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Its not really good to mix NICs connected at different speeds to the same vSwitch, but if you do, ensure that the lowest speed one is set as standby. VMs with the vmxnet3 NICs on the same host will be able to communicate with each other at 10Gbps (faster if any of the software supports VMCI)...

If you set the Windows hosts to Shortest Queue Service Time and ensure that ALB is enabled, do you still see mirror port traffic? We've got our VMware hosts configured using Round Robin but all the Windows servers are set to SQST with vDisk ownership balanced across the controllers.

I'm not sure exactly what aggregation protocols that switch supports, but are the relevant ports ether-channelled/bonded? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004048

If you're not planning to do it 'on the cheap', I'll second Quest vRanger or Veeam Backup & Replication as being pretty reliable and worth the money. Both include features to reduce backup size by only getting the data and not 'white space' along with incrementals/differentials. We currently...

Or go back home from St Pancras Intl on HS1...only £3.30 for the "upgrade" ticket and less than half the journey time back to Gravesend.

I'd 2nd the points on performance but can't say they're unreliable. We've got a pretty big Nexsan estate and they're definately not suitable as tier 1 but looking at cost V rack space, difficult to beat. Up to 180TB in 4U ;) We had a quote for an E60 (20TB x 2TB SATA) last year and I have a...

We use http://www.inmage.com/products/Scout.html to replicate 1 million+ small files (about 1.4TB). It also tracks all the changes during replication so you can view a point in time snapshot. DFSR is brilliant when it 'just works'...but when it doesn't then its a real pain to work out what its...

I've not tried it, but vSphere 5 can PXE boot all the way from bare metal to a fully configured ESXi host, no need for any local storage :) If you search for the procedure to extract the ESXi imagedd file to USB/SD using WinImage, you'll see how small the ESXi footprint is. Really would be a...

As with most product updates, we tend to try to stay within a couple of months of the latest release, unless there are particular issues which need to be addressed. Maintenance weekends (every 2-3 months) provide the best opportunity for the firmware/driver updates. The HP Version Control...

Older HW I know, but I've swapped between different processors on my ML110 G5 without issues. I'm sure HP would love to be able to tie you into only using only official HP parts but thats not the case. Warranty aside, the main difference between OEM and 'Official' parts is a HP p/n on the box...

I'd gamble on longer than 3 years before its anything like comparable to 1GbE in the home. Until we start seeing 10GbE onboard NICs in servers there is no chance in the consumer market. Wait for 40GbE to be the new enterprise 'toy' then costs associated with 10GbE will drop much faster.

What hardware and OS is this on? HP servers have a network utility which gives the option to 'team' multiple NICs for load balancing/redundancy. I think you'll need something specific to the NIC drivers/software, not standard in Windows.

You're thinking of the VMFS datastores themselves where there is no longer the 2TB limit, unfortunately I think we're still stuck with 2TB as the max size for a VMDK itself. I've just upgraded my Microserver from 4.1 to 5. Just going through the pain of storage vMotioning the VMs around so...

A working config is a bit different to a VMware supported config ;) Pretty much the only VMware supported RAID controllers are hardware. Any of the cheap onboard ones (MicroServer, ML110s) will just show the individual disks on the host- no RAID.

Chances of you needing >1gigabit for a couple of servers and clients is pretty low. Are the servers regularly maxing out their connections at the moment? Do some research into the GBICs your switches support- might be something like these, looks pretty cheap to get hold of.

I do alternate weeks of 07.30-16.00 and 10.00-18.30. I'd love to be on the 7.30 shift all the time! Get home when most other people are only just leaving work.

I have 2 x 4GB non-ECC Kingston DIMMS in my Microserver without problems (KVR1333D3N9/4G). It definately doesn't support 'proper' server RAM as I tried some PC3-10600R (used in BL and DL G6s and G7s) and it wouldn't boot.

Not sure if its what FirebarUK was linking you to...but look at Flex-10 Virtual Connect interconnect modules (or FlexFabric if you're feeling adventurous). You can carve up 10Gb nic across 4 virtual nics on a server i.e. 4 x 2.5Gb. Particularly useful if you are using VMware as you can have a...

Micro Server is the vital bit that is missing from the thread title! ProLiant is HP's entire server range.

Random fact....It has the biggest Sainsbury's in the UK.