Shawn Anderson's questions

How to I get additional HD's to be recognized and used by ESXi 4.0.

When I purchased my system I had two 2TB HD's, but when I installed ESXi it only recognized one of them. I'm happy to get whatever number of drives that I need (I have a four bay SATA in my Dell T310).

What are some options? RAID? If so, is it supported. I guess I would need hardware instead of software since ESXi is so small.

The VMWare forums (where I've lived for the last two days) are a charlie foxtrot of outdated and conflicting info.

I want to utilize my T310, with 32 GB RAM, 2.8GHz quad core to run many lab Windows VM's. I don't need production level availability but I do want decent performance, even though it's in a lab environment.

A huge thanks to Jim B., Zypher, Helvick, and Jeff Hengesbach who posted answers to my earlier predecessor question on why ESXi was so sluggish.

I've recently moved from VMWare Server to ESXi 4.0. Running on Dell T310. My VM's have been restored but they are running dog slow compared to VMWare Server. I loaded ESXi 4.0 using only default values.

Where are some areas where I can tweak the performance? Even logging onto the VM's can be extremely sluggish. Trying to install software on any of them is a new experience in pain.

Dell PowerEdge T310
Xeon X3460 2.80 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 HD (2 TB)

I have 16 VM's on this server, but only six or so will be running during my testing. I keep an eye on the Resource Allocation and Performance tabs for the host and I never see CPU or RAM getting anywhere close to pegged. Events tab does show some notices for video RAM issues and some hints on Windows activation issues, but nothing that would point to the sort of sluggishness that I'm experiencing.

1 Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) - 4 GB RAM
1 Windows 7 (32-bit) - 2 GB RAM
1 Vista (32-bit) - 1 GB RAM
3 XP (32-bit) - 1 GB RAM

Over to you!

Thanks - Shawn

I need to edit a file in place within a perl script, so the oft used one liner:

perl -p -e s/<value>/<value>/ig 

will not work for this situation. How do I get the same results from within a perl script?

open(CRONTAB, "+<file" || die "...";

while (<CRONTAB>) { 
   if ($_ =~ /value/) {  
      s/^\#+//;  
      print "$_\n";  
   }  
}

My print is showing exactly what I want. It's just the in place edit that I'm looking for.

OK, I've used TOAD in the past and it's pretty cool, but I don't feel like spending that kind of coin. What other Oracle 10g SQL editors are there?

Note: I don't need tuning tools, simply SQL query tools.