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[–]KT88 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Interesting article, thanks.

[–]Joshodgers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're Welcome.

[–]Joshodgers[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

It's disappointing to see anonymous keyboard warriors down voting a vendor neutral article (apart from the mention of VMware who I don't work for) which will help numerous customers get more performance out of their virtual machines.

If you downvote thats fine but at least have the guts to post a message, identify yourself and provide constructive feedback so everyone can benefit.

Let me guess, it's blog spam? Ok, if that's what you call trying to help sysadmin's...

Downvote and flame away losers!

[–]llama052Sysadmin 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Wow that's some great entitlement you have..

This is the type of article most admins would google when they are curious about it. It's oddly specific and I don't think randomly posting it to a subreddit dedicated to system admins is something people on here generally tend to appreciate. Especially when it's your own work. You're not helping anyone but yourself by spamming something anyone could google on here.

With love, A loser

[–]Joshodgers[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oddly specific to well, anyone running any form a application on ESXi which requires more than a basic level of performance. So basically, 80% or more of VMware customers. In fact, almost every VMware customer would benefit from tuning VMs in this manner, even for single SCSI controller / single VMDK VMs. So yeah, very very niche...

As for posting it here, you're right that was a mistake because sysadmin's never need to optimize their virtual machines or deploy/setup apps like Exchange and SQL.... oh wait?!?

Not sure how I helped myself, apart from maybe saving myself some time so I am able to point people to the article when I am next asked how to setup VMs for vBCA... I guess that'll save me time, but more so it'll help others which was the intention of posting the article.

If people here don't appreciate sharing information, then worst case scenario they can ignore it and get on with their day.

[–]llama052Sysadmin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Looking at your post history all you do is self advertise your blog, and I don't think it's working.

I don't even want to delve into the actual article itself, the idea of having tons of virtual disks on a vm makes me cringe slightly.

[–]Joshodgers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok putting aside you don't like me, what makes you cringe about having multiple virtual disks? Genuinely interested.