RANT: VMDKs or VHDs ; Why do I have to Choose?!?
Virtual Disks. They are single file containers that hold entire file systems within them (think of the Galaxy Marbles in Men in Black!) Operating systems blissfully run within…
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VMware View: Direct Connections or Funneled through the Broker?
When using the Broker in View, you basically have 2 options for connecting to your desktops : Direct Connections or Tunneled SLL through the Broker itself. You can…
No room to upgrade from ESX3 to ESX4 vSphere. Time to Repartition!
I was recently upgrading an ESX host from ESX3.5 to vSphere when I ran into an interesting issue. The server was built with 36GB local drives that utilized…
Upgrading your NT guests on your vSphere Hosts
Yep! Still have some NT guest Virtual Machines hanging out there. :) During a recent VI3 to vSphere upgrade, we had just finished upgrading both vCenters, upgraded Site…
VMware’s Script-O-Mania ESXi Contest – 10 Days Left!
Just helping get the word out on VMware’s Script-O-Mania contest. VMware is hoping that creative, clever and cash strapped developers and scripters out there will be enticed enough…
Enable VT and EVC in the Hewlett Packard (HP) BIOS
I’ve posted screen shots on how to enable VT and EVC on Dell servers before so when I had an opportunity to grab the screenshots for the HP…
Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.
It’s a pretty solid best practice to create a separate virtual disk or VMDK/VHD for each volume in a virtual machine. The alternative is to create 1 vDisk…
Checking VMware Data Recovery (vDR) build versions to verify latest code.
While working on some VMware Data Recovery appliances today, I had to check the build versions to see if they were running the latest bits of code. After…
Only have Basic Support? But I bought GOLD? – VMware Support name change
VMware has rolled out new names for their support tiers. Gold Support now becomes Basic support and Platinum Support now becomes Production Support. · Basic Support is…