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• Don’t Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del On the ESX 4 Console

  
  VM /ETC — Authority: 486
  As reported on vreference.com , there is a dangerous default in ESX 4. Before I expand on this potential problem I want to point out that a bug report has been files with VMware for correcting this in future releases, but for now VI admins need to be aware of the issue – If the key combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del is ...
  15 hours 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 [...]
  6 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Sun X4270 Produces Excellent Result on VMware’s VMmark

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 137
  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, ...
  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

• NetApp SnapManager VI 2.0 Released

  
  VM-Aware — Authority: 103
  NetApp have finally released the latest and greatest version of their SnapManager for VI product. An essential addition to any infrastructure running both VMware & NetApp it allows guaranteed crash consistent versions of Virtual Machines to be replicated to secondary sights. New functionality and enhancements ...
  2 weeks ago

• VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Spells Trouble for VKernel

  
  Virtualization and Capacity Planning Blog — Authority: 112
  Today VMware announced VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0 , a capacity management product for virtual infrastructure. The new product is rough around the edges. For example it still does not support VMware vSphere (VMware should have a policy for not launching new products that do not support its latest platform) nor does ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scripts to automate the process of identifying and compiling an RDM to LUN mapping list for VMware ESX 3.0

  
  Technology, Computer, Network and Games Cheat — Authority: 110
  In an earlier posting I listed a copy of the article explaining how to manually create a RDM to LUN mapping for VMware ESX . I have created scripts to completly automate this process, ftp the result and email the result file. Save the below commands in a file and make it executable. Name the file find-rdm. # ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to identify and compile a RDM to LUN mapping list for VMware ESX 3.0

  
  Technology, Computer, Network and Games Cheat — Authority: 110
  Below is a copy of the article from VMware knowledge base. It explains the steps to create the Raw Decive Mapping to Logical Unit Number. But is you have a VMserver with many virtual clients and LUNs attached, then this manual procedure can take hours. I have created scripts to automate this procedure and email the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are Two Virtualized Halves of a Nehalem Box as Good as the Whole Thing?

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 137
  Depends on the OS, Apparently Curious about the impact of virtualization on benchmarking results? Jan Brosowski blogged in SAPonSun about testing two “half-box” virtual machines on the same box. He discovered a striking difference. (Get More Information . .)
  3 weeks ago

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