VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 update 4
Although I wasn’t able to join the VMGuru team to Cannes I can still blog about newly released products from VMware. One of those newly released products is the 4th update for VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 containing: Customization support for Windows 2008 server VM’s Performance overview…
Needed ports and services for a P2V
While reading some documents from Anne Jan and Erik about migrations of physical machines by means of P2V I noticed there was information about the ports that are being used for this migration: Physical machine to the converter server port 443 Converter server to physical…
Troubleshooting Blackberries after P2V
Earlier this week Anne Jan and I migrated a physical server with P2V with Blackberry Entetrprise Server. After the migration we of course asked the client to test all the services and application on that server. At that time all seemed just fine, but today…
Citrix tuning when running on VMware
After making a P2V of a couple of physical Citrix servers at a client, Anne Jan and I did some tuning for the best performance. Since the servers were on old hardware they now are already faster, but we wanted to get the most out…
Upgrading VMware vCenter server
While building the virtual enviroment for a client we are getting a lot of questions about how they should handle certain aspects in their new enviroment. One of those questions is how they should handle upgrades, best practices etc.
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…
Deploying Exchange 2007 server on VMware infrastructure
VMware is working hard on the view people have on virtualization. The recently made the following article available, wich covers the deployment of Exchange 2007 on a VMware infrastructure. VMware starts the article with the description of an “old” Exchange 2003 enviroment. From that point…
Real thin clients with Sunray
Yesterday AJ and me have been attending a seminar from Sun Microsystems about the Sunray. The Sunray is the next step in moving more processes into the backend and less hardware at the frontend. After a little introduction of the Sunray, Sible Schöne of the Climate…
VMware product name changes
A few product names of VMware’s product line have changed recently and while browsing some sites I suddenly noticed that I to was having trouble with these new names. Today when I was reading the new posts in the RSS feeds I noticed VMware posted…
Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 SP2
While reading some of the RSS feeds I stumbled onto an article about Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 SP2. Now you might say, what is so special about a servicepack? Well in this case it means that you can run IAG 2007 virtual!!! First off what…