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July 03, 2009

Pump Up the Volume

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

You can change virtual machine disk configurations by adding new disks, changing disk sizes, and changing virtual device node settings. Since VMware ESX 3.5 U3, it’s possible to enlarge the size of a disk while the virtual machine is powered on. When you combine this new feature with the Dell…

by Eric Sloof at July 03, 2009 08:02 PM

Chad Sakac has beaten me

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

NTPRO.NL at the 4th place First of all, I would like to thank everyone who voted for NTPRO.NL in Eric Siebert's VMware Top Bloggers election. I was staying at a comfortable third place, but Chad Sakac over at Virtual Geek has beaten me. He went up from the 10th to the 3th place. Now I’m staying at…

by Eric Sloof at July 03, 2009 07:52 PM

The best thing I’ve found all year….

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

A couple of weeks ago I was asking my buddies on Tweet what their favourite way of repartitioning disks were. You know making a partition (any partition whether it it be the C: or D: drive) larger - ideally with the fewest simplest steps. For some years I’ve been using QParted from the rather…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 06:52 PM

VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

At August 31, 2009, you can join VMware's development engineers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the first VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day. This event is dedicated to all the developers building solutions on the VMware platforms and is co-located with VMworld 2009. As a…

by Eric Sloof at July 03, 2009 06:46 PM

A Collection of VIOPS

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

If you not familiar with the very good VIOPS website run by VMware - then you should add it to your feed burner ASAP because they are pumping out some very good articles recently. This article explains covers: Splitting the vCenter Database: “A centralized model to manage VMware Infrastructure may…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 06:29 PM

Is VMware More Like Novell or Oracle?

Economics of Virtualization (Steve Kaplan)

Gartner's David Cappuccio wonders if VMware will end up, like Novell, getting trounced by Microsoft. Differences in technologies and organizations make it more likely that VMware will continue to succeed like Oracle.

by Steve Kaplan at July 03, 2009 05:46 PM

Change Microcode in Xenserver/Everrun

virtualfuture.info (Huisman, Haverink, & Van Zanten)

Up until today I even didn’t know what Microcode or whatit’s purpose was. After today I’ve learned a lot about it and would like to share it with you.  ”Microcode is a layer of lowest-level instructions involved in the implementation of machine codeinstructions in many computers and other…

by Wouter Heije at July 03, 2009 04:22 PM

VMware Europe 2010 to change date?

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

A rummour abounds that VMworld Europe is going to change its date from its historic location (in Q2) to be just after VMworld US (Q3). I’m not quite sure about the rationale behind this - but here’s my stab. Firstly, the trip to the US has always been a financial big ask for some in [...]

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 03:01 PM

VMware vSphere4 VCP4 Beta Exam

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

The other day I recieved my invite to the VCP4 Beta Exam. I’ve scheduled the exam for the last day you can take it which is the 17th July. According to the invite email the real deal will be released sometime in August. I got the invite in part through being in the beta programme, [...]

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 02:51 PM

The Vendor/Client Relationship…

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

This video has done the rounds of the couple of virtualization blogs. But in case you missed it - here it again… It’s a humours take on the vendor/client relationship. You know if as individuals we behaved like the customers of big business did - what would be like. I get this all the time -…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 02:43 PM

Microsoft Finally shuts the **** up AND Is Free ESXi Really Free?

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

After days and days of Microsoft going on and on about VMware FUD. It sound like the easiest way to shut M$ up was just to admit defeat, and kill the story… http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/09/day-two-of-the-scott-drummond-vmware-fud-fiasco.aspx…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 02:31 PM

Running ESX4 on VMware Workstation 6/ESX4

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

Well, they were the first (as I can recall) to show who you could virtualize ESX 3 on VMware Workstation 6 - and they boys at xtravirt.com have done it again with ESX 4. The PDF is here… http://xtravirt.com/user?destination=/node/177 BUT, unfortuantely, you do have to register with the site to…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 02:06 PM

Browsing your virtual management layer…

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

This seems to becoming increasing popular. With many ISV falling over themselves to offer management of the virtualization layer from a mobile phone/PDA. Free as a technology preview is VMware’s Mobile Management Appliance: http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcmobileaccess Of course that…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 01:58 PM

Tarry Singh’s Book “Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2″

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

Tarry Singh has been busy writing a book about Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2. Here’s a high-level view on what it covers… Learn quickly to install Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Servers Learn to manage your Virtual Data Center using Oracle VM Manager Import VMs from the Web, template,…

by Mike Laverick at July 03, 2009 01:53 PM

Disaster Recovery inside-out for Dummies (with LSI)

IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre)

In this article, I'd like to document a setup I have been working on for a few days at the LSI office in Milano (great guys and free beverage there! Thanks!). LSI is the company from which IBM OEMs the DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000 lines of storage servers. Since I am trying to get a little bit more…

by Massimo at July 03, 2009 01:38 PM

What’s this white labelling stuff about?

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

Chris called (from a rather windy Canary Wharf)  to say he’d written up the document comparing the Dell and HP blades, originally he’d asked me here what the Dell version of  a BL460c was. Anyway, I was asking him how stuff was when he asked, “What’s white labeling and why do you go on…

by Martin at July 03, 2009 12:27 PM

Are you Cisco, VMware and Citrix certified – no are you?

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

What skills do you want from an engineer? Mike (that’s what we’ll call him) called me, like myself, he’s looking for work as a wintel engineer and he’d got a phone call from an agent: “We’ve got a Wintel role here, it’s to move some blades running Windows physical and virtual machines…

by Martin at July 03, 2009 12:06 PM

Talking about blades in my business – Join the debate as an end user, as a business

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/07/02/why_blades/ So far we’ve got some interesting comments, on the whole people would recommend blades to others, the survey shows that they are being used in different size sites. The most interesting comments we’ve had about issues experienced with blades are:…

by Martin at July 03, 2009 11:44 AM

vSphere and vmfs-undelete

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

This week someone asked me during the VMTN Podcast on chat if I knew where vmfs-undelete resided in vSphere. I had a look but couldn’t find it either. A quick search gave me this: vmfs-undelete utility is not available for ESX/ESXi 4.0 ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 3 included a utility called vmfs-…

by Duncan Epping at July 03, 2009 10:15 AM

VMware ESX(i) 4.0 (vSphere) -Connecting to an iSCSI Storage Target.

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

With a complete re-write of the iSCSI portion of the code, ESX 4(vSphere) provides better performance and useful features such as Jumbo Frame support and TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).  There is more reason than ever to consider iSCSI based share storage to house your VMs. There are many low cost…

by Kiwi Si at July 03, 2009 08:32 AM

Top 20 blogs revealed by Eric Siebert

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Eric Siebert just published the new TOP 10 Blogs. And Duncan Epping has published another 10 from Eric’s tweet. Those blogs are the blogs highest rated by bloggers. What is Eric saying on this list? There are a great many blogs in the VMware community right now and just because you are not on the…

by Vladan SEGET at July 03, 2009 07:30 AM

Session catalog VMworld 2009

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

I stumbled on the Session Catalog of the upcoming VMworld 2009 today. I’m not coming to VMworld 2009 because there is no sponsor willing to help me with the travel/accommodation expenses…. So while I was browsing the sessions, I stumbled and saw some interesting informations. In a new window…

by Vladan SEGET at July 03, 2009 04:57 AM

Cisco Nexus 5000 POC

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

The past one week have been busy with VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 5000 POC and the result is really disappointed. Personally I couldn’t believed and I think I may missed out something. If anyone have any idea or suggestion, please feel free to comment here or post reply at slow Performance…

by superman at July 03, 2009 03:58 AM

Holy sVmotion Fail Batman!

