Troubleshooting VM network connections
When I am troubleshooting I like to have a list of items I can check for either in my head or on paper. Amongst the knowledge base articles of VMware, I found an article about troubleshooting VMs that are having network connection issues. The article…
Centric promoted to VMware Premier Partner
We already reported this in March as we had some inside information but now it is official. Centric has been promoted to VMware Premier Partner and to celebrate we had a little get-together with VMware two weeks ago. This is great news as there are…
Spam abuse on the site
Hello Folks, Recently we opened up the site for comments without registration. We really love the feedback we get from you guys out there. It’s a motivator to keep up the work we’re doing. So keep commenting! :) However, there is one downside to this….
Upgrading VMware ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 (vSphere)
Yesterday we did an upgrade from an ESX 3.5 host to ESX 4.0 using the VMware Upgrade Manager. I must say it’s cool to see how you can upgrade your ESX hosts and after that you can schedule the updates for your virtual machines with…
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