ESXi vs. ESX – warning, this is a rant!
I recently participated in a discussion thread on LinkedIn in the VMware Certified Professionals group that got to be a little lively. In this discussion, outside of the original poster’s question, a side discussion began on ESXi vs. ESX and all the trouble that it [...]
I decided to sign up for Microsoft Connect and download the Windows Home Server “Vail” public preview and install it in my lab vSphere lab. I recently picked up an Iomega ix4-200 and had some extra space so I wanted to try to streaming media and backup functionality.
After Windows (Server 2008 R2) installed, and the [...]
This applies to virtual switches that have already been created.
I was trying to do this earlier this evening and found a few articles that talked about various methods to enable jumbo frame support on a vSwitch. After reading some of the ‘hacks’ that are being used, I decided to dig into PowerCLI. Amazingly enough, the [...]
I’ve been experimenting with creating a good Windows Server 2008 R2 template for VMware vSphere 4 and wondered just how many times Microsoft would allow an activation on the same MSDN license key (Multiple Activation) for the OS. I often deploy multiple servers at a time and am always fearful of activating since I don’t [...]
As I’ve upgraded my lab environment to vSphere over the weekend, I’ve been running across the occasional VM that fails to allow me to upgrade it’s VMware Tools. This seems to be predominantly happening with my Windows Server 2008 VMs.
I’ve received various error messages including ‘can’t find vmware tools.msi’ looking at c:\windows\installers, and messages [...]
UPDATED 12/5/2009 to include vSphere commands.
This is a quick note, mostly to help remind me and hopefully help someone else out.
You can use standard Linux commands to connect an ESX host to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. You can use a NAS to store things like ISO’s and backups. I have many gig’s of [...]
Tonight I decided to go on the magical journey of upgrading my ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere using the Host Update Utility. I’m usually a firm believer in ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’ but this time I decided to take the plunge and see what happens.
A few months ago, I ran through the [...]
I’ve been running multiple subnets in my lab, and been dealing with the pain of having to VPN into each separate subnet when needing to make a change, test something, or deploy something. It’s been a learning experience and I’ve configured both OpenVPN and ISA Server 2006 VPN’s and successfully bounced around the various networks [...]
For anyone that hasn’t downloaded the RC for VMware Workstation 7, you’ve got to give it a try, and since it’s free right now, you have no excuse. Worst case scenario is you have to reinstall Workstation 6. Like Nike, Just Do It!
Anyway, one of the coolest features in VMware Workstation 7 is Unity. If [...]
Pablo Roesch, VMware, has put out a poster that their marketing department did, that has a listing of the PowerCLI commandlets. This is a very useful tool for anyone working in PowerShell using the VMware Toolkit for Windows.
It’s originally posted in this forum a VMware forum: http://bit.ly/1602Au
I’ve placed a the file in my media library [...]