IT is no 9 to 5 business
IT is no 9 to 5 business. I must admit, some of the time it is my own doing, but sometimes it should be avoidable. I had a discussion with a coworker in the sales department about this. I said that we spend more time…
New KB articles published for week ending 11/23/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Some video’s for the weekend
I just got my hands on a laptop in our dance school (something with digitizing video’s as an excuse :)) so I thought it would be funny to post some links to some VMware related video’s for the slow monday morning.. Just to get back…
VMware licensing change
Today I received a reminder of the September VMware licensing change. In short a processor may now contain a maximum of 6 cores instead of 4. Prices have not changed. This is very good news for VMware end users who can benefit from increased processor…
Centric/VMware event
Title: Centric/VMware event Location: Koperen Hoogte, Zwolle, The Netherlands Language: Dutch Register: Click here Description: An event organised by Centric together with VMware. VDI and SRM presentation and demos will be given. Speakers: Ton Hermes (VMware), Willem van Engeland (VMware), Edwin Weijdema(Centric), Marcel Timmermans (Centric),…
Virtualizing Exchange
A lot of companies still have some doubts or fears for virtualizing Exchange, so I compiled some information on virtualization Exchange on VMware ESX. There are already a lot of articles and posts on this subject. Below you find a couple of links to these…
SRM in a box
It’s a new hype and many blog have reported on this subject, ‘SRM in a box‘ I’m not going to write a totaly new blog on this subject, instead I will give you a few nice links and give all credits to Tomas Ten Dam,…
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’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…
Don’t enable root access for SSH
I came across some scripts to run on your ESX server after it has been installed. These script did some stuff like disabling firewall and enabling root logon from a remote system. Although it looks like it makes your life easier now you can logon…
Tip: Create an ISO store, no matter what
In one of our previous projects we suggested a LUN to use for ISO’s. The client said: ‘Well, we don’t need one, we have all our software on network shares and operating systems are deployed by the means of an unattended install with boot from…
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…
VMware podcasts
VMware has a couple of nice podcasts which give you some insight in their products. These podcast are already avaiable for some time but I wouldn’t hold this from you. Couple of podcast mentioned on the site: Introduction to Virtualization Top 4 differences between ESXi…
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…
