Posts Tagged ‘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 [...]

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 [...]

hello 2010, hello Copenhagen
Today the word is out on Twitter.
VMworld Europe 2010 will be held October 11 – 14 in the Bella Centre in Copenhagen. So bye bye Cannes, hello Copenhagen.
On twitter @vnagornyi noticed the last page of the VMworld 2009 Conference Program Guide which shows the dates and locations of the VMworld 2010 conferences:
VMworld [...]

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 [...]