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

I thought I had covered failed sVmotion in a past post, or at least some of the symptoms. Alas, I can not find the post (either I fail at Google, or they fail at indexing my content… likely the first). During a recent sVmotion fail I came across a wonderful cleanup KB from vmware.com. From [...]

by bunchc at July 03, 2009 03:53 AM

A Canadian CAN make it to the medal podium!

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

Thank you all who voted – the tally is in, and I’m very honored to be held in this company in the #3 spot! http://vsphere-land.com/news/and-the-winners-of-the-vmware-top-blog-are.html To Duncan, Scott, Eric, Mike, Rich, Jason, Gabe, and MikeD – congratulations also, I do...

by Chad Sakac at July 03, 2009 03:41 AM

And the winners of the VMware top blog are…

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Eric Siebert just published the new TOP 10 Blogs. I want to thank every one who voted for me. I’m really surprised with the number of “#1″ votes I got. As you might notice compared to Eric’s own TOP-20 some people have moved up or down. I think the most noticeable is Gabe entering the [...]


by Duncan Epping at July 03, 2009 03:29 AM

And the winners of the VMware top blog are…

vSphere-land (Eric Siebert)

I’ve been putting together the top 10 and lately the top 20 VMware blogs based on a few factors but this time around I wanted to poll the user community to see what they thought the  top VMware blogs were. Well the people have spoken, there were about 350 votes cast, a few duplicates (I [...]

by esiebert7625 at July 03, 2009 01:44 AM

VMware Studio 2 Beta & vApps - Community Roundtable podcast #54

VMTN Blog (Technical Community [VMware])

The beta release of VMware Studio 2.0 and using it to create vApps was the topic of this week's podcast. Studio 1.0 came out last year; this beta moves the bar significantly. We also got into why you as a...

by John Troyer at July 03, 2009 12:43 AM

July 02, 2009

Using HP RGS with VMware View 3.1

VM Junkie (Justin Emerson)

So as I’m sure many people are aware, VMware will be shipping a protocol in the near future (with View 4, most likely) called PC-over-IP. In the meantime, however, VMware View 3.1 has included support for HP Remote Graphics Software, which provides a similar experience today (albeit not for free).…

by ermac318 at July 02, 2009 11:26 PM

Catalyst 2009 is Right Around the Corner

ChrisWolf.com (Chris Wolf)

This year’s Catalyst North America conference is in San Diego from July 27-31. With the speaker lineup all set, I thought it would be a good time to share more conference details. This year we have 2 1/2 days of cloud and virtualization coverage, with a special focus on architecture, performance,…

by Chris at July 02, 2009 09:01 PM

Port Group Network Security Policy Action

Virtual Black Hole / Tripwire (Steve Beaver)

I have done some posts on using PowerShell actions in vWire and have generally shared scripts that give basic functionality to do things like start and stop a virtual machine and other scripts to help gather more information like returning the contents of a log file, for example. Today's script ...

July 02, 2009 08:43 PM

VMworld Europe 2010

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

A couple of days ago I was informed that next years VMworld Europe will not be in February as usual but will be run immediately after VMworld USA.  I did not post then out of respect to my source. Just like Gabe, I cannot think of any plus points for this change.  I really cannot understand [...]

by Tom Howarth at July 02, 2009 08:22 PM

Relfex is looking for beta testers

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Relfex is looking for software beta testers to help with their pending release. If you fall into the following criteria and would like to participate, please send an email to (mike at reflexsystems.com) and he will get you further details about the software and expectations. There will be incentives…

by Eric Sloof at July 02, 2009 08:09 PM

VMware Developer Center - Welcomes Orchestrator API Developers

Developer Center Blog (SDK Team [VMware])

Folks,

We just created an Orchestrator API community and welcome all VMware vCenter Orchestrator API developers to participate and help us build a robust community. Please join us, participate and share.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/orchestrator

Regards,

Pablo

by heyitspablo at July 02, 2009 07:38 PM

Rumor !!! VMworld US 2010 and VMworld Europe 2010 in same month

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

Twitter is a great source of information confirmed and unconfirmed. I just learned from a tweet by vegard_s that VMware has plans to hold VMworld US and VMworld Europe as a back-to-back event. In...

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by Gabe at July 02, 2009 07:10 PM

vSheild Zones My First Look

2 VCP's and a Truck (Jon Owings)

So my first experience trying to deploy the new vShield Zones security product included in VMware's vSphere.

First vShield Zones is different than VMsafe. The way I understand it is the vShield Zones is like your border security but inside of the vSphere. It divides and segregates networks and…

by Jon Owings (noreply@blogger.com) at July 02, 2009 07:01 PM

June Wrap-Up

vTeardown (Horschman, Gray, Hong, Montakhab [VMware])

Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and…

by Matt at July 02, 2009 05:56 PM

From The Open Road: Will “good enough” virtualization topple VMware?

VMHero (Ryan)

Matt Asay just posted an interesting article about how virtualization products such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V could potentially make VMware turn out like Novell. His article has a point. While VMware is widely known as one of the best virtualization products out there, it could change in the future…

by Todd at July 02, 2009 05:25 PM

VMware Developer Day - Registration is open !

Developer Center Blog (SDK Team [VMware])


Folks,

Just wanted to let everyone know registration is open for VMworld Developer Day. We will be publishing Session and Demo details in a few days. Note event is open to all, and even better you get a FREE vSphere Standard License as part of the package of goodies.. more details to come.

by heyitspablo at July 02, 2009 05:21 PM

New Timekeeping KB article

VMware Knowledge Base Blog (VMware Knowledge Base Team [VMware])

Today we published what someone here termed the Grand-daddy of all KB's for Timekeeping issues with Linux guests. This is a frequently discussed topic in our forums and in the blogosphere in general, and the new KB is meant to...

by Knowledge Champion at July 02, 2009 05:16 PM

Why do we use blade servers?

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

I thought we’d do a quick survey, I would be very grateful if you filled it in for me, as ever there are only 7 questions and I don’t ask for any personal or company information (on the basis that we’re all busy). The survey is to examine the mind set on blade servers, why we’re [...]

by Martin at July 02, 2009 04:48 PM

Live, from Cisco Live 2009

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

It’s been a busy 3 days, after 3 panels (one on what VMware/Cisco/EMC are doing for service providers, one for customers, and an open panel (VMware, Cisco, EMC, Oracle, Emerson, APC, NetApp and Panduit)– which was a gas around the...

by Chad Sakac at July 02, 2009 04:00 PM

I have been away a week “shock & horror” (This should have gone out a good few weeks past :D )

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

This should have been published a couple of weeks ago and is really old news but I thought it interesting enough to show. I have been away for a week and it seems little there has been an invasion of evilness at Palo Alto. I think that they really need to have a word with their PR/Marketing [...]

by Tom Howarth at July 02, 2009 03:27 PM

What’s the Dell version of a HP BL460c?

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

I got called on the mobile whilst loading the dishwasher this morning, “What’s the Dell version of a HPBL460c?” asked my good friend Chris in his air conditioned office in Canary Wharf (it’s rather hot in the UK today between 28-30 degrees C). I’m in italics. At this point in case we’re…

by Martin at July 02, 2009 02:53 PM

vSphere VCP4 beta is out.

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

After watching twitter for the last couple of days and seeing the tweets about the Beta.   I had given up on receiving an Invite, so you can image my surprise when this morning I found an email in my inbox from the VMware Certification team, inviting me to register and take the beta exam for [...]

by Tom Howarth at July 02, 2009 02:51 PM

RES software

VMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema)

A few days ago Edwin and me had some employees from RES software visiting us, giving us a demo of the RES Powerfuse and RES Wisdom products. While both these products introduce interresting features, RES Powerfuse is the one I would like to eleberate on since this product has potential within the…

by Grissa at July 02, 2009 02:48 PM

Disaster Recovery an Afterthought?

