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…
Planet V12nThe Planet's Conversation on Virtualization July 03, 2009Chad Sakac has beaten meNTPRO.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… 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…
VMware Technology Exchange Developer DayNTPRO.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…
A Collection of VIOPSRTFM 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…
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.
Change Microcode in Xenserver/Everrunvirtualfuture.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…
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 [...]
VMware vSphere4 VCP4 Beta ExamRTFM 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, [...]
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 -…
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…
Running ESX4 on VMware Workstation 6/ESX4RTFM 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…
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…
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,…
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… 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…
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…
Talking about blades in my business – Join the debate as an end user, as a businessBlade 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:…
vSphere and vmfs-undeleteYellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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-…
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…
Top 20 blogs revealed by Eric SiebertESX 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…
Session catalog VMworld 2009ESX 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…
Cisco Nexus 5000 POCMalaysia 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…
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 [...]
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...
And the winners of the VMware top blog are…Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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 [...]
…
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 [...]
VMware Studio 2 Beta & vApps - Community Roundtable podcast #54VMTN Blog
(Technical Community
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...
July 02, 2009Using HP RGS with VMware View 3.1VM 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).…
Catalyst 2009 is Right Around the CornerChrisWolf.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,…
Port Group Network Security Policy ActionVirtual 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 ...…
VMworld Europe 2010PlanetVM (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 [...]
Relfex is looking for beta testersNTPRO.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… VMware Developer Center - Welcomes Orchestrator API DevelopersDeveloper Center Blog
(SDK Team
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 … Rumor !!! VMworld US 2010 and VMworld Europe 2010 in same monthGabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten) vSheild Zones My First Look2 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-UpvTeardown
(Horschman, Gray, Hong, Montakhab
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…
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…
VMware Developer Day - Registration is open !Developer Center Blog
(SDK Team New Timekeeping KB articleVMware Knowledge Base Blog
(VMware Knowledge Base Team
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...
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 [...]
Live, from Cisco Live 2009Virtual 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...
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 [...]
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…
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 [...]
RES softwareVMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema) 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 2009VMware Knowledge Base Blog
(VMware Knowledge Base Team
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...
Pingbacks Not Suited For Dirty Minds: XenItalia.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.
Diskeeper Offers Complimentary License for XP Mode on Windows 7
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.
Invitation to the VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 Beta ExamVMware 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…
VirtenSys Delivers Solution to Virtualize Servers’ Direct-Attached Storage and Disk Drives
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.
National Blog Posting MonthvTeardown
(Horschman, Gray, Hong, Montakhab
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!…
The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization - Part 5virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) The Cultural Impacts
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 PowerWFNTPRO.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… Virtualization Migration Solutions Overview and Feature Compare MatrixNTPRO.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… The Virtual GlueVirtually 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 provisionningESX 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.…
Is standard RDP 7 ready for everyday desktop replacement? I’m on a mission to find out!BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden) Update Manager does not download host updatesVMware 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…
Setting up a Splunk Server to Monitor a VMware EnvironmentDaily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery) July 01, 2009Veeam announces Veeam Business ViewVirtual 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,…
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…
Indirection, Abstraction, Pools and Policies – the UCS simple approachView Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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…
DMZ Virtualization Using VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual SwitchVMware Security Blog
(Security Team
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...
ftCLI.pl – VMware Fault Tolerance ManagementYellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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:…
Announcing the VMware Coffee Talk Live Webinars - First Wed. of the Month 9:00 am - 10:00 am PSTDeveloper Center Blog
(SDK Team vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter AppSpeed and vCenter ChargebackNTPRO.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.
How-To: Disable Debug Mode in Workstation 7.0 BetaDaily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery) 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 PrimalFormsProfessional 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,…
ESXi 3.5.0 Update 4 Host Disconnectsvmprofessional (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 BrokersVMwareInfo.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...
[[More information after the jump - Visit… by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at July 01, 2009 05:19 PM VMware Studio 2 Beta AvailablePunching Clouds
(Rawlinson Rivera
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…
Safely implementing VMsafe-aware virtual appliances in your data centerVMware 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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The votes are in: Favorite vSphere enhancementsVirtualization 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…
Virtualizing Microsoft SQL? Consider per-processor licensingVirtualization 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…
Cisco the arms dealerMusings 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… Top VMware BloggersMusings 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.
