Released : vDR 1.2 (VMware Data Recovery Appliance)
VMware has released a minor upgrade to their Data Recovery Appliance (vDR). Even though it is just a .point release, they managed to sneak some new features in…
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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…
vMotion Error : Failed to write.
While trying to Migrate some machines (Cold and Hot Migrations) from my old 3.5 farm to my new shiny vSphere lab, I received the following error : A…
vCenter Hardware Status Error – You do not have permission for this command. ; Broken Search
Ran into a Web Services error this week at a client that seems to be caused by the update to vCenter 4. After resolving the issue with Tech…
Job Opportunity : Senior VMware/Citrix Engineer : 120k Base + 18% – 20% Bonus : NYC Area.
If the coming New Year is signaling a time for a new change and you're in the NYC area, you might want to check out this position. This…
ALERT: ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 can cause an Unrecoverable system.
I just saw this come across twitter. (BTW: This is a GREAT example of why Twitter is a valuable technology tool if used correctly.) Upgrading ESX 4.0 to…
vSphere – disable device hot plug on version 7 VMs
Great tip from Chris Hahn : To disable hot plug on a vSphere VM, add the following line to the VM configuration parameters : devices.hotplug false Why would…
Slow VMs using Citrix Provisioning Services using VMXNet3 NIC driver
Chris Hahn made some interesting networking observations recently at a client : I was testing provisioned XP desktops at [CENSORED] today, and I noticed that the provisioned XP…