If you’re seeking answers for your most difficult VMware related questions, you really should pay a visit to this year’s VMware community lounge. The following experts are at your service: Gabrie van Zanten, – Owner of gabesvirtualworld Jason Boche, – VMTN Moderator, Minneapolis Area VMUG president, and owner of Boche.net Alan Renouf, – Owner of Virtu-Al, Powershell Enthusiast Steve Beaver, [...]

I’ve been looking into creating JeOS VM’s. JeOS stands for “Just enough Operating System“. In short: a purpose build OS that only contains the bare minimum that one needs to run. In a virtual world, where footprint matters, it can be really beneficial to use JeOS vm’s. Although JeOS sounds great one of the problems used to be creating JeOS [...]

I just got off the phone with a former colleague. He was implementing SRM at a customer site and couldn’t get it working correctly because the VMFS volumes weren’t discovered at the recovery site. As most of you know sometimes you need to rescan your HBA’s twice before the LUNs and orVMFS volumes are discovered. When using SRM the rescan [...]

I already predicted that this was bound to happen sooner or later. It only took William Lam, aka lamw, a couple of days to enhance the work that Joseph Holland did. Joseph wrote a procedure that let’s APC’s software initiate a shutdown of the VM’s and ESXi host when a power failure occurs. Joseph’s solution included a modification of ESXi [...]

I’ve seen a lot of cool teaser/ preview movies over the years. Especially Eric Sloof has a great reputation with teaser movies for VMworld and short video interviews. But this year Eric will have a lot of competition cause VMware gave the bloggers attending VMworld a nice gift, The Flip. Gabe, of Gabes Virtual World, just posted an awesome teaser [...]

I have been requested by several people to do an update of my original Service Console Redundancy article. Although personally, I am still of the opinion that the three options stated in the article are still valid I have rewritten them and dropped one option, as now a days the majority of companies now have a decent infrastructure with vlan’s.

Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support: In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of ESXi, including ESXi free. [...]