DELL programmable display fun
DELL has some nice features on their servers, like a programmable display. Thanks to Erik we got a nice vmguru.nl commercial :-) Erik is in the process of implementing a virtual infrastrcuture with VMware View for an internal project for our Service Center. Here he…
New articles published for week ending 2/15/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
T minus 1 week
Were now 1 week from the start of VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes. We are packing our bags, getting transportion to the airport and charging all batteries. Not only the batteries for our cameras, notebooks, PDAs, smartphones, etc but also my biological battery. This to…
Clean up before a P2V
Yesterday I made one of the mistakes I always warn my collegues about. I always tell them: “Make sure you know the situation before you change anything”. For some strange reason I made that mistake myself this time. I just started a migration and got…
vCenter Server Heartbeat announced
Yesterday VMware announced a new vCenter Server add-on, VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat. As customers expand their use of VMware, maintaining a highly available management infrastructure is quickly becoming a key requirement. So VMware created a high availability solution for vCenter Server. Today I participated in…
New articles published for week ending 2/8/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
T minus 2 weeks
Were now 2 weeks from the start of VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes. We are looking for substitutes to take over our projects and are clearing our schedules because we are at Cannes last week of February. Many colleagues ask us if we are going…
New “user registration” page and procedure
You know we encourage feedback on posts made here and we love to hear from all of you out there. Unfortunately we had quite some fake registrations in the last few weeks so I changed the registration procedure. New users will need to be activated…
Crashing VMware licensing service
While working on a VMware implementation at a client site, we came upon a problem when we wanted to start HA for the ESX cluster. The notification we received was “Unable to aquire licenses because license source is unavailable”. The notification in itself is clear…
VMware releases new ROI caclulator
I came across this and didn’t want to hold it from you. VMware released a new version of their ROI calculator. Tom Pisello posted about this on his blog. http://tompiselloroiguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/vmware-launches-new-version-of-roi-tco.html Remember though that the ROI calculator takes a lot of factors into consideration, but not…
Love for VMware starts at 8 months
Last year when I attended VMWorld Europe 2008 my wife was 9 months pregnant. As a souvenir I brought a little VMware teddy bear and a VMWorld bib with the text ‘Embracing your Virtual World – VMWORLD 2008‘. He is now 8 months old and…
One or multiple virtual disks?
Yesterday I read an article form Carlo Costanzo from VMwareInfo.com about the need for multiple disks in a virtualized environment. This is a discussion much like the physical/virtual vCenter issue. When you create a virtual machine do you need to create multiple virtual disks or…
Knowledge base articles 01/31/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Patch for SCSI issue with VMware ESX
After ESX 3.5 update 3 there was the risk for I/O failure to your SAN. It presents itself like: VMware ESX or ESXi host might get disconnected from VirtualCenter All paths to the LUNs are in standby state esxcfg-rescan might take a long time to complete…
VMware VI Toolkit Update to 1.5
VMware recently introduced the new and improved VI Toolkit, version 1.5 VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. You can download now this new version…