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    AMD Ryzen 5 Reviewer's Kit Giveaway

    In for one please :)
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    Moving VMs from workstation 12 to vmware fusion on my macbook asks to reactivate

    the mac address changes if you copy and I'm pretty sure that's one of the triggers for reactivation
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    My Google-Fu is weak. Compacting ESXi VMDK?

    make sure the disk is (or convert it to) thin provisioned. sdelete -z in the guest then vmkfstools --punchzero from the esxcli. https://miketabor.com/shrink-thin-provisioned-vmdk-disk/
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    Video Card Passthrough stop working after VM rebooted

    can you run "cat /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep vector" from the cli on the host with the pass-thru video card? Post the results if there are any (do this after you reboot the VM)
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    Windows 7 VMware template - how do you guys keep the size down?

    You could try https://www.ntlite.com/
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    ESXi 6r2 VM Performance Help

    are you seeing any dropped packets either in esxtop or in your firewalls?
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    ESXi 6r2 VM Performance Help

    Have you updated the virtual hardware of the VM's and VMware Tools yet? Just to let you know, the 1950's aren't supported by anything above 5.1u3...
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    Storage Configurations For Diff. Usages

    Synology 1813 with 5 bay expansion. 6x 600GB 10k raptor drives for VMs, 2 120GB SSD for cache, 5 3TB WD Red for static storage.
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    VMware sockets vs cores and Co-Stop

    if you set any type of cores per socket (less than 9 vCPU), you'll bypass the vNUMA scheduler and ESXi will stick the VM to a NUMA node http://virtechgeek.com/2013/06/07/understanding-numa-and-virtual-numa-vnuma-in-vsphere-vm/ any more than 8 vCPU and vNUMA is automatically turned on another...
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    Cheap ESXi build that supports vSGA and/or vDGA

    AMD's FirePro line also supports vSGA/vDGA http://www.fireprographics.com/vdi/hypervisors/vmware/ as far as cost, you can build a cheap server that will support 30+ virtual desktops for around $2500 - or use desktop components to go cheaper but you're still going to drop at least $800 on a...
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    problem trying to move vmdk from one datastore to another

    more than likely the virtual hardware was changed after the snapshot. Consolidate the virtual machine snapshots and try again.
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    Server 2012R2 in VM Acting Up

    you could try to stop the update service, rename/delete the datastore.edb file, remove the contents of the "download" folder, and restart the update service/reboot the server. That should wholly reload Windows update and force it to re-cache all the needed updates. I've had to do that a couple...
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    SQL performance over 1GB iSCSI

    I just want to confirm your running some 180 databases from 7 VM with 1000+ users on 12 15k SAS spindles in a raid 10 that produces around 1400 IOPS (assuming 4k IO, 50% read, 50% write, and 10% cache hit) from the drives alone - not counting any caching from the SAN itself? I'm going to go out...
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    VMware - Cores Per Socket

    here ya go http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/10/does-corespersocket-affect-performance.html
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    Citrix CCA vs VMWare VCP

    CCA is not as comprehensive as the VCP. If you passed the VCP then studying for any of the CCA's should be a breeze. http://citrixxperience.com/ has some free study guides and some you can pay for. I used the site to help prepare for my CCAA.
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