Thincomputing.net just posted about a new Xenserver Beta. Looking at the new features list it seems things are finally getting up to speed, especially “bonding of NIC’s” is a must have in a enterprise environment. Hope you can also pin the live migration on a specific NIC in this release, but looking at the specs I don’t think it’s possible. [...]

I just had a discussion about an upgrade from 3.0.x to 3.5. During that conversation the new HBA drivers that VMware uses came up. After an upgrade it seems that the queue depth settings are lost. Thinking about it I can understand why. ESX 3.5 uses different driver for most HBA’s. For instance Emulex, their driver for the LP11002 used [...]

Today I encountered a weird error during an implementation of VMware Consolidated Backup. When ever I ran vcbmounter I received the following error:”Run time error – the application the application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.” It seemed that for some reason the vcbuser did not have the role “VMware consolidated backup user” linked anymore. I [...]

That’s what I thought at first, why do I need CDP(Cisco Discovery Protocol)? Well yesterday CDP proved to be an excellent option for troubleshooting weird networking problems. One of my customers replaced a faulty NIC and accidentally switched two network cables. One of these cables was part of an etherchannel, this caused all kind of strange routing / connection errors [...]

Today I was busy trying to find out a way to schedule VCB backups with Commvault with just 1 schedule without having to rewrite your script every time someone creates a VM. The standard procedure is to create a subclient for every VM which is very human error prone. I stumbled upon a blog on RTFM about backing up all [...]

VDI seems to be hot lately. VMware just posted 4 pdf’s which are related to VDI and/or VDM: Using VMware VDI and vmSight for Stronger and Sustainable HIPAA and PCI Compliance For many organizations, HIPAA and PCI compliance is no longer optional. Penalties are increasingly stiff, and the ultimate cost of non-compliance – the breach of personal data – can [...]

A new version of Virtual Iron will be released later this day: Release Number: 4.2.13 New Feature: Linux VSTools installation for kernel updates / new distros Fixes: Windows VSTools hangs during installation SLES 10 CD Based installs fail Archive manager stops running Network associations lost when ports are reset When VSTools is checked on W2k3 domain controller guest all logins [...]