VMware Fault Tolerance, Determinism, and SMP (The Lone Sysadmin)
We’re all at least roughly familiar with Fault Tolerance, a feature VMware added to vSphere 4 to establish a mirrored VM on a secondary host. It’s kind of like RAID 1 for VMs. To do this, Fault...
View ArticleStorage Basics – Part VIII – The Difference in Consumer vs. Enterprise Class...
As both an IT Manager and storage & virtualization consultant, I have shepherded SMB’s through SAN purchases in support of VMware environments. This may not hold true for the bigger IT shops, but...
View ArticleTechnology Husbandry: DR and Backup have a baby (SeanClark.us)
What is it about my fascination with technology husbandry? Must be my rural Iowa upbringing and watching the farmers and local seed companies breeding for specific favorable traits they wanted in the...
View ArticleFree Download - VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere (NTPRO.NL)
<img>Check the compliance of your IT infrastructure against specific standards and best practices that are applicable for the environment. The Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable,...
View ArticleInstalling and running VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere (vNinja.net)
The first version of the new VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere tool is now available for download. VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere lets you scan your ESX and ESXi hosts for compliance with...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Error 1406. Could not write value InstallPath to key…. (ICT-Freak.nl)
Today I wanted to install PowerCLI on a new installed Windows 2008 R2 server. But I ended up with the following warning: To fix this, you have to delete the following Registry key:...
View ArticleVMware Version Numbers (vspecialist)
I’ve been invited onto the beta of the next version of VMware Workstation. There’s nothing much unusual about that. I have a licensed copy of it and have participated before. What’s different this time...
View ArticleNEW: Free VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere! (Run Virtual)
After the release 2 weeks ago of the vSphere hardening guide for 4.1, you might feel overwhelmed with the information in the hardening guide. To help you understand how ‘bad’ your systems are...
View ArticleHow to Connect Iometer Workers to a Master Server Using VMware VIX (Paul...
I spent a few hours this week assisting my team with some Iometer tests. After repeating the same steps over and over on the first two VMs (and looking at the other dozen or so VMs waiting in the...
View ArticlePowerShell Scripts And The ExecutionPolicy Issue (DeinosCloud)
The other day I was trying to execute a modified version of Alan Renouf’s vCheckv5 PowerShell script on a vCenter server. usually before running PowerShell scripts locally on a server I made sure that...
View ArticleVDI Base Image: The Missing Step (myvirtualcloud.net)
How far can you go when creating the perfect base image for your VDI deployment? I haven’t stopped searching for the Holy Grail, however I have recently figured out that a very critical step in the...
View ArticleBecome a true ESXi expert with the new FREE VMware eLearning course and ebook...
Great news for all VMware customers: the VMware Education Services team has just made available a new, FREE elearning course dedicated to ESXi , “Transition to ESXi Essentials”. The course is a...
View ArticleConnecting Cisco Catalyst 2960-S to Nexus 5010 (blog.scottlowe.org)
Today I learned some useful tidbits in connecting a Catalyst 2960-S to a Nexus 5010. Interested in the details? Read the full article.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the...
View ArticlePassed my VCAP-DCD (Jume)
Hi all, just wanted to let you know I PASSED my VCAP-DCD exam. I arrived at Global Knowledge at 8:55. After signing and checking my ID, they tried to take a picture. I guess that was very hard, since...
View ArticleVeeam Survey on using Enterprise Management tools for Virtualization...
Many enterprises see virtualization as an opportunity to dump what they perceive as expensive, inflexible, and difficult to use enterprise management tools in favor of ones built for the new dynamic...
View ArticleVDR 1.2.1 with enhanced stability (ESX Virtualization)
Maintenance release of VMware Data Recovery (VDR) – 1.2.1 It seems that I completely missed this update of VDR. It’s just maintenance release. This version 1.2.1 brings up some enhancements which are...
View ArticleA Really Quick Poll (VMware Support Insider)
We have a quick poll for you today, just one question that takes 10 seconds to answer: Your browser doesn't support iFrames :( Vote for this poll &amp;amp;amp;lt;a...
View ArticleRelease: Virtual Computer NxTop 3 Service Pack 1 – Updated (virtualization.info)
Virtual Computer has released service pack 1 for its client hypervisor NxTop version 3.0 which was released in September last year. NxTop consists of two tiers, NxTop Client which is...
View ArticleKaspersky announces support for VMware vShield. (Run Virtual)
I really hope 2011 will be the year the security industry will design their solutions specific for the virtualization platform. And we are good on track. HP released their tipping point solution for...
View ArticleVeeam: Change the Veeam Storage Optimization with Powershell (ICT-Freak.nl)
In Veeam Backup and Replication you can choose three different types of Storage optimization. See the blog post on the Veeam website for more info: http://www.veeam.com/blog From @gostev I received the...
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