sneak peek of the upcoming vSphere Clustering book (Yellow Bricks)
For those who are not following Frank’s blog, he just posted a sneak peek of the upcoming vSphere Clustering book. It looks really really slick in full color. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Go to...
View ArticleSimple Versus Complicated - Verified (The Virtual Storage Guy)
One day after sharing with you my customer engagement where we discussed provisioning 'Storage for Desktops - Simple VersusComplicated' I was informed of a post from another storage vendor that...
View ArticleWelcome new VMTN community moderators (VMTN Blog)
On the 1st of June, we were thrilled to welcome some new members to the VMTN community moderator team, and also some familiar faces. Every six months, we hold elections to make sure we get some fresh...
View ArticleEMC, VMware in ‘furious high gear’ over VAAI glitch (Server Virtualization Blog)
EMC and VMware are as close as two vendors can get, but that doesn’t make them immune to integration problems. An issue with some versions of EMC’s Engenuity Symmetrix VMax disk array microcode and...
View ArticleMonitoring solution has built-in support for vCO based Remediation! (vCO Team)
uptime software realized early on that many orchestration solutions could involve very expensive software suites and services. They chose to extend their product by plugging it into VMware’s vCenter...
View ArticleVDS Security (VMware Networking Blog)
By Shudong Zhou, Sr. Staff Engineer, ESX Networking From time to time, I got queries about VDS architecture, particularly about how vswitches are implemented in the kernel. Do different vswitches share...
View ArticleNew community for vFabric SQLFire (VMTN Blog)
This week, we have launched a new community for VMware vFabric SQLFire on VMTN. vFabric SQLFire is a memory-oriented, shared-nothing distributed data management system designed for applications that...
View ArticledvSwitch scripting – Part 9 – Traffic Shaping (LucD notes)
Another interesting feature of a dvSwitch is the ability to use bidirectional traffic shaping. Besides the outbound traffic shaping that is available on regular virtual switches, with the dvSwitches we...
View ArticlenComputing L300 - quick thoughts (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VDI is expensive. nComputing’s L300 might make it a bit less so, although there are tradeoffs. I’m working on a series of full-length articles discussing my experiences with and thoughts about...
View ArticleEnabling VMXNET 3 for PXEBOOT and KICKSTART of RHEL Virtual Machines (VMwire)
Purpose This guide shows you how to create a new initrd.img with integration for the VMXNET3 driver to allow guest RHEL virtual machines equipped with the VMXNET 3 driver to Kickstart build RHEL using...
View ArticleScripted Removal Of Non-present Hardware After A P2V (VMware Virtualization...
After converting a physical machine to a virtual machine, it is considered a best practice to remove unneeded applications, software, services, and device drivers which were tied to the physical...
View ArticleVMware Tools RPM Installation with PXEBOOT and Kickstart (VMwire)
Purpose This article explains how to use the Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) to install VMware Tools during the PXEBOOT and Kickstart of a Linux guest OS running on vSphere 4.1 and above....
View ArticleThoughts of the CCNA Exam–How to get Prepped (Virtual Insanity)
“This aint’ your Daddy’s Oldsmobile” The CCNA Exam is much more difficult than the VMware VCP Certification. There are a number of reasons why this is the case. Mainly the format of the exam goes...
View ArticleIBM x3850 NICs Lose Network Connectivity With ESXi 4.0 Update 1 (VMware...
This is a heads up on an issue I ran into some time ago upgrading to VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 1 on an IBM System x3850. Granted, it’s an aging hardware platform and fast becoming a dated issue,...
View Articlevmware-configcheck (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
Detect corruption/integrity problems with your .vmx files with the following Service Console command (ESX only): /usr/bin/vmware-configcheck | grep -v PASS The command walks through the inventory and...
View ArticleNew Openfiler for the VMwire lab (VMwire)
Hardware Hardware Make/Model Details Server Dell PowerEdge SC440 Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 2.0GHz, 8Gb RAM Networking Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X Dual Port Controller...
View ArticleWeekly Twitter Updates From TechFieldDay (Virtualization Information)
I Work Where I Am & When I Want | C.C. Chapman: http://disq.us/266zbv (@cc_chapman) # Happy pre-IPv6 Test Flight Day Eve http://bit.ly/kDlN1v #IPV6# TechFieldDay kickoff meeting...
View ArticleView Composer Fault: Invalid input parameter ReplicationDatastoreMoId...
When rolling out View Composer Linked Clones you may see the following error View Composer Fault: Invalid input parameter ReplicationDatastoreMoId for desktop provisioning. Reason: ValidationFailure...
View ArticleDelayed write failure when trying to run a VMware ThinApp (Virtualised Reality)
When a user with a redirected profile tries to run a VMware ThinApp they may get a “Delayed write failure” message similar to that below. (The image above is taken from the VMware Communites Post...
View ArticleVideo of my VMware vSphere HomeLAB (ESX Virtualization)
My VMware vSphere Homelab Video. I’ve finished the setup of my homelab so I thought that It’s a good idea to shoot a video of it. It’s modest lab, with 2 whiteboxes running Intel quad core i7 920 and...
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