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…
Unable to VMotion, unable to disconnect ISO
We had a small issue today with a virtual machine at one of our customer sites. We were unable to do a VMotion. The message we got was that there was an ISO image connected to the system. Well, we tried all the standard things…
Intel selling half of its VMware shares
After the earlier news that Cisco was enlarging its stake in VMware now the news gets out that Intel sold half of its shares. Intel disclosed that it had recently sold 1 million shares in the virtualization software maker and plans to sell another 3.75…
VirtualCenter and SSL integration
Tired of all those security warnings when you logon to VirtualCenter? Jason Boche has written a comprehensive post on SSL integration for VirtualCenter. After you follow his instructions you can use your AD integrated Certicate Authority as a trusted source. Link to his guide: here…
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…
Virtualization is to blame
Virtualization is hot! A lot of companies are already virtualized or in the middle of a migration. The physical platform gets replaced by a virtual one. This directly introduces a new whipping boy. In the past users and administrators looked at stuff that could cause…
What if life was a virtual machine..
I spend a lot of hours in traffic jams lately. It’s really driving me nuts. All those break lights, slow moving cars.. Man, your mind starts to wonder.. ‘What if life was a virtual machine’? Life sure would get easier I think. Just look at…
VC Upgrade went haywire
Yesterday was a fun day. What looked like a simple, clean upgrade became something more interesting. After making a before snapshot I started the VirtualCenter installation wizard. Then the fun started. Nothing happened. Let me rephrase that. NOTHING happened. Machine hung. Clicking the reboot button…
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…