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…
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…