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Category Archives: VMWare
VMware AppSpeed Probes and more 2% Maintenance Mode Problems
Posted by on October 14, 2009
Following on from my last post on problems entering maintenance mode with FT-enabled VMs, I seem to have found another one – if you have the rather excellent AppSpeed product deployed on an ESX cluster and you want to put a host into maintenance mode it gets stuck at 2% as it can’t move [...]
VMware FT, 2 Nodes and stuck on 2% entering maintenance mode
Posted by on October 14, 2009
I have a 2 node vSphere cluster running on a pair of ML115g5 servers (cheap ESX nodes, FT compatible) and I was trying to put one into maintenance mode so I could update its host profile, however it got stuck at 2% entering maintenance mode, it appeared to vMotion off the VMs it was [...]
Problem with Installing vCenter Chargeback – cannot configure with SQL Windows Authentication
Posted by on July 15, 2009
I am setting a trial of the new vCenter Chargeback product on my lab environment, and have followed the instructions to configure the SQL database (new DB and new account with database owner permissions) however when I try to configure the Windows application I get errors from the jdbc component as follows; “The user [...]
Long Distance vMotion… heading to the vCloud
Posted by on June 30, 2009
VMware have an interesting proof of concept document posted online here, this is great progress for the platform and it can only be helped out by the close partnership with Cisco that has resulted in the NX1000V switch. I’m no networking expert but to my understanding there are issues with extending Layer 2 networks [...]
vSphere ESXi as a VM – VMKernel Traffic Not Working
Posted by on June 12, 2009
In the lab I am currently working with I have a set of vSphere 4 ESXi installations running as a virtual machine and configured in an HA cluster – this is a great setup for testing VM patches, and general ops procedures or learning about VMware HA/DRS/FT etc. (this lab is running on a [...]
Cheap vSphere Server
Posted by on May 21, 2009
If you have a home lab setup or want to get going with learning VMware’s new vSphere product you will need an x64 capable machine to run it on, although it does also run under VMware Workstation too – even supporting nested VMs and physical ESX to virtual ESX vMotion! unfortunately it won’t run [...]
vSphere RC RAM Under VMware Workstation: How Low Can You Go?
Posted by on May 8, 2009
Getting ESX (in it’s various versions) to run under VMware Workstation has proven to be a very popular article on this blog, if you are a consultant who has to do product demos of VI3/vSphere or are studying for your VCP it’s a very useful thing to be able to do on your own [...]
VMware Visio/PPT Objects
Posted by on March 26, 2009
Thanks to this post from Eric and following on from my last post on the subject of network diagrams here is a list of places to go and download good quality official Visio stencils for doing VMware related diagramming. Links: PPT objects http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1338 Visio objects http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1346 Some examples of the objects they contain are [...]
How VMware IT use VMware Internally
Posted by on February 25, 2009
This was a very interesting session, it wasn’t on my printed programme so I assume it was re-organised from somewhere else but as I was in the area I went to it rather than my planned session. The presentation was given by VMware’s CIO and was set to cover how VMware use virtualization internally, [...]
VMworld Europe Day 2: Keynote
Posted by on February 25, 2009
Well day 2 got underway with the much anticipated keynote session from Steve Herrod who is CTO and VP of R&D or “technical stuff”. He covered some of the previous announcements and did manage to clarify that vSphere is the implementation of VDC-OS (so it’s the new name for Virtual Infrastructure). Steve Herrod let [...]
