VMware VXLAN Deployment Guide

Vyenkatesh Deshpande recently published "VMware Network Virtualization Design Guide" which can be downloaded here. However deployment guide which is here is very valuable if you really want to implement VXLAN in your environment.

Using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/04/using-the-vsphere-esxi-image-builder-cli.html

VMware PowerCLI - prepare environment after installation

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore

Finding slow draining devices

Very nice explanation
http://www.virtualinstruments.com/sanbestpractices/best-practices/finding-slow-draining-devices/

"Slow drain device" definition
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/sanblog/entry/defining_san_performance_related_terms9?lang=en_us

How to deal with slow drain devices?
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/sanblog/entry/how_to_deal_with_slow_drain_devices20?lang=en

Brocade tools for identification of "slow draining devices"
http://community.brocade.com/thread/4010?start=0&tstart=0

And here is the CISCO way how to detect "slow draining devices"
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/nx-os/configuration/guides/int/int_cli_4_2_published/intf.html#wp1703520

And here is excellent whitepaper how proactively monitor SAN and storage related issues
http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/avoiding-san-performance-problems-whitepaper.pdf