The last couple of weeks more blogs and topics appeared around the warning VirtualCenter gives when there’s no service console redundancy. Several people posted about a workaround to clear this warning. The workaround is very easy: temporarily assign an additional nic to the service console vSwitch and reconfigure your HA. Notice that I used ” [...]
Service Console redundancy
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 14th, 2008 | 19 comments
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Using vmpmotion.pl on Windows RCLI
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 11th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Management & Automation, Server
When using vmpmotion.pl on Windows with the RCLI installed you will need to set some extra environment variables before the script will work. First besure that the Perl filetype is correctly setup.
VCB problems with independent disks
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 11th, 2008 | 2 comments
Published in BC-DR
In my RSS reader I noticed a blog on VM/ETC about independent disks and VCB. The thing is, no snapshots are created when a disk is in independent/persistent mode. This can be a problem when you want to use VCB on all your disks. But this can also come in handy when you want to [...]
New VMware certification?
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 10th, 2008 | 4 comments
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Where’s the new VMware certification? I received an email about this “VMware Certified Design Expert” certification about two months ago? Beneath is what I received but I haven’t seen any new details since, although it clearly states “later this month”. Maybe you guys have?
A new advanced certification for design architects of enterprise deployments, VMware Certified [...]
RTFM 3i guide
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 8th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Server
For anyone interested in implementing 3i, Mike Laverick created another great pdf and again this is a must read: The RTFM 3i Guide.
VMware Stage Manager
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 8th, 2008 | 7 comments
Published in Management & Automation
VMware starts a new beta program the 21st of January, the product is called Stage Manager. Stage Manager seems to be some sort of Lab Manager spin off. But it goes way beyond what Lab Manager can do.
You can easily boot shadow production servers
Create test environments for infrastructure changes
Build complex pre-production environments
Systematically propagate complex system [...]
MCSE 2003 upgrade to MCTS on Windows Server 2008
Posted by Duncan Epping in January 7th, 2008 | 4 comments
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Just did the upgrade exam to Windows Server 2008 and passed it. It was by far the easiest exam I did over the last couple of years… 55 questions divided in three sections, mainly about IIS, Active Directory and Terminal Services. If you are an MCSE on Windows 2003 look into this exam.
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