Republished: Dispelling Some VMware over NFS Mythsblog.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… 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… 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…
Not possible to resize /var/log on vSphere 4 HostMalaysia 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…
Command-line OVF DeploymentsvApp Developer Blog
(VMware vApp & Studio Teams
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…
Xtravirt Whitepaper about virtualizing Active DirectoryGerben'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…
Sun Microsystems Unleashes VirtualBox 3.0, Adds Many Server Virtualization Features
Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun VirtualBox, its cross-platform virtualization software.
Red Hat Launches Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program
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.
ScaleMP Completes vSMP Foundation Certification For HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Server Blades
ScaleMP completed certification of vSMP Foundation for HP ProLiant BL280c G6 server blades offering the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series.
Release: Virtual Computer NxTop 1.1 (Introducing System Workbench)
Virtual Computer today announced the availability of NxTop 1.1.
ASG Debuts New Virtualization Management Solution, Aims To Eliminate Virtual Sprawl
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.
Lenovo’s Latest Servers Well Suited For Virtualization
Lenovo today announced its latest line of servers, the ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers as well as the RD210 and RD220 rack servers.
Know what you’re talking about : get a free hyper-v trainingvirtualfuture.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…
The first “real” layering product? MokaFive’s new v2.0 looks pretty good!BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden) William Lam releases ftCLI.pl – VMware Fault Tolerance CLI ManagementVirtual 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.…
New Networking Features in vSpherextravirt (Jolliffe, Davey, Mittell) OverviewThis 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… Performance Enhancements in vSphere 4.0Hemant Gaidhani's Virtualization World
(Hemant Gaidhani
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…
Automating vSphere ESX4 host installationsUbiquitous 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…
vSphere Host Profiles – first look for me…through a videoESX 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…
Creating USB based boot media for ESX 4 installsUbiquitous 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…
Securing COMSTAR and VMware iSCSI connectionsUbiquitous 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…
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...
VMware/EMC Summer Webcast SeriesVirtual 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...
Cisco UCS ResourcesMusings 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 … June 30, 2009Size Labels for Virtual Environments – A ProposalThe 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…
EMC Avamar and VMware ViewThat'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
Siemens IT Solutions and Services makes virtualization easierBlade 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…
Cut Your Exchange Backup Window in HalfVirtual 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 machineVirtualization 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…
VMware Caresvmwarewolf
(Rick Blythe
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…
ESX4i build 171294 - releasedTechnodrone (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.
Brush up on your drawing skills for UCS and vSphereView Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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…
Thin Provisioning: Under ControlVirtualization Review Blogs (Virtualization Review)
Should the storage system or the virtualization platform be in control when thin provisioning? Your thoughts...
Working with Maintenance Mode in PowerShellVirtual 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 ...…
Sun VirtualBox 3.0 releasedVMHero (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…
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…
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…
ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing) We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion. Stuff worth checking out.vSphere PowerCLI Blog
(SDK Team
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...
Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioningGabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten) Free Hyper-V training from MicrosoftVMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema) Dear VMware: Pick a Common (SUPPORTED) Virtual Appliance OS…Please….Daily Hypervisor (Sid Smith & Dave Convery) Enable VMotion and iSCSI in scripted installJume (Bouke Groenescheij)
Last week I posted my UDA experience. I was quite satisfied with the results, but for some reason I couldn't...
Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioningVMware 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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Why does Cisco UCS memory stop at 384GB RAM?View Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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…
HP furthers their virtual storage optionsBlade 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…
Long Distance vMotion… heading to the vCloudvinf.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…
VMworld Europe 2009 HighlightsNTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof) Watch highlights from the VMworld Conference in Cannes, France (February 2009). Demo of OVF Template Deployment in vSphere 4NTPRO.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… Video of how-to create a NFS share on 2003 server R2ESX 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…
Blades Won’t Die, But They Will Changeblog.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… Index of Knowledge Base Articlesvmwarewolf
(Rick Blythe
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…
June 29, 2009Biking for Geeksvinf.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…
New articles published for week ending 6/28/2009VMGuru.nl (Anne Jan Elsinga, Erik Scholten, Edwin Weijdema) VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Availablelatoga labs
(Greg A Lato
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…
Upgrading from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0ESXi Chronicles
(VMware ESXi Team
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…
Trust doesn’t come easyVirtualization 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…
VCP410 VCP4 Certification ExamNTPRO.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…
Yellow Bricks wallpaper!Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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 [...]
