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,…
Faulty HP ESXi 3.5 USBs
At the same client site where we had the problems with VMware Update Manager and ESXi we are now struggling with HA. We can NOT get it to work and even WMware support can NOT get it to work either. We have been on the…
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…
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…
VMware and PowerShell
I’m from the pre-WIMP era, like in pre Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointers. There wasn’t anything like a graphical user interface. Even when they emerged like Norton Commander and PC Tools I still did most of my work from the commandline. Stuff like 4DOS enriched my…
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…
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…