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3 min read

Can We move to only one Physical CPU?

I started reading Eric Siebert’s book this afternoon - Maximum vSphere: Tips, How-Tos, and Best Practices for Working with VMware vSphere 4 (which is a great book - highly recommended!!), and …

  • vSphere
  • VMware
  • ESX
2 min read

Host Crash because of ESX Active Directory Authentication

I was subscribed to this thread and received an update today that I must have missed previously, with an issue much more serious than the one that the thread was originally started with. Previously, I …

  • Active Directory
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Administration
2 min read

The HP G7 does not use /dev/cciss/c0d0

I was entrusted with the deployment of a new HP DL380 G7 as a new ESX Host. I have my build process down very well. I use the UDA: create a new sub-template enter the information that I need in for …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
4 min read

What's New in vSphere 4.1

A small group of people were granted access to the Release Candidate Beta and over the past 3 weeks have been exposed to the new features and improvements that are involved with this new release. I …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
  • ESX
1 min read

Be Careful of the 9th Host in the Cluster

I was looking yesterday at post from Matt McSpirit regarding the Cluster Limits of Hyper-V. I started to look at how this would compare to vSphere. I do not want to go into who can cram more …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • ESX
3 min read

New Updates of VMware Products

As Always, Test Before you deploy!!! VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Available. Release Notes - Download Link - Admin Guide Here are some highlights of the new release: a file level restore client for Linux …

  • vSphere
  • VMware
  • ESX
  • vCenter
1 min read

VMware Tools Icon Changed – Did you notice?

While installing VMware tools on a virtual machine this week on VMware Workstation 7.1 (build-261024) I noticed that the small icon that appears to show that VMware tools are installed looked …

  • Tools
  • Workstation
  • VMware
  • ESX
1 min read

vCenter Essentials - 3 Host Limit (not 6 CPU)

vSphere Essentials is a package that is for the SMB. At present there is a promotional offer (Until June 15, 2010) reducing the price from $995 to $495. In this package you receive vCenter and 3 ESX …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
2 min read

Need a Lot of IOPS?

I was introduced to an product today that caught my eye. HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class So what is this IO module. It is a mezzanine card that is currently available in HP …

  • Miscellaneous
  • ESX
3 min read

Inject VMware drivers into Source OS before P2V

P2V a machine - who does not want to get rid of all their physical machines to get the rid of the old hardware? If so raise you hand! So now that we have that out the way - P2V’ing a Windows …

  • Tools
  • Windows
  • Administration
  • ESX