ESXi patches - My Response to Jeff Woolsey
Jeff Woolsey posted a comparison of disk footprint of ESXi and Windows 2008 Hyper-V server. Not getting into what I think of it yet, just a few facts and misconceptions before I start. Since then …
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It is less than 1 month to VMWorld 2009 in the Moscone Center in San Francisco (August 31-September 3, 2009). A great conference to start with, and picking up more and more momentum as we draw closer. …
Install ESX on your Laptop - I had a Crazy Idea
And so this started today with a Twitter post. If you know it or not I am a big enthusiast of trying to install ESX on all kinds of hardware - especially Whiteboxes that are not on the HCL. I have …
VI client Install in Disconnected Environments
Yes disconnected environments do exist! I mean completely and totally disconnected. NO INTERNET!!! Well I had one of those today. My customer has a network which is completely and physically …
How Heavy is your ESX Load?
Well ok.. This could be taken the wrong way (and all of your with the dirty minds should be ashamed of yourselves - ha ha). On one of my previous posts - How Much Ram per Host - a.k.a Lego - I gave a …
Promotional Drawing for Free VMworld Pass
No I am not offering one - VMware is. Hot off the press from Twitter - starts now until Midnight - July 24, 2009. The idea is for you to register for the conference and therefore become eligible to …
VMware Workstation & Unity
One of the little known features but, at least I think so, the coolest gems in the last few versions of VMware Workstation is Unity Mode. Access applications within virtual machines as if they were …
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 …
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 …
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 …