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• HA admission control, the answers…

  
  Yellow Bricks — Authority: 465
  I received a whole bunch of questions around my two latest posts on HA admission control. I added all the info to my HA Deepdive page but just in case you don’t regularly read that section I will post them here as well: The default of 256Mhz when no reservations are set is too conservative in my environment. ...
  10 hours ago

• How-to manage licenses in VMware vSphere 4 video

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  Managing licensing keys in vCenter This video from VMware Kb blog is showing that managing licensing keys in vSphere is made much more easier than it was the case in ESX 3. Basically what you need to do to manage your licenses is that you need to access with your Virtual Infrastructure client (VI client) your ...
  19 hours ago

• How-to Install ESX 4 inside VMware Workstaiton 7 video

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  Installation of ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation I have done a new video with VMware Workstation 7 this time. Now the New VMware Workstation can allow you to Install VMware ESX 4 server inside without any modifications to the VMX configuration file . Like this you can test an installation of an ESX server ...
  1 day ago

• EBS Topic List November 2009

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 149
  Forefront engine changes How to run the IT Environment Health Scanner in an EBS Environment EBS 08 RWW and XP SP3 IE 8 EBS server updates install best practices Scanner unable to send external Email Update, SharePoint Services Add-in for EBS KB970385 Is EBS our answer Congratuation Member #200 Problem with Folder ...
  2 days ago

• How to avoid HA slot sizing issues with reservations?

  
  Yellow Bricks — Authority: 465
  Can I avoid large HA slot sizes due to reservations without resorting to advanced settings? That’s the question I get almost daily. The answer used to be NO. HA uses reservations to calculate the slot size and there’s no way to tell HA to ignore them without using advanced settings pre-vSphere. So there is your ...
  3 days ago

• Are DvSwitches “ready” for Production - Reader Email

  
  RTFM Education — Authority: 115
  This week I was asked in an email the following question:[By the way I hate Wordpress - even when I put paragraph returns in this post it ****ing well removes them!]Hope you been doing well. I have been busy, busy, busy. Got a question for you. Preparing to start a new vSphere farm and trying [...]
  3 days ago

• Scripted ESX4 Installations & Partitioning - Reader Email

  
  RTFM Education — Authority: 115
  Occasionally, (more often than I would really like) I get people emailing asking me to help them on specific problems. Unless these are former customers/students I generally hit delete key!!! Sorry, I’m not being unhelpful but I’m not a one-man help desk guys!Then occasionally, when I’m bored/intrigued I do ...
  3 days ago

• vInternals - Virtual Hardware 7 Undocumented Feature Revealed!

  
  RTFM Education — Authority: 115
  I want to draw ALL my readers attention to Stu Radridge’s blog and in particular to a particular problem in Windows 2008. Although I hate the phrase this is real heads up…Basically, Stu has discovered that VM created on ESX4 with “Virtual Hardware 7 presents virtual disks as SAN devices – not as local disks. ...
  3 days ago

• Free VMware Workstation 7 Fundamentals Course

  
  VMGuru.nl - I choose (a virtual) life! — Authority: 122
  For everyone who is new to VMware Workstation 7 and as a refreshment course for all other VMware workstation users, VMware has released a Free online course you can follow.I must say version 7 of VMware Workstation is a lot faster with starting up and booting virtual machines then version 6.5 was. One very nifty [...]
  4 days ago

• Thin provisioning how could you live without it?

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  If you just starting with VMware Virtualization and want to learn some new features comming with vSphere 4 just read on. Thin provisioning feature which comes with vSphere 4 is cool enough to talk about . Actually I’m even asking myself how come that I could live without it? Thin provisioning can save you a ...
  4 days ago

• Document it…

  
  Yellow Bricks — Authority: 465
  Something that I noticed over the last months while doing design reviews is that hardly anyone documents decisions in a design. Most designs I review are physical designs, which is understandable as most IT people are technical people who could not care less about logical designs. I am perfectly fine with that, ...
  5 days ago

• Virtual Infrastructure best practices

  
  VMGuru.nl - I choose (a virtual) life! — Authority: 122
  Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations but others are pretty obvious. Nevertheless you ...
  5 days ago

• Sun X4270 Produces Excellent Result on VMware’s VMmark

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 136
  Virtualization Benchmark Measures Performance, Scalability The Sun Fire X4270 server running VMware ESX 4.0 OS earned an excellent result on the virtualization benchmark VMmark from VMware for 8 core platforms. The Sun x64 server delivers near linear scalability under the heavy load conditions of the VMmark benchmark, ...
  6 days ago

• Is there enough support for ESXi already

  
  Gabes Virtual World — Authority: 110
  We all know that the future version of vSphere will probably only be the ESXi version. At least, this is what VMware’s aim is for ESX5. Because it is wise to already get used to ESXi now to get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

• Don’t fear using scripts any more… with Virtu-Al’s power pack

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  Power Pack for PowerGUI and VESI from Virtu-Al Aren’t your little bit afraid when it comes to using scripting for your Virtual Infrasctructure? You think that scripts its not for you? You think that you must be a programmer or so? Not any more. With Alain Renouf’s PowerPack for VESI and PowerGUI you don’t ...
  6 days ago

• Starwind iSCSI SAN 5.0 is out with HA feature

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  Starwind just released a version 5.0 of iSCSI SAN software for Windows. The new version of Starwind iSCSI SAN was just released by Starwindsoftware . With easier setup (no need to install startport driver anymore) and feature like High availability . The HA feature provides automatic failover in case one node ...
  1 week ago

• New freeware from Xtravirt – vLogView

  
  ESX Virtualization — Authority: 127
  Freware from Xtravirt to manage ESX Server Logs. vLogView is a Windows® based application which manages VMware® ESX Server log files. The product should installed on an administrators PC, and provides the ability to store, view and search ESX Server log files from multiple ESX Servers, without requiring individual ...
  1 week ago

• VMware Easter Egg? Easy Install of ESXi 4 On VMware Player 3.0

  
  VM /ETC — Authority: 461
  Unlike it’s big brother VMware Workstation 7 , nowhere is it published that ESX/ESXi 4 is a supported guest OS of VMware Player 3.0. In fact, ESX 4 is not even among the listed choices in the Version drop down box when building a new virtual machine (VM), nor is it mentioned in the VMware Player Release Notes ...
  1 week ago

• How to access USB and Other PCI Devices in VMware ESXi4 VMs with VMDirectPath

  
  Petri IT Knowledgebase — Authority: 406
  Introduction to VMDirectPath Although hardware independence is fundamental to many of the advantages of virtualization it also creates a problem when you need to connect a specific hardware device to a virtual machine. Although SCSI passthrough has been available in ESX for some time accessing other types of device, ...
  1 week ago

• Beneficiaries of Open Source Citrix XenServer: Microsoft, Novell and Oracle

  
  Virtualization and Capacity Planning Blog — Authority: 112
  As speculation looms around plans from Citrix to release Citrix XenServer as open source , its worthwhile to analyze how such a move would impact other leading software vendors in the virtualization space. On February 23, 2009 Citrix announced that it will give away the full version of Citrix XenServer for free . ...
  1 week ago

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