VMware Enterprise licensing rumors
A few of my enterprise customers have been asking me if I know anything about the recent changes in VMware licensing. Specifically, that VMware was to discontinue vSphere…
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Vizioncore’s vProducts (vOptimizer, vRanger & vReplicator) rundown
This week Steve Koff from Vizioncore came by our offices to give us a rundown of the vProduct line. :-) For those not familiar with VizionCore, think vRanger…
Configuring a Network share for VMware Data Recovery (vDR)
Now that you have dutifully followed John Simon’s clever documentation on installing vDR, you’ll need to give your little appliance some storage space to dump those backups too. …
vSphere (ESX4) and Citrix Provisioning Services
While testing Citrix Provisioning Services on vSphere I noticed a couple of interesting things : Thin Provisioned streamed targets seem pretty neat. ;) Originally a couple of kb,…
How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM
Now that VMware has released their first set of patches for vSphere, let the mass migrations begin! :) John Simon sent me over his EXTENSIVE notes from our…
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…
vSphere vMotion error : Mismatched Host CPU features
It seems that after upgrading a Virtual Machine’s hardware from Version 4 to Version 7 on vSphere, the VM may no longer be able to vMotion between hosts…
Training Lab simulator for vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
Nice little flash simulator for setting up a FT pair of VMs from the VMware Training Class. Enjoy…
All Sorts of issues with VMware and Window 7 RC
Of course I run Windows 7 on my laptop and of course I want to run my vSphere Client. Of course, it is not supported yet. :( Where’s…