One of my readers just emailed me the following, again thanks for this info which might me useful to any of you guys out there playing with VCB: Today with the help of VMware Support I solved a strange problem. With all my Solaris10-32Bit VM’ s I was getting an error, when I tried to backup them via VCB. Creating [...]
Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info. In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip info etc. With BGInfo [...]
Can anyone help me out? At several blogs I’ve read that Hyper-V is available with clustering and quick migration for only a fraction of the costs compared to VMware. I was just browsing the internet and stumbled upon the following: Windows 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 with 25 CALs The System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Edition’s price is $1,290. Comprehensive solution [...]
After installing ESX 3.5 update 1 an error occurs during the boot proces: Parsing error: parse error: Error adding class VMware_IdentityMemberOfCollection to the repository: CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND: The requested object could not be found: “VMware_Identity” Compiling omc-smash-interop-schema.mof into root/PG_Interop A quick search on the VMTN forum revealed that I wasn’t the only one experiencing these problems. Luckily Mike Laspina already discovered how [...]
Scott’s post pointed me out to the follow up of the VMotion vs Quick Migration post a week ago. I’ve already blogged about the previous articles so here my thoughts on the new one. I guess the most important part of Jeff’s post is this: We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration [...]
It seems like blogging is also a trend over at Ictivity. Another colleague of mine just recently started blogging. His blog is not fully functional(RSS) but there are a couple of interesting reads over there. Rene Jorissen is one of the upcoming “Connectivity” Consultant who mainly focuses on Cisco. Check out his blog. A couple of short outtakes: Source: Our [...]
Yesterday evening I witnessed a weird phenomenon. We had to bring down a complete environment to move a 19″ rack to a different location. We switched the SAN on, waited a couple of minutes and switched the ESX hosts on. When the ESX hosts finished booting we booted the VirtualCenter. Everything looked normal in the VI Client. I had all [...]