Virtual Enthusiasm (Clint Eschberger)

In my role I get to listen to they way a lot of CIO and IT leaders think. To be honest I know how they feel as IT has generally been looked down upon by the rest of the business. You always have "critical" projects, hardware refreshes, new software, support, and a whole lot of infrastructure…

by nospam@example.com (Clint Eschberger) at July 02, 2009 02:13 PM

Top 20 Articles for June 2009

VMware Knowledge Base Blog (VMware Knowledge Base Team [VMware])

Here are our top 20 most used articles for the month of June. Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter (1004588) Consolidating snapshots (1007849) Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212) Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best...

by Amandeep Gill at July 02, 2009 01:24 PM

Pingbacks Not Suited For Dirty Minds: XenItalia.com

virtualization.com

It's always nice to get pingbacks on our blog posts, but sometimes they can be confusing, especially to people with a dirty mind.

by Robin Wauters at July 02, 2009 12:27 PM

Diskeeper Offers Complimentary License for XP Mode on Windows 7

virtualization.com

Diskeeper Corporation announced today that their End User Licence Agreement (EULA) has been updated to allow an additional complimentary license of Diskeeper 2009 for Microsoft’s elite and business customers of Windows 7’s XP mode.

by Robin Wauters at July 02, 2009 12:17 PM

Invitation to the VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 Beta Exam

VMware Tips (Rick Scherer)

This morning I wake up to find an e-mail from the VMware Certification department, inviting me to take the VCP4 Beta Exam. This is pretty exciting, yet it disappoints me because it reminds me that I still have not received my VCDX Design Exam Beta results (going on 3 months now). However, I did talk…

by Rick Scherer at July 02, 2009 12:17 PM

VirtenSys Delivers Solution to Virtualize Servers’ Direct-Attached Storage and Disk Drives

virtualization.com

VirtenSys today announced the industry’s first virtualization of storage controllers and disk drives in servers. With this achievement, VirtenSys becomes the first company to consolidate and optimize the most commonly deployed networking and storage connectivity in servers.

by Robin Wauters at July 02, 2009 12:15 PM

National Blog Posting Month

vTeardown (Horschman, Gray, Hong, Montakhab [VMware])

Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with great success! There’s also NaBloPoMo, which has nothing to do with post-modernism, but with blogging!…

by Heather at July 02, 2009 08:59 AM

The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization - Part 5

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

The Cultural Impacts

The last post covered cost models and changes needed to adopt virtualization, this post will cover the cultural change aspect of the technology within a company.

As typical with technology, change is constant but always a battle as many people do not embrace it. …

by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Key) at July 02, 2009 08:23 AM

PowerCLI To WMI via PowerWF

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In this demo Ben (@xcud) takes a PowerCLI script that's been transcribed into workflow activities and drop a 'ToWMI' activity at the end which causes the workflow to push the data retrieved from PowerCLI into WMI when the workflow is run. The workflow is set to run automatically every 5 seconds by…

by Eric Sloof at July 02, 2009 07:52 AM

Virtualization Migration Solutions Overview and Feature Compare Matrix

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Peter van den Bosch, Senior infrastructure Consultant over at PQR has released a new whitepaper. This matrix compares the features of the industry’s most popular virtualization migration products. The focus of the differences between the products is there migration possibilities. The products…

by Eric Sloof at July 02, 2009 07:01 AM

The Virtual Glue

Virtually Insane? (Daniel Eason)

Available today is latest beta release of VMware Studio 2.0 beta which enables you to create pre compiled Virtual Appliances, you can then create them as OVF's and also add these appliances into a new form of grouping applications in vSphere called vApps. With VMware studio offerings you can compile…

by Daniel Eason (noreply@blogger.com) at July 02, 2009 07:59 AM

Save and Claim the lost storage space with thin provisionning

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

/* Thin provisionning is a subject which passions me a lot. So when I saw an article written by Gabrie van Zanten. I read carefully to see if I find something that I do not know about. Believe me, I found a good stuff you’ll want to hear about. Gabrie is an experienced virtualization architect.…

by Vladan SEGET at July 02, 2009 04:30 AM

Is standard RDP 7 ready for everyday desktop replacement? I’m on a mission to find out!

BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden)

I’ve been writing about remote display protocols for over six years now. In that time I’ve written about performance, user experience, bandwidth, and latency. I’ve written about the importance of the display protocol in a desktop replacement environment , where real users will use the protocol…

by Brian Madden at July 02, 2009 04:01 AM

Update Manager does not download host updates

VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)

Scenario: You build a brand new vCenter and Update Manager server. After the installation is complete, you decide to get a jump on things by starting the download of all the ESX/ESXi host updates. You force Update Manager to download updates and the task completes surprisingly fast for the amount…

by jason at July 02, 2009 02:22 AM

Setting up a Splunk Server to Monitor a VMware Environment

Daily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery)

In a previous article, I compared syslog servers and decided to use Splunk. Splunk is easy to set up as a generic Syslog server, but it can be a pain in the ass getting the winders machines to send to it. There is a home brewed java based app on the Splunk repository of user [...]

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by Dave Convery at July 02, 2009 12:24 AM

July 01, 2009

Veeam announces Veeam Business View

Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)

Doug Hazelman, Director of the Global Systems Engineer Group, just notified me of a new Veeam product. It should be publicly available some time next week. Veeam Business View provides IT-personnel with a new and fresh way to look at your virtual environment. Grouping VMs in any way you see fit,…

by j.piscaer at July 01, 2009 11:17 PM

VMware Studio 2.0 and OVF Exports: Blurred Products or Outside The Box Thinking?

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

VMware has recently announced the public availability of the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta, a tool to create virtual appliances and distribute them in OVF format, and today’s VMTN Roundtable Podcast provided a lot of discussion about the possible scenarios for using this new version. I’m still…

by Rich at July 01, 2009 10:49 PM

Indirection, Abstraction, Pools and Policies – the UCS simple approach

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

In Day 3 of the UCS Training, I had another moment of epiphany (in addition to Brush up your drawing skills): if you use its Indirection, Abstraction, Pool and Policy capabilities then you should have limited hands-on after it has been deployed.  This means you are codifying system complexities…

by Steve Chambers at July 01, 2009 08:19 PM

DMZ Virtualization Using VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch

VMware Security Blog (Security Team [VMware])

One of the most exciting new features of vSphere 4 is the ability to use a virtual switch from a 3rd party networking vendor, and the first instantiation of this is the Cisco Nexus 1000V. With this in place, network...

by Charu Chaubal at July 01, 2009 07:44 PM

ftCLI.pl – VMware Fault Tolerance Management

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

William Lam did it again. He created a script that manages FT from the command line. The script is called ftCLI.pl and here are the details: Description: Managing VMware Fault Tolerance via the command line. Params: The following operations are supported: create|enable|disable|stop Requirement:…

by Duncan Epping at July 01, 2009 07:04 PM

Announcing the VMware Coffee Talk Live Webinars - First Wed. of the Month 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

Developer Center Blog (SDK Team [VMware])

Welcome to our VMware Coffee Talk Live Webinars. The goal of our webinars is to communicate latest information about our SDKs and Toolkits to our developers and scripters integrating and automating with the vSphere platform. Our meetings will be held the first Wednesday of the month from 9:00 am –…

by heyitspablo at July 01, 2009 06:41 PM

vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter AppSpeed and vCenter Chargeback

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In July, VMware will release several new and updated products that are part of the VMware vCenter family of management products: vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter AppSpeed and vCenter Chargeback.

