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Presentations from an Israel VMUG

I was waiting for these to come in they have arrived, and I think that you all could benefit from these presentations. vSphere, What’s New? - Technical Overview - Ofir Zamir (Team Leader SEs, …

  • Virtualization
  • VMUG
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
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How much RAM for an ESX server - a.k.a. Lego Blocks

I started to read the sample chapters that Scott Lowe released from his upcoming book, and one of the parts were about the subject of scaling up vs. scaling out. A slight bit more of an explanation as …

  • Tools
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
5 min read

vMotion issues (78%)

In the current series of posts I am writing on running a vSphere lab on ESX 1, 2 and 3, I wanted to set up an NFS shared storage between my 2 ESX hosts to test vMotion. I ran into an interesting issue …

  • VMotion
  • Scripting
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3

We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion. If you looked at the previous topology of my lab you will notice that there was no …

  • Lab
  • VMotion
  • vSphere
  • VMware
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ESX 4.0 running a vSphere Lab - Part 2

So Part 1 was about setting up the test environment. This part will be about setting up a cluster. But before we can do anything with setting up clusters we need to set up networking. This might be a …

  • Lab
  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • VMware
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ESX 4.0 running a vSphere Lab - part 1

I started out on my quest for getting a vSphere environment up for testing of the new technologies. I already had a Beta environment running - but for those of you who did not realize our Beta serial …

  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • ESX
  • vCenter
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vSphere HCL – Downloadable

As of now there is only an online HCL. Till the official documents are released – here are the documents in PDF Systems Guide I/O Devices Storage/SAN

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
3 min read

Enable EVC on a Cluster

One of the wonderful useful features that was released with ESX 3.5 U2 was Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC). From the release notes: Enhanced VMotion Compatibility – Simplifies VMotion …

  • Virtualization
  • VMotion
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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Error Converting to Template

Today I came across an issue that seemed to be strange. I tried to convert a template to VM in order to apply some patch updates. When trying I got a error message: So I went into the folder where the …

  • Virtualization
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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I Would Love a Rolls-Royce but...

With the Virtualization world buzzing and with latest Microsoft announcement from today that the Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server will be completely free of charge (and will come with Live Migration and …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Hyper-V