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Mike Brown
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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright
Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Using paravirtualized VM hardware

Paravirtualization provides a direct communication path between the guest OS within the virtual machine and the ESXi hypervisor. Paravirtualized virtual hardware and the corresponding drivers that are installed with VMware Tools are optimized to provide improved performance and efficiency. This hardware includes the VMXNET network adapter and the PVSCSI storage adapter.

How to do it...

Adding paravirtualized hardware adapters to a virtual machine is done by using the following process:

  1. Access the Guest OS compatibility section of the VMware HCL at http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl to determine guest OS support for paravirtual adapters. A screenshot of the Guest OS compatibility HCL, along with...
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition
Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789801514

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Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
Read more about Hersey Cartwright