  • AppSpeed 1.0
  • Chargeback 1.0
  • CapacityIQ 1.0
  • Lab Manager 4.0
  • Lifecycle Manager 1.1

by Eric Sloof at July 01, 2009 06:31 PM

How-To: Disable Debug Mode in Workstation 7.0 Beta

Daily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery)

OK… I know the wonks at VMware will frown upon this one, but someone posted a similar hack for WS 6.5 beta, so here it is for WS 7.0 beta. I finally got around to installing the beta code this morning and immediately saw a performance issue. VMware Workstation Beta runs in debug mode by [...]

by Dave Convery at July 01, 2009 06:14 PM

New project I am involved with...

virtualization stuff (Mark Mac Auley)

This is about the Good Men Project. It's very different from the beers and boobs stuff that's out there. I can only hope it becomes as popular as Postsecret...

http://www.goodmenbook.org/about-the-book.html

The Good Men Project is an anthology of essays about what it means to be a man in America…

by Mark Mac Auley (identitystuff@gmail.com) at July 01, 2009 06:34 PM

OMG PrimalForms

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Rather than post the content on both sites, I encourage you to take a gander at our sister PowerShell site for this one. On ThePowerShellTalk.com I’ve published a new script to find snapshots using PrimalForms to generate a UI. While this may not be Earth shattering news for some of you,…

by bunchc at July 01, 2009 05:18 PM

ESXi 3.5.0 Update 4 Host Disconnects

vmprofessional (Dominic Rivera, Jae Ellers)

I've run into a problem on ESXi 3.5.0 Update 4 where the ESX host will disconnect, and then shortly after the VMs will stop responding on the network. If you catch the ESXi host fast enough and get to the unsupported console this command can get you back up and running quickly:#> /sbin/services.sh…

by Dominic Rivera (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 05:58 PM

Configuring Citrix NetScaler to Load Balance VMware View Connection Brokers

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Currently with VMware View 3.1, multiple Connection Brokers are required to provide a robust redundant environment.  Enter Citrix’s NetScalers. Among their numerous features, they provide excellent Global Service Load Balancing and monitoring.  Jeff...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 05:19 PM

VMware Studio 2 Beta Available

Punching Clouds (Rawlinson Rivera [VMware])

With the release of the vSphere platform, VMware has most definitely brought some incredible new features to the table uch as vApps, a tool that allows users to package multi-tier applications and manage them as if they were a single object from the vCenter inventory. If  you’re associated with…

by Rawlinson at July 01, 2009 03:32 PM

Safely implementing VMsafe-aware virtual appliances in your data center

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

VMsafe-aware virtual appliances can subject a virtualization environment to security risks, but smart administration can help you avoid a breach.

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by Edward Haletky, Contributor at July 01, 2009 03:22 PM

The votes are in: Favorite vSphere enhancements

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

Now that users have started using vSphere, I wanted to know which new technologies in the latest ESX platform release are most popular. I ran two polls on my website, and the survey results are in: Thin provisioning is the favorite new major enhancement and alarm improvements are the favorite…

by Eric Siebert at July 01, 2009 03:13 PM

Virtualizing Microsoft SQL? Consider per-processor licensing

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

In a recent SearchVMware.com tip, I outlined situations where it does not make sense to have SQL or Exchange virtualized. The bottom line is that licencing depends on many factors, and you need to consider licencing when virtualizing such applications or you could end up spending more money than…

by Rick Vanover at July 01, 2009 02:26 PM

Cisco the arms dealer

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Cisco are running their annual conference, Cisco Live in San Francisco and its their 20th birthday. Its huge with around 10,000 people I think and its up there with VMworld on interesting events for the year.

Some great bloggers are doing some daily video summaries which you can see at the Cisco DCN…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 03:14 PM

Top VMware Bloggers

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

A few weeks ago Eric Siebert decided it was time to update his list of top VMware blogs.

Eric has been running his top 20 list on vLaunchpad which he based on the following criteria.
  1. The first is posting frequency, if a blogger has not posted in many weeks or months I generally disqualify them. I’m…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 02:33 PM

Republished: Dispelling Some VMware over NFS Myths

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

This post is one of a series of posts that I published at Storage Monkeys in late 2008, but it appears that all of this content has now gone offline. I'll be republishing relevant posts here over the next few weeks. In this post, I discuss myths regarding VMware over NFS.

This article was originally…

by slowe at July 01, 2009 01:13 PM

vMotion issues (78%)

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

In the current series of posts I am writing on running a vSphere lab on ESX 1 2 and 3, I wanted to set up an NFS shared storage between my 2 ESX hosts to test vMotion.

I ran into an interesting issue which I could hardly find any mention of on the web.

We all know that there are countless amount of…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 01:45 PM

Will Oracle kill Sun virtualization too?

Server Virtualization Blog (SearchServerVirtualization.com)

Oracle has stopped selling Virtual Iron products, terminated its Virtual Iron reseller agreements and seen the departures of two top Virtual Iron execs. We still don’t know what Oracle’s plans are for the Virtual Iron technology it acquired in May, but in light of these developments, a much…

by Colin Steele at July 01, 2009 12:39 PM

Not possible to resize /var/log on vSphere 4 Host

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

As my previous experienced, if you having a disk space full on /var, the host server will hung and all the VMs on the host will stop functioning. I had my test machine setup as default configuration, which the /var/log only allocated for 2GB in place. Prior to move the system to production, I decide…

by craig at July 01, 2009 11:43 AM

Command-line OVF Deployments

vApp Developer Blog (VMware vApp & Studio Teams [VMware])

In the previous blog post, I showed how to deploy a multi-tiered OVF package using the Deploy OVF Template Wizard in the vSphere Client. The interactive workflow provided by the vSphere Client is hard to beat in terms of ease of use and simplicity. However, the graphical user interface also has it…

by Rene W. Schmidt at July 01, 2009 11:40 AM

Xtravirt Whitepaper about virtualizing Active Directory

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

This week I noticed a relative new Whitepaper (released mid-June) from Xtravirt. The whitepaper is titled “Considerations when virtualizing Active Directory” and covers some do’s and don’t about running active directory in a virtualized environment. I like this paper because it’s compact…

by Gerben at July 01, 2009 11:06 AM

Sun Microsystems Unleashes VirtualBox 3.0, Adds Many Server Virtualization Features

virtualization.com

Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its cross-platform virtualization software.

by Robin Wauters at July 01, 2009 09:26 AM

Red Hat Launches Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program

virtualization.com

Red Hat today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers.

by Robin Wauters at July 01, 2009 09:22 AM

ScaleMP Completes vSMP Foundation Certification For HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Server Blades

virtualization.com

ScaleMP completed certification of vSMP Foundation for HP ProLiant BL280c G6 server blades offering the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series.

by Robin Wauters at July 01, 2009 09:17 AM

ASG Debuts New Virtualization Management Solution, Aims To Eliminate Virtual Sprawl

virtualization.com

ASG Software Solutions, the originator of ASG's Business Service Portfolio (BSP), today announced the immediate availability of ASG's BSP Virtualization Management, a new solution that monitors the real-time performance, health, and efficiency of both virtual and physical IT environments.

by Robin Wauters at July 01, 2009 09:05 AM

Lenovo’s Latest Servers Well Suited For Virtualization

virtualization.com

Lenovo today announced its latest line of servers, the ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers as well as the RD210 and RD220 rack servers.

by Robin Wauters at July 01, 2009 08:59 AM

Know what you’re talking about : get a free hyper-v training

virtualfuture.info (Huisman, Haverink, & Van Zanten)

As a technical consultant and VMware enthousiast I’m very often evangalizing the power and beauty of VMware and it’s products but I also have to face it that Microsoft’s share in the Hardware Virtualization space is growing. I have to know what I’m talking about when suggesting that VMware…

by Matthijs Haverink at July 01, 2009 08:52 AM

The first “real” layering product? MokaFive’s new v2.0 looks pretty good!

BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden)

Last week MokaFive released version 2 of their desktop virtualization product (which I don’t think really has a name apart from just “MokaFive.”). If you’re not familiar with MokaFive, they’re a desktop virtualization software company that’s focused on managing client-side virtual…

by Brian Madden at July 01, 2009 06:43 AM

William Lam releases ftCLI.pl – VMware Fault Tolerance CLI Management

Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)

William Lam, the guy who made the GettoVCB script, has releases another great script to VMware Code Central. With  ftCLI.pl, the vSphere Admin can manage VMware Fault Tolerance through the Service Console or other supported CLI. Description: Managing VMware Fault Tolerant via the command line.…

by j.piscaer at July 01, 2009 06:14 AM

New Networking Features in vSphere

xtravirt (Jolliffe, Davey, Mittell)

Overview

This Xtravirt white paper gives an overview of the new networking features included in vSphere. In addition to the new VMware distributed virtual switch, it will discuss the third party Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch. This document assumes some existing knowledge of virtual networking…

by xtravirt at July 01, 2009 06:09 AM

Performance Enhancements in vSphere 4.0

Hemant Gaidhani's Virtualization World (Hemant Gaidhani [VMware])

Now that vSphere 4.0 is generally available, I have been getting several questions everyday about the performance enhancements in vSphere 4.0. So here's a list that tries to compile all VMware vSphere performance resources. Hopefully I have captured all that's available as of today - there's more…

by hgaidhani at July 01, 2009 05:41 AM

Automating vSphere ESX4 host installations

Ubiquitous Talk (Mike La Spina)

Automating ESX 4 installations is a great way to save time and to provide a method of server recovery in the event of hardware or software failure. It creates consistent high quality repeatable installations that can be quickly modified to handle new and changing hardware. The process can also…

by Mike La Spina at July 01, 2009 04:47 AM

vSphere Host Profiles – first look for me…through a video

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

I’m starting to learn some new stuff about vSphere Host profiles. I like a video learning and especially a Video Learning and Training courses from TrainSingnal.  Their quality is awesome. The new ESX 4 leaning courses from TrainSignal will be available sometimes before VMworld 2009. For getting…

by Vladan SEGET at July 01, 2009 04:46 AM

Creating USB based boot media for ESX 4 installs

Ubiquitous Talk (Mike La Spina)

As a follow on to my Automating vSphere ESX4 Host Installations blog I have detailed a howto create USB based boot media using syslinux 3.82 and the ESX 4 installation source files. The process is actually quite simple as we can create the bootable USB from a Windows system.  You can also do…

by Mike La Spina at July 01, 2009 04:44 AM

Securing COMSTAR and VMware iSCSI connections

Ubiquitous Talk (Mike La Spina)

Connecting VMware iSCSI sessions to COMSTAR or any iSCSI target provider securely is required to maintain a reliable system. Without some level of initiator to target connection gate keeping we will eventually encounter a security event. This can happen from a variety of sources, for example…

by Mike La Spina at July 01, 2009 04:41 AM

Why FCoE? Why not just NAS and iSCSI?

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

Scott Lowe recently wrote a good post on FCoE, and his thoughts here. The comments of his readers are comments I’ve heard from others as well, so I posted a response in the comments, but I think Scott and I...

by Chad Sakac at July 01, 2009 01:05 AM

VMware/EMC Summer Webcast Series

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

We’re doing these webcasts with the product folks on vSphere and EMC topics – a great opportunity to see/learn/ask/give feedback. Every thursday – 11am EST. Are there topics YOU want to see, demos you want to experience, or people you...

by Chad Sakac at July 01, 2009 12:12 AM

Cisco UCS Resources

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Some Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) linkage goodness.

This page will always be a work in progress as I will update it as I come across useful resources. If you have a useful resource drop in a comment with the details. If you want an easy page to remember or bookmark a permanent link is

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 12:30 AM

June 30, 2009

Size Labels for Virtual Environments – A Proposal

The Lone Sysadmin (Bob Plankers)

“How big is your virtual environment?” I love that question. Find a virtual environment and ask ten people who work on it, and they’ll give you ten different answers. “It’s pretty big,” one person will say. The next person will say “oh, we’re small.” The next two people asked will…

by Bob Plankers at June 30, 2009 11:27 PM

EMC Avamar and VMware View

That's My View (Christoph Dommermuth)

There is a new whitepaper online from EMC which describes how to use EMC Avamar to protect/recover VMware View environments. That’s definitively an interesting one. Download: http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h6397-avamar-vmware-view-wp.pdf

by Christoph Dommermuth at June 30, 2009 10:06 PM

Siemens IT Solutions and Services makes virtualization easier

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

VMBlog Calling virtualization one of the most transcendent technologies to hit the market in years, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc., today introduced its full-scale Virtualization Services. Based upon three core tenets — Engage, Enable, and Evolve — the package of services is designed to…

by Martin at June 30, 2009 09:38 PM

Cut Your Exchange Backup Window in Half

Virtual Foundry (Robert Patton)

Going all the way back to the Exchange 5.5 days, I've preferred doing disk-to-disk-to-tape Exchange backups. I'll use NTBackup for the disk-to-disk part, and the regular file backup agent that comes with whatever backup software we happen to be using for the to-tape part. This means eschewing the…

by Robert Patton (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2009 10:28 PM

Three ways to kill a frozen vSphere ESXi host virtual machine

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

At some point, you may need to know how to kill a stuck or frozen VMware vSphere 4.0 ESXi host virtual machine when the traditional power controls do not work. As with VMware ESX, there are several methods, which I covered in a previous post, killing a virtual machine (VM) on a VMware ESX host in…

by Eric Siebert at June 30, 2009 09:03 PM

VMware Cares

vmwarewolf (Rick Blythe [VMware])

As I alluded to yesterday, I am changing roles here at VMware. I am thrilled to have been chosen to fill a brand new role of Social Media Specialist. I’ll be the eyes & ears for VMware in the social networking world, assisting where I can in getting the information you need in your hands. It’s…

by VMwarewolf at June 30, 2009 09:01 PM

ESX4i build 171294 - released

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

From a query on the VMTN forums, I found this one.

It seems there has been a release (very very quiet one… sshhhh..) from the original GA code version 164009.

It now seems there are two versions of ESX4i floating around now.

ESX4i

ESX4i Free

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There are no release…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2009 09:50 PM

Brush up on your drawing skills for UCS and vSphere

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

I’m nearly half way through my UCS training, in my first week at Cisco. Boy, they like their acronyms here, don’t they? So much so, in fact, they often name the same component multiple times (UCSM=SAM=CAM, or how about FEX=IOM?) Anyway, I digress (perhaps I’ll publish and maintain a…

by Steve Chambers at June 30, 2009 08:48 PM

Thin Provisioning: Under Control

Virtualization Review Blogs (Virtualization Review)

Should the storage system or the virtualization platform be in control when thin provisioning? Your thoughts...

June 30, 2009 08:34 PM

Working with Maintenance Mode in PowerShell

Virtual Black Hole / Tripwire (Steve Beaver)

Today’s topic is working with PowerShell in vWire to enter and exit Maintenance Mode.  If you do not have vWire installed yet you can download it here.  Once you have vWire installed you will notice that there is a script action to exit Maintenance Mode.  When writing scripts for entering ...

June 30, 2009 08:03 PM

Sun VirtualBox 3.0 released

VMHero (Ryan)

Sun has just released an update version to their free, open source desktop virtualization client, VirtualBox. They are saying the major feature is that they now provide support for SMP (multiple CPUs) for their virtual guests! In addition to that, they have improved 3D support (not that it was too…

by Todd at June 30, 2009 07:45 PM

Red Hat turning VMworld into KVMworld?

