Here is a new video inspired by Alan Renouf’s post. Well I wanted to test Alan’s post on starting SSH service on your ESXi 4.1 host remotely via PowerCLI. And as you know, picture (video) is worth a thousand words…. I’ve done a video of that. Now, I’m not a scripting guy.. not at all. […]
Interresting KB about re-appearing the VMware tools icons in the taskbar
How to make reapear your VMware Tools Icon, in case it got lost somehow. This is a quick how-to. Really no brainer, but worth to remember. In this KB recently refreshed it’s discussed a situation when you won’t see the VMware Tools icon in the taskbar anymore. What to do? There is just this VMware […]
Free tool from Quest Software can monitor 1 vCenter Server and 250 VMs
Monitor 1 vCenter for free with vFoglight Quick View. Yes, that’s a lot. For quite some SMB customers it’s a great news, since this free tool from Quest Software can monitor up to 500 objects (250 VMs) and 1 vCenter Server. But the full product – vFoglight 6.5 can do more than that. You can […]
Interview with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions.
Double Take becomes a part of Vision Solutions. Double Take software was acquired earlier this year by Vision Solutions. I had a chance to be introduced with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions and he replied on some of my questions I asked about. @vladan. So let me introduce yourself. What’s your name and what’s your […]
Difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through
USB device device path-through is vMotion aware, not VMDirectPath. I just stumbled into this KB showing what’s the difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through. Read on if you’re not sure or you want/need to get a specific high-speed configuration with 10Gigs NIC available only for your VM (without the Virtualization […]
How-to setup number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine
Since vSphere 4.1 VMware supports Multicore Virtual CPU technology. You may not only implement and assign how many vCPU per VM (up to 8 vCPU in entreprise plus, up to 4 vCPU for the others), but also you can define how many cores per vCPU that VM will have. This could be used to maximize […]
Virtualizing Domain controller
Virtualizing Domain controller is the subject of today’s post. I was able to attend a session which is oriented for some lead practices for Virtualizing Active Directory using vSphere. The session EA6705 was full or almost. Some of my customers are still fearing going full virtual, or some of you who working in an organization where […]
vCenter ports requirements
vCenter Ports used in vCenter Server. In case you study for a VCP exam and preparing your VCP 4 certification, you will certainly stumble during browsing the VCP blueprint through the vCenter port requirements. You can get a diagram from Virtualinsanity.com, where Dudley Smith did a great job with his diagram in PDF format. You can see […]
VM with snapshots some best practices
A new KB brought my attention about VMware Snapshots. It’s certainly not a good idea to run a VM with snapshots during longer period of times. First of all, snapshots consume disk space. But even if it’s fairly easy to have a VM and take snapshots periodically with a vCenter actions, but is that really […]
Create your own Provider Virtual Data Center
A new video from KBTV shows you some steps of creation of the Provider Virtual Data Center. A PvDC – Private Virtual Data Center – creates an abstraction of Compute and Storage Virtual Resources that can represent a geographically located compute (for example, East Coast vCenter), a level of service (for example, fast compute and/or […]
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