Posts under ‘VMware’

I just noticed that VMware released a couple of critical ESX3.5 fixes on December 29th, shortly after releasing ESX3.5 Update5 on December 3rd. Wading through the patch details I stumbled upon some severe issues addressed by the ESX350-200912401-BG patch. I quote some issues that caught my eye: 

ESX hosts might get disconnected from VirtualCenter Server. This issue [...]

When running some storage test on an ESX 3.5 environment lately, I ran into a problem where a dead storage path disappeared after a rescan. While this was as expected, the storage path didn’t return after fixing it in the SAN and running a rescan again. After a reboot of the ESX server, the new [...]

Nowadays more and more companies have or are considering a 2nd datacenter in another site. Mostly the main reason for this 2nd datacenter is for disaster recovery purposes. There are 2 ways to utilize this 2nd datacenter. First one could choose for an active-passive setup, where in the 2nd datacenter bare-metal servers are waiting to [...]

With the newest release of Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard I raised the question if it was possible to install Mac OS X in a virtual machine, because that would be nice to test drive the new OS before updating my precious iMac.
When looking into VMware Fusion I noticed that I could select Mac [...]

Occasionally I get the question “Hey, I’m new to VMware virtualization. Since you are the expert, can you please tell me where to start?” All right, if you really want to get started, let me give you some guidelines. First you need a VMware virtualization layer. There are different options to choose from.
Desktop Products
If you [...]

The word is out. Yesterday VMware announced that VMworld Europe will be held in October 2010 instead of February.
from the source article:
We are pleased to announce that VMworld Europe will be held in October 2010. The VMworld Europe conference will follow our Global VMworld conference, scheduled for San Francisco in September 2010, to ensure that [...]

If you love VMware you have to love Apple and if you love ESX4.0 you have to love a Mac. Well, at least I know I do. Both companies are light years ahead of their competitors and characterized by superior design, excellent performance and both fighting Microsoft’s marketing machine.
Since I’m a great Mac fan and [...]

In part 1, I explained the virtual machine settings that are available to us regarding to memory, in part 2, I explained how the ESX kernel assigns memory to a VM and in this part I will dive into ESX memory reclaiming techniques.
The ESX kernel uses transparent page sharing, ballooning and swapping to reclaim memory. [...]

A while ago Alan Renouf had a great idea and held a survey about what people thought of an online VMUG. Based on the results he’s now proud to announce the first Unofficial Online VMware User Group on June 1st 2009. View his original post here.
Please record this date in your agenda and register here.
The [...]

In part 1, I explained the virtual machine memory settings that are available to us. This caused quite some controversy on what would happen when a limit is hit that’s configured lower than the actual allocated memory.
Scott Herold did an excellent follow-up on this. Be sure to read his article too, because it contains valuable [...]