Network I/O Latency on VMware vSphere 5

A good article on understanding and troubleshooting network latency in vSphere 5.0


http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/network-io-latency-perf-vsphere5.pdf

vSphere 5 Networking Bug Affects Software iSCSI

I have been hit by this issue a few times how, and doubted my skills thinking such a fundamental bug would not exist in VMware vSphere 5


Incorrect NIC failback occurs when an unused uplink is present

Joshua Townsend has blogged about this.


http://vmtoday.com/2012/02/vsphere-5-networking-bug-affects-software-iscsi/

Moving vCentre database to another server

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/docs/vmwdocs/MovingVCenterDBfrom1SQLtoanother.pdf