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Category Archives: ESX
Funky USB Device Entries After Using VM Converter..
Posted by on July 6, 2008
I’ve noticed this a couple of times, if you P2V a VM from VM Workstation to ESX using VM Converter – it brings across a virtual USB device which isn’t supported by ESX.. if you look at the properties you get the following amusing entries.. Now, I wish I really did have a funky [...]
VMWare/Cisco Switching Integration
Posted by on June 21, 2008
As noted here there is a doc that has been jointly produced between VMWare and Cisco which has all the details required for integrating VI virtual switches with physical switching. Especially handy if you need to work with networking teams to make sure things are configured correctly to allow failover properly between redundant switches/fabrics [...]
Can you run ESX as a VM under ESX?
Posted by on June 12, 2008
Crazy, yeah – but hey you’ve got to try it, prompted by a question from Prasad – can you run ESX in a VM under ESX? In the interest of science I just tried this, I used VM Convertor to convert my working ESX under workstation image as-is to my ESX box (hoping it [...]
Slow vMotion..
Posted by on June 2, 2008
Note to remember, don’t forget to check the duplex settings on NICs handling your vMotion traffic. My updated clustered ESX test lab is progressing (more posts on that in the next week or so)… and I’m kind of limited in that I only have an old 24-port 100Mb Cisco hub for the networking at [...]
Running ESX 3.5 and 3i Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta Build 91182
Posted by on May 18, 2008
Following on from my earlier post I upgraded my installation to the new build of 6.5. it un-installed the old build and re-installed the latest without a problem, took about 30mins and required a reboot of the host OS. All my previously suspended XP/2003 VM’s resumed ok without a restart but needed an upgrade [...]
Deleting a Virtual Machine from Virtual Center and Disk
Posted by on May 14, 2008
If you deploy your VM’s from a master image using Virtual Center’s Deploy from template functionality (below). When you try and delete a virtual machine you’ve created from disk You get the following prompt Are you sure you want to delete this VM and it’s associated base disk? Please note if other VMs [...]
Solid Sate SAN, Storage vMotion and VMWare – HSM for your VMs
Posted by on May 13, 2008
You’ve been able to buy solid state SAN technology like the Tera-RAMSAN from TMS which gives you up to 1Tb of storage, presented over 4Gb/s fibre channel or Infiniband @10Gb/s… with the cost of flash storage dropping its going to soon fall in to the realms of affordability (from memory a year ago 1Tb [...]
Misc bits of Useful, Recent VMWare News
Posted by on May 12, 2008
I’ve been really busy the last couple of weeks and I’ve had to trim down my incoming RSS feeds, as there was too much noise and I was missing important things like the following; Scott Lowe’s summary of sessions from VMWare’s partner Exchange, some useful information on Site Recovery Manger The new VMWare Certified [...]
Lifecycle Manager, Site Recovery Manager and Stage Manager Released
Posted by on May 12, 2008
Linkage here. VMWare are shaping up to have a really good set of management tools – lab and site recovery manager are of particular interest to me for several projects I’m working on.
VMWare Server Performance – A Practical Example
Posted by on April 19, 2008
The following screen dump is from an HP DL380G5 server that runs all the core infrastructure under VMWare Server (the free one) for a friend’s company which I admin sometimes. It is housed in some co-lo space and runs the average range of Windows servers used by a small but global business, Exchange SQL, [...]
