VMware seems to have ditched the product name “3i” and silently introduced “ESXi”. I noticed it when the download page was updated today. But you can also read it on the “product section” of the VMware website. I think this is a better name instead of differentiation in versions, keeping the versions alligned and changing […]

I just completed TrainSignal’s VMware ESX CBT(computer based training). Some of you might wonder why the hell I would be checking this course. Well TrainSignal asked me to review their product and share my findings with you guys.
TrainSignal released this VMware ESX CBT. For those of you who never watched a CBT, it’s a video […]

There are new iso’s / builds coming up for 3i, 3.5 and VirtualCenter:
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1
Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82663
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1
Latest Version: 2.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 79820
VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 1
Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82664
Unfortunately the iso’s aren’t available for download yet […]

Eric Sloof just confirmed my scoop in January with additional info on the certification:
The VMware Certified Design Engineer certification will be available later this year. The certification involved taking several courses and exams, including:

Courses
Install and Configure
DSA
Design course (currently under development)
Exam
VCP on VI3
Enterprise Exam (currently in private beta)
Design Exam (currently under development)

Once all of this has […]

Rob de Veij created a cool tool for checking the status of VMware Tools and easily upgrading to the latest version of the tools by just selecting the appropriate VM.
RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display the version of the installed VMware tools.It […]

When updating VMware Tools the setup constantly bailed out without a decent error. So I decided to un-install the Tools and install them again. Un-installing went smooth but when installing it again I ended up with the error “internal error 2203″. After googling this error the Citrix website gave me the solution, check your tmp […]

Just stumbled upon this cool article about mounting your VI inventory as a drive via Powershell:
source - Hal Rottenberg aka halr9000:

Establish a connection to your the server using the Get-VIServer command:
Get-VIServer -Server

for example,
Get-VIServer -Server 192.168.10.10

When prompted, provide the administrator’s username and password to authenticate access on the server.
Get the root folder […]

I was just pointed out to a blog about Hyper-V and linux guest compatibility.
source
Wednesday, Microsoft said Hyper-V beta for Windows Server 2008 is feature complete. Included in the list of operating systems supported are Windows Server 2003 SP2, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, Windows Vista SP1 (x86), and Windows XP SP3 (x86). See […]

It took me a while before I got used to the new layout of the VMware website, especially the forums and blogs… But the new download section is definitely an improvement. Just tick the patches you need and click download. A “download manager java applet” will be launched which will download the patches into the […]

I blogged about this yesterday, and a couple of hours later several articles on this topic popped up on the VMware website. Read them, and be prepared for another round of Citrix/MS blogs trying to discredit this feature. In my opinion it’s simple any feature that lets me virtualize more users / servers on the […]