My colleague Edwin had some spare time on his hands and decided to Thinstall the VirtualCenter client. I just tested the client and it works great. Starting the client is as fast, and maybe even faster, as a normal install. Check his article on Thinstallguru.com. Let’s hope VMware will also provide a Thinstalled version soon [...]

For the readers of my blog in the Benelux area:
Nowadays Application Delivery is a hot item to talk about! On monday 28 january 2008 Ictivity Training starts with the first introduction training: “The facts about Application Delivery”.In this training different products like Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid), Citrix Application Streaming Feature and Thinstall VS will be [...]

Using the console it’s very easy to rescan a specific vmhba which can be useful when you are troubleshooting. For lazy people like me it’s disturbing that you have to type the command twice if you want to rescan both HBA’s. Well, as of version 3.5 VMware introduced a new setting in Advanced configuration section [...]

Recently I implemented ESX 3.5 with VirtualCenter 2.5. After I installed the ESX Hosts and the VirtualCenter server the customer told me that I had to change the ip-addresses of the service console. I removed the ESX hosts from the VirtualCenter server, removed the vswif of both hosts with “esxcfg-vswif -d” and created it again [...]

VMwarewolf already posted this fix on his blog but had to remove it… Now VMware added it to their knowledge base. Check out the original article because it may change in time. For the lazy people I included how to diagnose the problem and more…
Diagnose the problem:

Use the VI Client to log in to VirtualCenter [...]

When writing the “Checking the diskspace on your VMFS volumes” blog I assumed that most of you knew how to send an email from the service console. I received a bunch of emails from people who were interested in how to setup the html email functionality. Well, here it is:
A while back VMGuru.com hosted a [...]

Check out the already extensive list of sessions for VMworld Europe 2008! There are a couple of sessions I will attend for sure: VMware Infrastructure 3 Networking - Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting, Smart Application Deployment - Moving Beyond VirtualCenter Templates and ESX Server best practices for performance. See you in Cannes!

I already blogged about it, but the new product VMware Stage Manager is now available as a beta download. Try it! Key features in this release:

Rapidly create new multi-server software configurations (services)
Monitor resource usage on a per-service, per-stage and per-instance basis
Easily perform operations on a complete service (e.g. cloning, deploying, archiving, etc.)
Marshall changes across the [...]

On a regular basis I noticed that people forget to monitor the free diskspace of their VMFS volumes. I created a script that can easily be scheduled with crontab and mailed with smtp_send. You can send it as an html based email if you setup MIME correctly. (For more info on how to set this [...]

VMware just released 9 patches for ESX 3.5 and 1 for ESX 3i! You can download them here for 3.5 and here for 3i.
The patch for ESX 3i fixes the following:

ESX Server 3i hosts using more than two processor sockets cannot be licensed when using host-based licensing.
VMware Virtual Center does not properly record the number [...]