New KB articles published for week ending 11/16/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Storage Expo
Today we attended the Storage Expo in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Basically there was very little news but it was nice to see some nice features live in action and get some hands-on experience. We visited Dell EqualLogic, HP, Lefthand, EMC, etc and…
VMware employee confirms DPM support in next release
Last night I was reading some virtualization blogs (vblogs ;-) ) and an article on boche.net caught my eye. This article stated that a VMware employee, Richard Garsthagen, revealed that after a very long period of waiting VMware decided that it’s going to support Distributed…
VMware’s Mobile Virtualization Platform
VMware announced the Mobile Virtualization Platform. WIth it it should be possible to run multiple operating systems next to eachother on a smartphone. MVP is built on technology acquired from Trango Virtual Processors in October 2008. MVP will help handset vendors reduce development time and…
ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 3
Today VMware has released ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 3. In the release notes I found the following changes: Increased number of vCPUs per core limit (from 8 to 20); New supported servers, NICs and storage I/O controllers; New supported Guest Operating Systems. Besides that there are…
ESXi update fails with fault.PatchIntegrityError.summary
Yesterday I installed 5 new ESXi3.5 host at a client site, installed VirtualCenter and VMware Update Manager. I configured all hosts with storage, networking, licensing and ntp settings. All looked fine and ready to rock. One last action before starting with our test plan was…
VMware to cut prices by 10% next Monday
The talk of the town is that VMware is going to reduce their prices with 10% by next Monday, November 3rd. This news comes from MicroScope. As the articles correctly states this move counter the previous 10% price increase that VMware introduced September 1st, generating…
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant 1.0
This week VMware released VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant 1.0 (VIMA). VIMA is a free virtual machine on which VMware administrators can execute scripts and install agents that they would normally try to run on the console operating system (COS) like UPS agents, etc. The VMware…
Cisco and VMware networking
Looking for information about iSCSI, Cisco and VMware I stumbled onto a document which I want to share with all of you. Want to know about vswitches, portgroups, security, ether channels, scalability, security, performance, VLAN tagging, N-port ID virtualization, iSCSI implementations? In ‘VMware Infrastructure 3…
Presentations ‘LIVE’ from VMworld 2008
October 13th I met Eric Sloof, the man behind NTPRO.NL, at the VMware Partner Forum 2008 in Brasschaat. He was busy filming various presentations. Today I visited Erik’s site and discovered his video collection. If you are interested in the ‘live’ presentations of VMWorld 2008…
New ESXi4 feature – Fault tolerance
For all who have not seen ESXi4 beta or presentations at VMWorld 2008, VMware announced a new feature called Fault Tollerance (FT). A system with two virtual machines in an active/passive configuration. All instructions that are executed on the active virtual machine are copied over…
Technical challenges
Sorry, my bad! But I cleaned up my own mess….. Grtx, TAZZ Hello folks, Our brand new site is going like crazy. Unfortunately some “not to be named” human element in our infrastructure caused a minor glitch in the website’s config. Therefore subpages may not…
VMware ESX vs Microsoft Hyper-V
On Gabes Virtual World I read an article with the title ‘Unbelievable Hyper-V performance ‘. At first I was a bit shocked by the title. Hyper-V good performance? That the complete opposite to my own experience with Microsofts virtualization attempt. But luckily what Gabe ment…
New VAC Manager for Benelux
I just recieved an e-mail presenting Hervé Clement as the new VMware VAC Manager for the Benelux. […] “This is with great pleasure that I’m joining today the VAC Benelux communauty as the Manager of the VAC Program for Benelux. I’ve been working with VMware…
VMware High Availabilty explained
With the release of VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 U3 VMware implemented a few interesting changes in it’s Availability implementation. In this document VMware HA and the latest changes are described in detail. This document is intended for experienced HA cluster admins who are…