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I am an Veeam Solutions Architect. My opinions and posts on this side don’t represent Veeam. With a 17 years IT infrastructure background, I am an architect in the fields of backup, disaster recovery, high availability and operational optimisation of virtual environments for strategic named accounts and strategic partners at Veeam Software in Central EMEA. The focus of my career before I joined Veeam 2 year ago has been consulting and project management of major IT infrastructure projects for public customers in the IBM storage and virtualization environment. As a business development manager, I gained several years of additional experience implementing growth plans and sales concepts at and for IBM (premier) business partners. I´m leading teams for over 10 years and I studied business administration at the VWA-Stuttgart in Germany. VMware vExpert 2014 VMware vExpert 2013 VMware vExpert 2012 Veeam Certified Trainer VMCT Veeam Certified Expert VMCE Veeam Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2012 Veeam Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013 Many IBM Certifications, some Citrix Certifications and others. Please ask. Project-Scope: IBM/Netapp Storage PB+, Virtualization (Veeam SE/SA/MVP/VMCT/VMCE and VMware vExpert - VMware Projects with 50.000+ VMs , VirtualIron Trainer, IBM-P, IBM Storage Virtualization PB+, Network: (Cisco, Brocade, Cluster) and finally Server project consulting/architecture (IBM), Active Directory (acros europe branches), Notes/Domino (worldwide projects), Exchange (8000+ Mailboxes, SAP database infrastructure, Citrix TC Winframe-today, Windows und Linux
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Performance comparison vRDM, pRDM und VMDK

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Check out this old ESX3.5 article about performance differences between vRDM, pRDM and VMDK. You can see that even in these good old ESX3.5 days there was no significant performance gap. As actual VMware Volumes do not have the 2TB limitation anymore, there is no real blocker to use VMDK (and vRDM).
If you use vRDM don´t forget to reserve some space next to the vmx file for snapshots (e.g. Backup-Snapshot-helper) :
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmfs_rdm_perf.pdf

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Automatic VMware vSphere Client login

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Hi everybody,

in my Labs and presentations I find it very unhandy to typein connection and username/passwords at my vcenter client.

You can crete a link with parameter to do so.
Also you can change the UI language to your choice.

Parameter:

-u Username
-p Password
-locale Location  (e.g.  de-DE for GermanUI  and en-US for Englisch UI)
-s für VCenter Server or ESX Host

Example:
“C:Program Files (x86)VMwareInfrastructureVirtual Infrastructure ClientLauncherVpxClient.exe” -u administrator -p XXX -s 192.168.1.1 -locale en-US

Maybe it is not a good idea to save your password for your production environment in a link, but it is very helpful for you lab environment. If you do not add the -p parameter, it will ask you for the password, but the rest of the settings are filled out

Grüße Andy