Server Virtualization Blog (SearchServerVirtualization.com)

VMworld 2009 is still two months away, but at least one virtualization competitor is already planning to steal some thunder at the show. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) suite will hit general availability Sept. 1, according to LeMagIT — which, for those of you who don’t parlez…

by Colin Steele at June 30, 2009 07:05 PM

VirtualBox 3.0 Released!

Desktop Virtualization (Gleb Reys)

Sun xVM VirtualBox Right on time, the next major VirtualBox version is released – VirtualBox 3.0.0! Major changes in VirtualBox 3.0 The two major improvements in VirtualBox 3.0 can be summed up like this: multi-processor VMs - guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) graphics…

by Gleb Reys at June 30, 2009 06:26 PM

ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion.
If you looked at the previous topology of my lab you will notice that there was no interface configured there for shared storage. That was a small oversight on my part which I corrected…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at June 30, 2009 07:20 PM

Stuff worth checking out.

vSphere PowerCLI Blog (SDK Team [VMware])

There’s been a lot of PowerCLI-related stuff going on lately that’s worth checking out. vProfiles and more. Monsieur Alan Renouf has been hard at work lately and had turned out some really amazing stuff. The first is what he calls...

by Carter Shanklin at June 30, 2009 05:45 PM

Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described below. I have experimented with Virtual Machine...

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by Gabe at June 30, 2009 04:31 PM

Free Hyper-V training from Microsoft

VMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema)

I use TWeetDeck on my laptop to follow the news concerning virtualization. vSphere, Hyper-V and Xen have their own column. It’s because of these queries I noticed a tweet from @ilijabrajkovic about a free Hyper-V training from Microsoft. Microsoft is giving away a free Hyper-V training. All you…

by MeAgain at June 30, 2009 04:30 PM

Dear VMware: Pick a Common (SUPPORTED) Virtual Appliance OS…Please….

Daily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery)

One of my pet peeves is that each virtual appliance coming out of VMware is that each different virtual appliance released by them is based on a different OS. Some of these do not even have documented methods for updating the OS. We all know that no matter what OS is running on a system, [...]

by Dave Convery at June 30, 2009 03:17 PM

Enable VMotion and iSCSI in scripted install

Jume (Bouke Groenescheij)

Last week I posted my UDA experience. I was quite satisfied with the results, but for some reason I couldn't...

June 30, 2009 02:31 PM

Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

With a few tweaks to your thin provisioning process, you can free up previously allotted but unused VMDK storage space for other applications.

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by Gabrie van Zanten at June 30, 2009 12:33 PM

Why does Cisco UCS memory stop at 384GB RAM?

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

Did you know that the Intel Nehalem Xeon 55xx series CPU uses 40-bits for memory addressing, even though it’s a 64-bit CPU? This means it can address a maximum of half-a-terabyte of memory. Consider the table below and see that 40-bit can address up to 512GB – the (current) configuration of a…

by Steve Chambers at June 30, 2009 10:15 AM

HP furthers their virtual storage options

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

HP HP today announced new virtualization offerings that enable customers to reduce costs and drive greater efficiencies across their entire technology infrastructures. The offerings include enhancements to the HP StorageWorks and HP client virtualization portfolios that deliver a seamless transition…

by Martin at June 30, 2009 09:54 AM

Long Distance vMotion… heading to the vCloud

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  VMware have an interesting proof of concept document posted online here, this is great progress for the platform and it can only be helped out by the close partnership with Cisco that has resulted in the NX1000V switch. I’m no networking expert but to my understanding there are issues with…

by vinf at June 30, 2009 07:54 AM

VMworld Europe 2009 Highlights

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Watch highlights from the VMworld Conference in Cannes, France (February 2009).

by Eric Sloof at June 30, 2009 07:08 AM

Demo of OVF Template Deployment in vSphere 4

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In this video, you'll see how a multi-tiered software solution (SugarCRM) can be deployed as an OVF package, how it is customized during deployment, and how it shows up in the vCenter inventory as a vApp icon. The installation experience is customized by the meta-data contained in the OVF…

by Eric Sloof at June 30, 2009 07:00 AM

Video of how-to create a NFS share on 2003 server R2

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

I found this step by step video on Youtube. It demonstrates with step-by-step procedure the creation of NFS share in 2003 R2 server. Sometimes you migh find a Windows Server in your entreprise which has a lots of  storage place left and it’s not used. So You could use this existing Windows 2003…

by Vladan SEGET at June 30, 2009 04:40 AM

Blades Won’t Die, But They Will Change

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

The increasing influence of virtualization, 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and unified fabric has some analysts and experts proclaiming the death of the blade server. Here's why I disagree with that viewpoint. Blades won't die, but they will change.

This article was originally…

by slowe at June 30, 2009 03:54 AM

Index of Knowledge Base Articles

vmwarewolf (Rick Blythe [VMware])

As I wrap up my stint on the Knowledge Base Team at VMware (I’ll tell you what I’m up to next in another post) I came across a handy index, or table of contents for the whole knowledgebase, available on one page! Click here to see the KB Index. Sure makes it easy to search! This post brought…

by VMwarewolf at June 30, 2009 01:32 AM

June 29, 2009

Biking for Geeks

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  A slight diversion from the usual topics, over the last year I have been getting back into cycling after a long break. Mainly to regain my overall fitness but also as a social thing with our daughter who loves cycling. Whilst I enjoy cycling, like any geek I need an extra hook to keep me…

by vinf at June 29, 2009 11:07 PM

New articles published for week ending 6/28/2009

VMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema)

In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com VMware ESXUnable to install vSphere – Disk greyed out (1011695)Date Published: 6/25/2009 CVE-2009-1252 and ESX Server 3.5 (1012207)Date Published: 6/25/2009 Reducing FT logging traffic for disk…

by Sid at June 29, 2009 10:40 PM

VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Available

latoga labs (Greg A Lato [VMware])

VMware Studio 2.0 Beta was made publicly available over the weekend.  Studio 2.0 helps configure, build, deploy and customize vApps And Virtual Appliances within a vSphere environment.  Follow the link for full details. (For some reason, it’s the name has been pre-pended with a lower-case…

by latoga at June 29, 2009 09:23 PM

Upgrading from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0

ESXi Chronicles (VMware ESXi Team [VMware])

There are two main ways to upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0. Both methods perform an in-place upgrade of ESXi, which allows the following: preserve VMFS and all contents on local disk, if upgrading ESXi Installable upgrade ESXi embedded, whether on internal or external USB key or internal flash…

by Charu Chaubal at June 29, 2009 09:15 PM

Trust doesn’t come easy

Virtualization Security (Tripwire)

I’ve been speaking with a number of virtualization pros lately and a couple of recurring threads have popped out of the discussion: Many virtualization admins are concerned about reputation (their own and the reputation of virtualization as a platform) within their companies; These same admins…

by Dwayne Melancon at June 29, 2009 07:57 PM

VCP410 VCP4 Certification Exam

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

The VCP4 certification exam just became available at Pearson VUE for €160,00. Just sign in, select an appointment and schedule your exam. But the exam is not available for delivery yet, you have to wait until August 8th for this exam. If you participated in the vSphere beta program, the…

by Eric Sloof at June 29, 2009 06:37 PM

Yellow Bricks wallpaper!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

I was looking for a new wallpaper for my laptop as the old ones started to bore me. Coincidentally I ran into Sander Ras this week. Sander designed the Yellow Bricks logo almost two years ago, and I asked him if he could create a wallpaper for me based on this logo. This is what [...]


