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In my previous post, I already wrote about the Top25 Bloggers that were announced by Eric Siebert on vSphere-land.com. Eric has now put the full voting results online. Out of the 66 blogs I ended up as 29th.
Although I didn’t make it into the Top25, I’m still very satisfied ending up on the 29th place with [...]
The votes have been counted and the new Top25 bloggers are revealed by Eric Siebert on vSphere-land. A total amount of over 700 people from all over the world have casted their votes, which delivered Eric a nice weekend counting.
The new Top25 as published by Eric siebert on vSphere-land:
Yellow Bricks – Duncan Epping – 158 [...]
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 [...]
In case you didn’t noticed already, Eric Siebert from vsphere-land has proclaimed a new top bloggers election. Blogging takes a lot of work, and most of us do this on top of our day jobs and hence don’t get paid for it. So I’m honoured to be a nominee alongside world’s greatest virtualization bloggers. Check out the [...]
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 [...]
Last week VMware released PowerCLI 4.0 Update1. According to the PowerCLI blog this new version contains over 60 new cmdlets as well as greatly improved performance.
One great thing is that they put the cmdlet reference online. I always like references online, because they are always at your disposal. When I ‘m working on my scripts, [...]
When I was testing with the new PowerCLI feature to work with multiple VIServers, I ran into a bug. Whenever you disconnect from a VIServer you can’t reconnect to that server. You can however connect to another VIServer, but never to the same VIServer again.
As a workaround for this problem close your PowerCLI session and [...]
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 [...]
In case you didn’t noticed, yesterday was the official announcement of the Dutch VMUG Event 2009. This year’s edition is a little special as it’s the 5th and will take place again at the Nieuwegein Business Centre for the third time in a row.
For me the Dutch VMUG Event is the next best thing to [...]
