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Optimize your VMs by uninstalling physical hardware after P2V

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After your P2V one of those steps to do at first is the Installation of VMware Tools. Also, not only you should get rid of all the physical hardware in Device manager that’s not used any more but also those software packages which had been used on a physical server to manage the hardware (like […]

VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access

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Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not supported with current release… You can install it as a second disk, for your […]

Get the best performance from your vSphere 4 infrastructure.

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There is agreat new PDF available concerning the performance issues  tweaks, advices and troubleshooting for your vSphere 4 architecture. If you are a simple admin in a Small business company or a Data-center engineer, this guide is just a must have… The author is Hal Rosenberg and he works as performance engineer at VMware. The […]

iOmega IX4 how-to video of configuration for iSCSI and NFS

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If you are fan of iOmega ix2 and ix4 series than you’ll like this post and the video in it. The video is showing that the configuration of the device is fairly straightforward. It’s a shame that the sound it’s quite low, but the presentation is very straightforward. This video comes from Chad SACAC’s Blog. […]

New video from TrainSignal – Fault Tolerance – an ultimate protection for your VMs

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Train Signal best selling VMware vSphere 4 video learning course. UPDATE: there is an additional course available called vSphere Pro Training vol.1 , which will teach you VMware View, Thinapp, and Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed switches… Purchased together you save 100$. See on this post. There is a great new video from TrainSignal. It’s a […]

vMotion for long distance… cool. VMware and vSphere is already in the Sky..

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vMotion Certified for 200 Kilometers by VMware Now it’s just been certified by VMware that the long distance vMotion is officially supported by VMware. The maximum distance is 200 Kilometers. That’s perfect because our Island has about this distance. From St Denis to St Pierre (Two capitals) there is only about 80 Kilometers… -:). There […]

New product from EMC for the SMB and home market

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This looks like that I could upgrade my Home Lab… -:) New blog post on Chad’s blog makes me really excited. We’ll see some new product family coming soon to the stores. It’s targeted for SMB and home market users. And that’s really interesting. With products which are more easy to use, they are ing […]

vCenter Server Service does not start automaticaly

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I had this issue with vCenter Server on my home lab. Virtual Center starts before the SQL database it depends on. I found a solution in a KB on VMware’s website. This article provides steps to prevent the race condition from occurring.   VirtualCenter service does not start after reboot. First I checked log files […]

How-to auto Login to Virtual Center with VI Client

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Is this possible? Oh yes… So what’s this all about? You are able to auto login to your vCenter Server without typing login/password every time. You can do it by using pass through authentication. Simply add the following to your VI Client shortcut (at te End): -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local So the whole line should look like this: […]