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by Duncan Epping at June 29, 2009 06:35 PM

Xen 3.4.1 Hits Release Candidate Stage

virtualization.com

"Fifth release candidate is tagged as 3.4.1-rc5 in the usual place. Please test!"

by Robin Wauters at June 29, 2009 06:23 PM

VMotion between Data Centers—a VMware and Cisco Proof of Concept

VMware Networking Blog (VMware Networking Team [VMware])

VMotion, the VMware feature that enables live VM migration between ESX hosts is one of the major attractions of vSphere and before that, VMware Infrastructure (or VI for short). It’s simply quite amazing to watch a VM continue operation and...

by Guy Brunsdon at June 29, 2009 05:47 PM

Cloud Computing = Accounting Exercise?

virtualization stuff (Mark Mac Auley)

Dude. Seriously.

With all of the talk about Cloud Computing, and where it is headed and what it is evolving into, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.

When companies wanted to get out of paying the capital expense of their computing hardware, software, and storage arrays, etc. they outsourced it…

by Mark Mac Auley (identitystuff@gmail.com) at June 29, 2009 06:45 PM

VM Management For Fun And Profit

InformationWeek Virtualization Blog (InformationWeek)

I chatted up a group of IT pros running full tilt towards virtualization. They all seemed to have left their management hats at home... How 'bout you? We'd love to get your view on VM management.



by By Joe Hernick at June 29, 2009 04:01 PM

Andreessen, Horowitz Back Cloud Computing Startup WebappVM

virtualization.com

A new cloud computing startup funded and advised by legendary entrepreneurs turned investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz plans to help enterprise companies deploy and manage applications in the cloud.

by Robin Wauters at June 29, 2009 03:20 PM

Snapshot Issue with VMware Data Recovery

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

A potentially serious issue has arisen with VMware's new backup product, VMware Data Recovery. Read the full article for more details.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

by slowe at June 29, 2009 02:30 PM

VMware takes another stab at virtual appliance authoring

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

VMware Studio 2.0 free virtual appliance authoring software can create multi-tier virtual appliances, but some IT pros have already settled on Sun xVM VirtualBox.

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by Alex Barrett, News Director at June 29, 2009 02:13 PM

VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>I just received a copy of Edward’s new book “VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment”. This book reflects the same hands-on approach that made Haletky’s VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise so popular with working professionals. Haletky…

by Eric Sloof at June 29, 2009 11:18 AM

Standalone vSphere hosts and the local VMFS

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

On twitter @lamw just asked a question which triggered me to blog it cause I expect this is something more people will run into sooner or later. Anyone know if you can change the default VMFS block size in ESX4 during interactive installation? This is something that I also ran into personally a…

by Duncan Epping at June 29, 2009 11:09 AM

XenDesktop VDI Extreme

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Quick shot showcasing a client of ours running a 6 monitor VDI session.   Fat Client running a remote XenDesktop with HDX on a VMware 3.5 Virtual Infrastructure. High Geek Factor! Photography credit : Aaron Silber on his BlackBerry Bold. :)

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at June 29, 2009 12:04 PM

New Technical White Papers from the week

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

Some new technical whitepapers this past week.  Here’s a listing and their breakdown: Managing Custom ESXi Extensions - A short paper on tips on how to add or remove or troubleshoot customer ESXi Extensions.  These can be things like VMKernel module, driver, or Common Interface Module (CIM)…

by The VMguy at June 29, 2009 11:00 AM

VMware Data Recovery and the hidden un-removable snapshots

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Kyle Ross ran into an issue with VMware Data Recovery this week that needs to be mentioned to the wider VMware community. Below is a write-up of the issue he encountered and the workaround he went through with VMware support.

I was made aware of a serious (in my opinion) bug with VDR during a call…

by Eric Sloof at June 29, 2009 10:28 AM

Phoenix Technologies Announces $13.05 Million Registered Direct Common Stock Offering

virtualization.com

Phoenix Technologies has entered into definitive purchase agreements with selected new and existing institutional investors to sell 5,800,000 shares of its common stock.

by Robin Wauters at June 29, 2009 10:11 AM

VMware Data Recovery adding a back-up destination

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>It’s prepping time this week. I’m working my way through the new vSphere 4 ICM instructor guide. Module 11 is fun, I was very curious about the VMware Data Recovery lab. I completed this lab once before at the VMworld 2008 in Cannes together with my blog friend Duncan Epping. I…

by Eric Sloof at June 29, 2009 10:00 AM

Following the UDA 2.0 Beta, found workarounds

Jume (Bouke Groenescheij)

I've not been using the UDA for a long time since I didn't needed it. But I wanted to have...

June 29, 2009 09:30 AM

Storage Sizing with VMFS Volumes

Virtualization Review Blogs (Virtualization Review)

There is no clear answer, but there are strategies.

June 29, 2009 07:00 AM

Catbird V-Security: V-Agent Installation Guide

xtravirt (Jolliffe, Davey, Mittell)

Overview

The wide-ranging benefits of virtualization are hard to ignore, but as enterprises develop their confidence in the technology and extend its deployment to mission critical functions, focus needs to be drawn to one of its shortcomings. While traditional processes and methodologies typically…

by xtravirt at June 29, 2009 06:10 AM

Free tools from PHD virtual

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

In one of my last articles I wrote about PHD Virtual’s esXpress there were some great free tools I found about on the PHD Virtual’s website. Sho why not tho share this with you guys.. Virtual SAN 1.0.0 – It’s a virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server. It uses the local disks which are…

by Vladan SEGET at June 29, 2009 04:55 AM

Scaling Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

So Rodos, how much can I scale my Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)? Great question. For those with a short attention span scroll to the table at the end, otherwise keep reading.

UCS is built for scale, when you look at the numbers its impressive. Yet the devil is in the detail when it comes to…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at June 29, 2009 03:04 AM

Weekly Twitter Updates

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

RT @ervik: Citrix Workflow Studio wfs files released for download: I’ve made plenty of WorkFlows .. http://bit.ly/ZPFBL # RT @scott_lowe: @ rbrambley @ landonf StorageLink provides today what the # vSphere vStorage APIs promise to provide tomorrow. # Out in the RV this week. Internet…

by ssnowden at June 29, 2009 01:10 AM

New articles published for week ending 6/28/2009

VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest (VMware Knowledge Base Team [VMware])

VMware ESX Unable to install vSphere - Disk greyed out (1011695) Date Published: 6/25/2009 CVE-2009-1252 and ESX Server 3.5 (1012207) Date Published: 6/25/2009 Reducing FT logging traffic for disk read intensive workloads (1011965) Date Published: 6/22/2009 Changing the load balancing...

by Amandeep Gill at June 29, 2009 01:08 AM

Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -

BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden)

The whitepaper, Application Virtualization Solution Overview and Feature Compare matrix, will provide new and updated information about the various Application- and Desktop Delivery solutions, Application Virtualization in general and the main Application Virtualization vendors. It also includes a…

by Ruben Spruijt at June 29, 2009 01:01 AM

June 28, 2009

vSphere Resource Management: a factory artifact

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

Have you read vSphere Resource Management Guide?  It’s a story about how machines in a production line operate and how their settings can be altered to make them work better: well, that’s how I interpret it But what is this production line: what is it for?  And what are these machines: and…

by Steve Chambers at June 28, 2009 10:21 PM

VCP 4 exam availability starts August 8th, 2009

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

The VCP on vSphere4 (VCP4) certification exam will be publically available on August 8th, 2009. It is already possible to schedule an appointment at Pearson vue. In about a week, on July 6th, 2009, the beta exam for VCP on vSphere4 starts and is only eligible for people who participated in the…

by Gerben at June 28, 2009 09:07 PM

Top 5 Planet V12n blog posts week 26

VMTN Blog (Technical Community [VMware])

It was a good week again. Some awesome blog posts of which the following five were my favorites. It seems like it is getting harder to create a top 5 every week. I picked technical and non-technical articles this week....

by Duncan Epping at June 28, 2009 07:10 PM

Using the VMware paravirtual SCSI controller to boot a Debian VM

Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)

I’ve been optimizing my hosted environment for the last couple of days now. Besides upgrading the hard- and software of the physical server (Virtual Lifestyle running on ESX 4!), I’ve been optimizing the Guest OS of the VM running this website. After doing the usual stuff (like running…

by j.piscaer at June 28, 2009 06:34 PM

Will Cloud Computing See an ASP-like Burst?