This post…
Xen 3.4.1 Hits Release Candidate Stage
"Fifth release candidate is tagged as 3.4.1-rc5 in the usual place. Please test!"
VMotion between Data Centers—a VMware and Cisco Proof of ConceptVMware Networking Blog
(VMware Networking Team
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...
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 ProfitInformationWeek Virtualization Blog (InformationWeek) Andreessen, Horowitz Back Cloud Computing Startup WebappVM
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.
Snapshot Issue with VMware Data Recoveryblog.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. VMware takes another stab at virtual appliance authoringVMware 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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VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual EnvironmentNTPRO.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… Standalone vSphere hosts and the local VMFSYellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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…
XenDesktop VDI ExtremeVMwareInfo.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. :)
[[More information after the jump - Visit… by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at June 29, 2009 12:04 PM New Technical White Papers from the weekThe VMguy
(Dave Lawrence
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)…
VMware Data Recovery and the hidden un-removable snapshotsNTPRO.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… Phoenix Technologies Announces $13.05 Million Registered Direct Common Stock Offering
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.
VMware Data Recovery adding a back-up destinationNTPRO.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… Following the UDA 2.0 Beta, found workaroundsJume (Bouke Groenescheij)
I've not been using the UDA for a long time since I didn't needed it. But I wanted to have...
Storage Sizing with VMFS VolumesVirtualization Review Blogs (Virtualization Review)
There is no clear answer, but there are strategies.
Catbird V-Security: V-Agent Installation Guidextravirt (Jolliffe, Davey, Mittell) OverviewThe 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… Free tools from PHD virtualESX 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…
Scaling Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood) Weekly Twitter UpdatesVirtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)
RT @ervik: Citrix Workflow Studio wfs files released for download: I’ve made plenty of WorkFlows ..
http://bit.ly/ZPFBL
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RT @scott_lowe: @
rbrambley @
landonf StorageLink provides today what the #
vSphere vStorage APIs promise to provide tomorrow.
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Out in the RV this week. Internet…
New articles published for week ending 6/28/2009VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest
(VMware Knowledge Base Team
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...
Application Virtualization Solutions Overview and Feature Compare matrix - UPDATED -BrianMadden.com Blogs (Brian Madden) June 28, 2009vSphere Resource Management: a factory artifactView Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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…
VCP 4 exam availability starts August 8th, 2009Gerben'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…
Top 5 Planet V12n blog posts week 26VMTN Blog
(Technical Community
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....
Using the VMware paravirtual SCSI controller to boot a Debian VMVirtual 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…
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?
Virtualization on BladeMalaysia 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…
Tips to recover Snapshot problem on VMMalaysia 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…
The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization - Part 4virtualization.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…
Configuration Maximums for vSphereVirtualised 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
Toyota Production System for ITView Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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 }…
VMware Studio 2.0 available now!VMTN Blog
(Technical Community
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...
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…
June 27, 2009Enterprise IT Planning for Cloudslatoga labs
(Greg A Lato
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…
Powershell Scripting Games - Day 8Technodrone (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:…RVTools 2.5.5!Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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…
If it’s not Blog Syndication or Aggregation then it’s Stealing and AggravatingVM /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…
PowerCLI: Upgrading vHardware to vSphere Part 1: TemplatesYellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
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…
Cisco UCSView Yonder
(Steve Chambers
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 [...]
How to activate root SSH access in ESX 4.0ESX 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 [...]
Join the VMware Studio 2.0 Beta ProgramVMware Communities Blog
(VMware Communities Team
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.
VMworld 2009 - Hello FreedomVMworld Team Blog
(VMworld Team
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… VMworld 2009 Content CatalogVMworld Team Blog
(VMworld Team
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… VMworld 2009 ExhibitorsVMworld Team Blog
(VMworld Team
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… |
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