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The Secret of Ephemeral Port Groups

May 31, 2011 | 6 comments

When using the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch, ephemeral port groups offer a capability not found in the other two binding options.

NIC Teaming Update: Hyper-V Still Cloudy as Ever

May 26, 2011 | 4 comments

Network teaming provides load balancing and fault tolerance to your virtual infrastructure. VMware vSphere provides powerful, elegant solutions to meet the most demanding requirements. The Hyper-V platform continues to rely on unsupported legacy technologies.

OpSource Cloud Experience — Networking

April 6, 2011 | 1 comment

Learn some of the details behind the OpSource Cloud network topology and performance.

Yes, NIC teaming is not unsupported

February 6, 2009 | 11 comments

Unlike Hyper-V, VMware ESX ships with complete network interface (NIC) teaming capabilities, a critical feature for hypervisors.

Clean up vCenter with PowerShell after SCVMM leaves

January 5, 2009 | 3 comments

When System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) connects to VirtualCenter/vCenter, several changes are made. Learn how to recover everything with PowerShell.

Thanks for all the port groups!

December 15, 2008 | 5 comments

VMware ESX virtual machine networking is pretty straightforward.  A virtual switch (vSwitch) is created on each host by default and is associated with one or more physical NICs.  When multiple physical NICs are used, virtual machines benefit from added redundancy and load balancing by simply connecting to such a vSwitch. However, VMs don’t connect directly [...]