Great Distributed Power Management Video
As blogged by Jason Boche, there has been confirmation that DPM will be fully supported in the next release of VMware VirtualCenter. I am hoping to see rule…
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Nice to HaveWare : RVTools 2.1
Just saw a post from Duncan about a new cool tool upgrade! RVTools from Rob de Veij just got a little better. This handy little utility gives you…
New Hypervisor Feature Comparison Chart by Citrix
Not sure what to make of it (Except that an ESX4 vs.. XenServer 5 chart will look DRAMATICALLY different). I do also disagree with the ‘Shared image…
Creating a local disk VMFS manually:
If the VMFS creation on the local disk fails through the GUI, we can create it via command line as a workaround. Putty into your server : putty…
Nice Uptime!
Here’s something you don’t see everyday! 455 days of continuous UPTIME! Ran across this server at a client today running ESX 2.5.2. Unfortunately I am about to break…
Time for a new Server? I’ll take TWO!
When crafting VMware solutions for clients, I always stress the importance of buying HOST servers in at least pairs. This guarantees that every server will have a vMotion…
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…
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…