Annoying Security Warnings – Importing certificates in Vista
So you have connected to your VirtualCenter server or ESX host and got a big fat annoying Security Warning. Once or twice is fine but after a while…
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This little advertisement managed to escape my SPAM filter. I guess with every vendor in the world jumping into the Virtualization game and every company in the world…
More P2Ps – Extending BartPE Fix-VMSCSI Plugin
Chris Hahn has sent me an updated version of the Fix-VMSCSI plugin to support servers with the QLogic 40xx iscsi HBA based on my post to extend the…
Is my Server 64 Bit Compatible?
While doing some recent beta testing (shhh), I realized that my lab is NOT 64 bit compatible. :( I will have to do some searching around to find…
First Look : BlueBear’s Kodiak Virtual Machine Manager
I was recently sent a private Beta code for the new BlueBear Kodiak Manager. Kodiak is an all in one Virtual Machine manager that currently supports VMware with…
Network Beaconing for switch failure detection
If you are like me, you probably have had most of your networking setups with the typical and reliable Link Status for failure detection. Link status is…
First Look : vKernel SearchMyVM Appliance Beta 1.0
You may have heard about the new search based appliance by vKernel for your VI3 environment, but have you seen it? I had a chance over the weekend…
OVF – Open Virtualization Format
So what is an OVF and why is it neat? You can read the official scribe here, but basically the neatest part about it is the way developers…
HA and DRS behavior in a 2 node Cluster.
An interesting new DRS behavior was introduced with the latest Update 2 patch that I recently became aware of at a client. If you have a 2 node…