Mr. Epping’s High Availability “Deepdive” page is definitely worth a read and a book mark. A VMware HA Cluster consists of nodes, primary and secondary nodes. Primary nodes hold cluster settings and all “node states” which are synced between primaries. Secondary nodes send their state info(resource occupation) to the primary nodes Nodes send a
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When I fired up my RSS reader today I notices a lot of new/updated KB articles at VMware’s site about timing in virtual machines. I figured it’s worth while to link them here just in case. Determining and changing the rate of timer interrupts a guest operating system requests Time in a Linux virtual machine
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So while ESX 3.5 (not sure about i) may have tcpdump and tcpslice: [root@esx root]# tcp tcpd tcpdump tcpslice They’re of limited use, at least with the way ESX implements networking, vSwitches after all, are good and proper layer 2 devices. Now, that is not to say you couldn’t do something with arp poisoning, but…
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