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Once Upon a Performance Issue

if you were following me on Twitter - you would have noticed this week that I was extremely busy with troubleshooting and solving a serious performance issue that I encountered. First things first - …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
2 min read

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
4 min read

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
1 min read

vSphere is Born

Well not really born, but it went GA now. After a decent amount of Twitter traffic going back and forward first regarding the knowledge base that started to show up with vSphere KB’s and documentation …

  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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
2 min read

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
1 min read

vSphere Pricing Comparison

I wanted to put up this post mainly for myself, but I sure you can find this useful when trying to compare the differences between VI3 and vSphere. There have been a numerous amount of technical …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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vSphere 4 – So What is new?

Well I think my speculation was not far off. if you read my previous post I speculated that we would not get anything Unofficial Release Date - May 21, 2009. We got this from the day that you can …

  • Virtualization
  • ESX3i
  • VMotion
  • vSphere
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April 21st – What will we get?

So many have already posted about the Virtualization announcement that is planned for April 21st, 2009 (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). You can see from the amount of …

  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware