There’s been so many discussions on whether to virtualize Citrix Servers or not I can hardly keep track. But today I was pointed out to a discussion on the VMTN forum. Especially Jason Boche’s contribution to this thread is very valuable and makes sense on why you actually should virtualize your Citrix environment. Jason discovered [...]

For those who attended the VMworld, the sessions are online! Mostly .ppt files so start reading…

At the VMworld I had the opportunity to talk with the Lefthand guys about their products. I hardly see these products in the Netherlands but read some great reviews about their products. One of their products that really caught my attention was and is their Virtual San Appliance or VSA in short. I received a [...]

Today I received the following error at a customer site when applying patch via the Update Manager:”Metadata for patch missing.” After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter wasn’t running on port 80 but on 81 for some reason. Opening up the ESX Firewall and restarting the VMware Update Manager service seems to fix this problem. [...]

Because there’s a new blogger in town: http://www.digipulse.nl/ Edwin Houben is a Consultant SBC/Microsoft working for Ictivity, that’s right a colleague of mine. Add his blog to your bookmarks or RSS Reader!

For those who encountered the same weird networking problems as I did, I was just browsing through the Knowledge Base articles for the patches released yesterday and found out that they fixed the driver for the Intel quad-port nic. When using VST half of the packets were dropped, for more info on the problem check [...]

I was just testing the new patches on a couple of servers when I noticed that when I pressed “remediate” the first patch(ESX350-200802403-BG) was installed without the ESX host going into maintenance mode. When the second patch(ESX350-200802409-BG) was installed the server went into maintenance mode. According to the VUM Documentation(vi3_vum_10_admin_guide.pdf) the server should always go [...]

On the Storage Nuts & Bolts Blog on the NetApp website there’s a sneakpreview on the Snapshot Manager for VI3 by NetApp. Here a couple of outtakes from the original article. Be sure to check the original article because there are also a couple of screenshots in there.
Although from the sound of it, it appears [...]

VMware just uploaded a whole bunch of patches for ESX 3.5:
ESX350-200802301-BG : Update to the bnx2 Driver
ESX350-200802303-SG : Security Update to the util-linux Package
ESX350-200802304-SG : Security Update to the Perl Package
ESX350-200802305-SG : Security Update to the openssl Package
ESX350-200802306-BG : VMware ESX Server 3.5, Patch ESX350-200802306-BG: Daylight Saving Time Update
ESX350-200802401-BG : Updates to vmware-hostd
ESX350-200802403-BG : Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for [...]

Eric Sloof just pointed us out to the Blog on the VMware website about the upcoming Powershell Toolkit Beta. I have been playing around with this toolkit for a while but had a hard time figuring out how to actually make useful scripts. The PDF that was also released has some cool examples of useful [...]