What’s new in VMware vSphere 4 training
Today we attended the new ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere‘ 4 training and who better to get us up-to-date than Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl. Eric already caught us on camera this morning while we were doing the labs so we thought we should return the…
New articles published for week ending 4/26/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thoughts on high availability
With all the news and buzz around vSphere it’s easy to get carried away by all the new stuff appearing. But even with all these new features we still need to think about High Availability and how to design the infrastructure. Everytime we design a…
VMware View problems
After a long day configuring various pools for VMware View I got some strange warning in the log from VMware View: Missing VM was not in the original query: vm-234 I don’t like errors, especially in a newly configured server. in this case it also…
Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
The last few weeks many blogs and forums have spend time on hypervisor comparisons and I have read tons of articles on the subject. Many only compare hypervisors based on performance, features or cost. I think it’s a bit more complicated then that. After Citrix…
VMware Fault Tolerance & CPUs
With the launch of VMware vSphere this week there are some new features to play with. One of the most interesting features, I think, is VMware FT (Fault Tolerance). Implementation of this features introduces some new caveats, in the case of FT you can not…
Rescan plugin for vCenter
For the project I’m doing now I had to add VMFS volumes to eight servers. Not that I’m lazy, but with a couple of ESX hosts and still adding volumes it kinda gets nasty to do a rescan on all systems. Thankfully I remembered a…
vSphere 4 NL product launch
Today I, and two other colleagues, attended the vSphere 4 producct launch in Houten the Netherlands. The subject was Efficiency, control and Choice just as in the webcast from yesterday evening. Jeremy presented the overall vSphere product and after a short break Ton Hermes presented…
Determining VMware Software Version and Build Number
I am just writing an observation report about a virtual infrastructure based upon VMware ESX and was wondering which version the customer is running Virtual Center at the moment. After asking my vExpert colleagues 8-) they pointed me to the help menu and the about…
VMware announces vSphere 4
This morning a message from John Troyer popped up on my TwitterFox telling me that on April 20th VMware announced the general availability of their new flagship product, VMware vSphere 4. Finally after all our time beta testing and filling out reviews vSphere is coming!…
New articles published for week ending 4/19/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Upgrade XP to Windows 7 fails big time
Although this has nothing to do with virtualization I do not want to keep this from you. This weekend I tried to update one of my desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7 build 7077. Under the assumption that the Windows 7 setup would warn…
Webcast: Build an Intelligent Datacenter with VMware and Dell
Title: Webcast: Build an Intelligent Datacenter with VMware and Dell Location: Online Link out: Click here Description: our challenge is to bring virtualization into your datacenter to reduce cost and simplify management. But with the wrong path you can build a datacenter that achieves only…
New articles published for week ending 4/12/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware View advanced networking
The last few months I have been busy designing, building and testing a new VMware View solution for our own Support Center. In this Support Center we do support and system administration for some of our biggest clients. One of the challenges is the use…