Fujitsu Servers performance’s winning benchmarks on 32 and 24 cores systems. What is VMark? VMmark is an industry’s first virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers. VMmark can be used by equipment manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators and other organizations. With VMark you can: Measure virtual machine performance. Compare the the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms. […]
VMware partners with Symantec on ApplicationHA
Enforce VMware HA with Symantec’s ApplicationHA. Symantec is about to release (in September) new product called ApplicationHA. What’s that? It is based on the Veritas Cluster Server technology and provides application availability in coordination with VMware HA. As you know the VMware HA help to restart your VM on another server, but what about the […]
SIOC yes, but not in the SMB kit…
Which vSphere 4.1 features really matters for SMB market. Since the release of the new vSphere 4.1 there has been quite a lot features presented from the technical side. One of the new features present is SIOC. The Storage Input Output control. Yes it’s great, but unfortunately you’ll not find this feature in the vSphere […]
Best practices KB on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter
How to install vCenter 4.1 and ESX 4.1 best practices KB. Browsing some KB articles this morning I found a KB with some best practices on how-to install ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server. I can highly recommend this one….It’s actually a walk through point after point to be fulfilled to successfully install your vCenter and […]
Hyper-V and new linux integration tools
Apparently new version of linux integration services for Hyper-V v.2.0 The Microsoft Virtualization Team blog published version 2.1 of Linux Integration Services. This version is for Hyper-V v.2.0. The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. Well, even if Microsoft […]
How to Fix “Transaction log for database ‘VIM_VCDB’ is full” errors
Transaction log for VIM_VCDB is full. A week or two after an upgrade of vCenter to the 4.1 version I ended up with a vCenter server service down. I could not connect with my VI client any more, so I RDP to my vCenter server and I saw the vCenter server service was down. I […]
How to change from ACPI Multiprocessor HAL back to ACPI Uniprocessor HAL in Windows 2003
Changing the number of vCPUs back to 1. A post by Jason Boche explaining the benefits in terms of cost for running individual applications in your vSphere 4.1 virtual infrastructure. By using multiple cores of an individual socket (if the application is licensed per socket) you’re able to gain in necessary resources for your application […]
AD Integration for ESXi 4.1
The new feature of ESXi 4.1 – Active Directory integration, and also boot from SAN and scriptable installations now making the ESXi THE HYPERVIZOR as a choice for deployments. Vmware warned that vSphere 4.1 is the latest version with ESX classic (with the service console). With other improvements to the vSphere CLI, like the possibility […]
vCenter converter with Hyper-V import
vCenter Converter now with Hyper-V import possibility. One of the caveats the vSphere 4.0 was the vCenter Converter Client. The one bundled with vCenter 4.0. Did not do the P2V with as a destination having thin provisioned disks. In that time, you had actually two choices. First: Do the conversion, and then storage vMotion to […]
Serial Port handling in ESXi 4.1
It’s possible to use a serial port now on your physical host in ESXi 4.1 Few months back, way before the ESXi 4.1 went out I wrote an article about ESXi 4 which was not supporting serial ports. Serial ports are used for locally attached serial devices like a FAX/modems or some UPS devices. This […]
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