April 17th, 2008
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A colleague(thanks Ivo) pointed me out to this great PDF by Cisco. As expected, it deals mainly about networking. Things like VST, EST, Channels, Trunking, Portfast and more are covered.
One thing that stands out the most is that Cisco recommends to use load balancing based on Virtual Port ID instead of creating an ether channel [...]
April 16th, 2008
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Just upgraded a production environment to 3.5 update 1 and 2.5 update 1. Everything went surprisingly smooth. Looking at the Update Manager I noticed the total amount of 40 patches at this moment for 3.5. If you have a closer look you will notice that a lot of those are related to specific hardware or [...]
April 16th, 2008
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Discover a New Perspective with 8.9 Inch Eee PC 900: This new generation of the ever popular PC packs in a whole range of hardware that includes a 8.9 inch widescreen, a 1.3M pixels webcam, the new innovative FingerGlide and 12GB and 20GB storage capacities for Windows and Linux platforms respectively.
Mobility is one of the [...]
April 14th, 2008
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Today a customer called about a problem with the Exchange VM. For some reason the ESX Host where this VM resided was always swapping/ballooning. They checked and double checked the settings but could not find the problem. After a quick scan I noticed that there were limits set on memory for each VM. This particular [...]
April 11th, 2008
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I just received the following:
New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2.
ESX Server patches can be accessed through the on-line ESX Server Patch Download tool:
[http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/er.aspx?s=524&lid=2272&elq=4D5713F997F04342981A231DF09609D0">]
Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patches
ESX-1003516 (Critical): fixes an issue where snapshot of a Suspended Virtual Machine fails;includes a [...]