Change the default path for updates and patches. For the updates: It can be useful many times when after you install vCenter your realize after some time, that you don’t have much space left on your C drive. And you might need to change the path to D, where your drive has plenty of space […]
End of VCB – VMware Consolidated Backup
In the upcoming release of vSphere there will be no more VCB. As some bloggers already announced, VCB backup will be phased out and replaced by VDR. At the moment when you download vSphere, you still have a choice between VCB and VDR. So in vSphere 4.1 (if this is the future release number… 8-)), […]
vSphere Pro Training Vol. 1 Review
My Review of vSphere Pro Training videos from TrainSignal. Last week I received the new additional training for VMware vSphere 4 made by 3 vEperts well known by the VMware Virtualization communities. Those guys are (in no particular order): David Davis, Hal Rottenberg and Rick Scherer. You can find some more details about those guys […]
Starwind iSCSI HA Connection to ESX Server
Part 3 – ESX server configuration In my last article I was explaining how and why setup Starwind High Availability feature to protect you virtual infrastructure data from materiel failure. The article series would not have sense if I would not explain how to connect the iSCSI Target created to my VMware vSphere 4 installation. […]
Surebackup – what? New upcoming product from VEEAM
This is a special report post. Yes, the tweets and blog posts had been just raining the last couple of hours and days. I’m putting my thoughts and wishes too… 😎 . There will be a very new update announced from VEEAM. Or maybe a totally new product? At the moment nobody knows. The only […]
Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools
Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]
See a list of Storage Array Type Plugins on ESX Server
Configuring ALUA – Asymetric Logical Unit Access I was configufing a mutlipath for a Eternus DX 60 storage SAN and there is a section there on configuring ALUA. (Asymetric Logical Unit Access). Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) is a standard-based method for discovering and managing multiple paths to a SCSI LUN. It is described in […]
New whitepaper released on PVSCSI
New test of PVSCSI adapter compared to LSI Logic SAS. Few weeks back I pointed out a VMware KB article surrounding a question when to use PVSCSI. If it’s good idea or not using it for VMs with lower load or not. The article was burried here in the quantity of posts since… Today I […]
Enable Jumbo Frames in ESXi 4
To enable jumbo frames. Since Jumbo Frames are not enabled by default. It can’t since when you install ESXi 4, by default there is only one vSwitch and console and then you only start to build your network configuration. And you will not want to enable jumbo frames for ALL your networks and switches neither. […]
How-to troubleshoot iSCSI connection to your SAN
When you can’t see your LUN… There is several ways to troubleshoot an iSCSI connections. First of all, you should make sure that you can ping your iscsi network interface of your SAN. For this you can use command ping or you can use command vmkping. For example you type: vmkping 192.168.5.10 where this IP […]
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