MAC OS on vSphere! Thanks to IDE support!
One nice little feature added to ESX4 is IDE disk support for the VMs. This of course allows us to now run all of our favorite VMs that…
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More new stuff in vSphere.
Unless you have been stuck under a rock, you know that VMware made their vSphere announcement last week. There are plenty of blogs to read to get the…
Have you renewed Maintenance on your Production Software?
What impact does letting your software maintenance expire have? As a real life example, Customer X had purchased VMware ESX 3.0.2 with 1 year support. They had chose…
Comparing VMware’s ESX to the free ESXi Hypervisor
Saw this TIMELY tweet pop by my screen from Duncan Epping on the differences between ESX and ESXi. Timely since I just had a conversation with a client…
Enable VT and EVC in the Dell BIOS.
To enable 64-Bit support for Virtual Machines in VMware ESX, you must Enable Virtualization Technology and to configure the ESX host for Enhanced vMotion Compatibility, you must Enable…
Replicating direct attached storage Virtual Machines
So I have seen estimates here and there stating that upwards of 80% of VI installations are SAN attached. For me personally, the number is more towards 95%…
iSCSI – Hardware or Software – How many TOEs do you have?
More and more of my new implementations of VMware Infrastructure are being connected to iSCSI SANs (EMC, LeftHand, and Equallogic) and the question has come up about whether…
VMware VirtualCenter as a Virtual Machine
I seem to run into this over and over again. Clients that are confused about whether to put VirtualCenter (now called vCenter) on a physical server or a…
Great VMware troubleshooting tip
Recently, I had the opportunity to call VMware technical support and received a fantastic tip to aid in troubleshooting networking issues. Backdrop: After installing 4 ESX servers on…