Hyper-V Networking
If you are familiar with VMware’s style of networking, with their port groups, vSwitches and native teaming, then Hyper-V’s networking might be a little intimidating. Not that you…
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VMware Fling : ThinApp’d vSphere Client
Finally! I’ve been wishing for this for a WHILE now and VMware has finally come through. Straight out of VMware Labs is a ThinApp’d version of the vSphere…
Creating an ESXi Installer on a USB flash key.
So you’ve read the unconfirmed warnings/rumors of ESX being end of life’d in the next version and you’ve decided to take the plunge and are about to install…
Running ESXi 4.1, Check your network settings!
I came across a pretty interesting issue while troubleshooting a network issue in a new ESXi 4.1 environment. It seems that the default installation of ESXi will hard…
Licensing the Free ESXi
So lots of my clients are beginning to look at Hyper-V and the idea of trying out the free Hypervisor from Microsoft in their development environments. I put…
Patch Tuesday causes issue with VMware View Windows 7 connections.
Looks like a recent patch from Microsoft has caused some view clients to stop connecting. VMware is aware of the newly discovered issue and is advising customers to…
Pesky vCenter ADAM Error
Recently on a Windows 2008 R2 vCenter 4.1 build, I ran across a strange error that was flooding my daily health check report. (vCheck5 – Virtu-Al) Active Directory…
VAAI in vSphere 4.1 COULD break your RecoverPoint consistency groups!
Jeff Miller sent over this warning for environments leveraging vSphere 4.1 and RecoverPoint. Here is all the technical gooeyness. If you are not running FLARE R30 Q410 type…
Installing vCenter 4.1 in a Windows 2000 Domain
I finally found some time to begin installing vCenter 4.1 into my new ESXi lab and ran into an error I thought I would share. The error below…