with millions of Dollars/Euros hanging in the balance. We both have a complete background in architectural, Infrastructure and application environments from both the proactive and reactive side of HP Enterprise Service (HP ES), and HP Enterprise Business (HP EB).
  • I am an identical twin. My brother’s name is Chris Tinker and we have been extremely fortunate working similar careers within HP, known to our HP colleagues and many of our customers as "The Tinkers". Our job is to be the technical lead on major business operational outages with millions of Dollars/Euros hanging in the balance. We both have a complete background in architectural, Infrastructure and application environments from both the proactive and reactive side of HP Enterprise Service (HP ES), and HP Enterprise Business (HP EB). We have always attended the same schools, studied the same material (big surprise, as we are identical twins), and have always worked as a close team and strive to demonstrate our teaming ability’s to others. We each have more than 11 years experience supporting mission-critical enterprise customers on a broad range of technologies. We’ve both won the HP MVP award multiple times as well as coauthored books, programs, and whitepapers in our spare time.
  • More than 25 years in the IT industry, managing ITSM, service development and delivery projects in Technology Services. Specialized in end2end support for ISV based business solutions. Certified ITIL and project management expert.
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