Economics of Virtualization (Steve Kaplan)

The top 5 ASP players went from a market cap of $23.6 B in 2000 to $111 M within 5 years. Does the hype around cloud computing fortell a similar burst?

by Steve Kaplan at June 28, 2009 05:14 PM

Virtualization on Blade

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

We see the growth in the market to be more aggressive for consolidation in the data center for both physical and virtual server from time to time. There are plenty of solutions in place allow blade to support virtualization today such as virtual connect from HP, pass through module, infiniband…

by craig at June 28, 2009 04:50 PM

Tips to recover Snapshot problem on VM

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

You may had experienced the snapshot problem when the snapshot delta virtual disk had become huge which is more than 20GB and is not able to be truncated by removing all the snapshot. Usually the problem occur when the snapshot is no longer available from snapshot manager, but you can see the delta…

by craig at June 28, 2009 04:32 PM

The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization - Part 4

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

Cost Models and Chargeback's

Continuing from the last post covering data metrics, a solid cost model is needed to sell the program and saves from virtualization. The company needs to see a significant save to offset the investment and disruption from virtualization.

Most corporations have a cost…

by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Key) at June 28, 2009 03:36 PM

VMware vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0 on Microsoft Windows 7!

Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)

A part of the VMware vSphere Client is the Host Update Utility. After getting the client itself to run on Windows 7 (64bit), I now figured out how to run the Host Update Utility on this OS as well. Make sure you’ve followed the steps in VMware vSphere Client on Microsoft Windows 7!. The only extra…

by j.piscaer at June 28, 2009 03:29 PM

Configuration Maximums for vSphere

Virtualised Reality (virtualisedreality)

A must have for anyone studying towards a VCP or VSTP in vSphere http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf

by Barry at June 28, 2009 01:55 PM

Toyota Production System for IT

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

Consider the following logic Product (Car) Product (Car) . components() = { Chassis , Seats(), Wheels(), Steering Wheel, Engine, Body } Product (Car) . Wheels (Front Left) = { Tyre, Alloy, Nuts } Product (Car) . Wheels (Front Left) . build = { fit Tyre to Alloy, put Alloy on Axle, apply Nuts }…

by Steve Chambers at June 28, 2009 01:23 PM

VMware Studio 2.0 available now!

VMTN Blog (Technical Community [VMware])

Although VMware Studio 2.0 Beta was originally scheduled to be released on Monday the VMware Studio team worked very hard and managed to release it yesterday. We are pleased to announce that the beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 has...

by Duncan Epping at June 28, 2009 07:50 AM

RVTools – 2.5.5 version is out.

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

RVTools So what’s new? I blogged already several times about this small little freeware tool which is VERY HANDY and that helps you gather a lot of informations from your virtual infrastructure’s environement.So what Rob de Veij is saying about his upgrade? Changed health check properties are…

by Vladan SEGET at June 28, 2009 04:04 AM

June 27, 2009

Enterprise IT Planning for Clouds

latoga labs (Greg A Lato [VMware])

Over the past few weeks I have been involved in long term planning discussion with the senior IT management from multiple clients.  While I can’t go into details  of these meetings, a few common general trends emerged in these long term virtualization strategies. First, all of them were roughly…

by latoga at June 27, 2009 10:04 PM

PowerCLI To Perfmon using the PowerWF Agent

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In this demo devfarm will deploy a PowerCLI script that's transcribed to a workflow using PowerWF earlier to an Agent to run automatically every 3 seconds. As a result of that script running as a workflow in the agent you'll see ESX Memory Usage in the local computer's Performance Monitor.

by Eric Sloof at June 27, 2009 07:21 PM

Powershell Scripting Games - Day 8

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Here is my solution for Event 8. Here we had to go through the hard drive and report which folder was using up all the space on the drive.

   1: #First we set the path
   2: $path = Read-Host "Which folder would you like to scan?"
   3: 
   4: #assign what we want to get to a variable
   5:

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at June 27, 2009 07:49 PM

RVTools 2.5.5!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Just released, a brand new version of RVTools: Latest Version: 2.5.5 | June 27, 2009 Download | Documentation Release notes: Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009) Changed health check properties are not set at start of the program. The program will use the default values until you start and transmit the…

by Duncan Epping at June 27, 2009 02:40 PM

If it’s not Blog Syndication or Aggregation then it’s Stealing and Aggravating

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

[updated 06.29.09] - The owner of the site has professionally responded in the commnents following this post. I appreciate the reply and this exercise has made me to decide to investigate providing multiple RSS feeds for VM /ETC. To the owner(s) of networkvirtualization.com: Change the current…

by Rich at June 27, 2009 01:54 PM

PowerCLI: Upgrading vHardware to vSphere Part 1: Templates

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

One of the blogs I’ve always enjoyed reading is ICT-Freak.nl. ICT-Freak is maintained by Arne Fokkema. Unfortunately Arne used to mix Dutch and English posts which means his blog is not aggregated on Planet V12n. This is why I wanted to point you out to the following awesome article: With the…

by Duncan Epping at June 27, 2009 01:03 PM

Cisco UCS

View Yonder (Steve Chambers [VMware])

I start my new job on Monday @ Cisco, and I managed to get on an internal UCS course in my first week, which is a real result! I plan to Tweet and Blog about the course next week and the juicy stuff I find, plus pictures of course. I’ve started a Cisco UCS page to dump [...]

by Steve Chambers at June 27, 2009 04:44 AM

How to activate root SSH access in ESX 4.0

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

In ESX 4.0 SSH is blocked by default for the root user so you need to activate the root login on the console of the ESX server. Otherwise you will not be able to use PuTTy or or VEEAM FastSCP.  Way ago I wrote an article about how-to activate SSH for the rooin ESX 3 [...]

by Vladan SEGET at June 27, 2009 04:10 AM

Join the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program

VMware Communities Blog (VMware Communities Team [VMware])

We are pleased to announce that the beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 has been released and is available for download. We look forward to receiving your feedback - issues, feature requests, suggestions for improvement - through the Discussions forum in the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Program Community.

by Badsah at June 27, 2009 02:26 AM

VMworld 2009 - Hello Freedom

VMworld Team Blog (VMworld Team [VMware])

VMworld 2009
August 31 - September 3
The Moscone Center, San Francisco

Discover how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing?providing even more efficiency and flexibility at a time when both are critical to the future of IT. VMworld 2009, brought to you by VMware®,is…

June 27, 2009 01:01 AM

VMworld 2009 Content Catalog

VMworld Team Blog (VMworld Team [VMware])

The Content Catalog has been released for public viewing, covering VMworld 2009 session and lab titles, abstracts and speaker bios.

Whether you are attending VMworld 2009 or are yet to register, please browse the Content Catalog for a full lineup of sessions and labs. Hear from experts and…

June 27, 2009 01:00 AM

VMworld 2009 Exhibitors

VMworld Team Blog (VMworld Team [VMware])

VMworld community –

Let us set the record straight on any vendor exhibit issue.

VMware is totally committed to continuing to make VMworld the leading virtualization conference in the world, highlighting the rich, diverse ecosystem that is the virtualization marketplace. Just to be clear, the…

June 27, 2009 12:58 AM

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