Enable VT and EVC in the Hewlett Packard (HP) BIOS
I’ve posted screen shots on how to enable VT and EVC on Dell servers before so when I had an opportunity to grab the screenshots for the HP…
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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…
Verifying Microsoft Exchange 2010 Support in VMware vSphere.
I recently had to find some support documentation for a colleague that verified if Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server running on Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 server would be a…
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…
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…
EMC’s Low Cost SAN Starter for VMware (Iomega)
Stephen Foskett gave us a teaser last night at the VMware Community Roundtables about an announcement of a low cost SAN solution for VMware labs or small environments. …
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…
Check your DNS with DNSDataView
DNS is critical to proper Virtual Infrastructure operations. Whether its client to server or server to server communications, it is important that all parts involved are using the…
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…