Tag: vSphere

No more Windows Patching via VMware Update Manager 5.

No more Windows Patching via VMware Update Manager 5.

Messing around the new VMware Update Manager and I noticed this little piece of information.  Update Manager 5.0 does not support VM patching.  Prior versions ... Read More

VMware Enterprise  or Enterprise Plus?

VMware Enterprise or Enterprise Plus?

You may have heard about the coming licensing changes from VMware.  You may have heard about the new vRAM licensing and some of the impacts ... Read More

VMware Fling : ThinApp’d vSphere Client

VMware Fling : ThinApp’d vSphere Client

Finally!  I’ve been wishing for this for a WHILE now and VMware has finally come through.  Straight out of VMware Labs is a ThinApp’d version ... Read More

VAAI in vSphere 4.1 COULD break your RecoverPoint consistency groups!

VAAI in vSphere 4.1 COULD break your RecoverPoint consistency groups!

Jeff Miller sent over this warning for environments leveraging vSphere 4.1 and RecoverPoint.  Here is all the technical gooeyness. If you are not running FLARE ... Read More

Building the ESXi Boot Drive.

Building the ESXi Boot Drive.

With my new lab being built out for VMware vSphere 4.1, I took the opportunity to make the jump over to ESXi from ESX.  The ... Read More