I was just reading up on VMTN and noticed this great topic. For some reason there are a lot of people that don’t see the difference between HA and SRM. I suggest reading the full topic and especially Jay Judkowitz’s replies and Smoggy’s reply, both are Subject Matter Experts on SRM and explained the topic starter what the differences are [...]

Every year Eric Sloof of NTPro.nl does a serieus of great video blogs on VMworld. It seems that this year Eric will not be the only blogger walking around with a camcorder. Viktor, or should I say vIktor, just broke the news. He received a cool gift from VMware… Flip Video! And it seems like most bloggers will receive one. [...]

During several projects I noticed that for some reason the vCenter service would not start correctly. After a quick browse in “services.msc” and the eventlog I noticed that the vCenter service started before the SQL service. As you can imagine vCenter needs SQL to be up and running before it can actually start. I fixed it by creating a dependency. [...]

One of my colleagues is deploying an enormous VI3 environment. The customer wanted to have 1 central management console for all ESX hosts of which most hosts are located in a satellite offices. (One central management system for more than 200 hosts remote) With a 1Gb or more link this shouldn’t be a problem, but this customer had 64Kb links [...]

I was just checking my statistics for January and it’s gone up again and looking at february I will hit a major milestone possibly. Here are the stats for January 2009: Daily Avg unique visits: 3103 Daily hits: 33.364 Monthly Total unique visits: 96.216 Monthy Total hits: 1.034.297 And so far this month I’ve already had 37.214 unique visits, with [...]

Okay, the dates and time have been set for the Meet the VMTN Experts session. We are still looking for an official name for the session but just write down these dates and times and be sure to be there: Tuesday 24th – 13.00 – 14.00 Wednesday 25th – 13.00 – 14.00 Location: Community Lounge on the solution exchange Who [...]

I really love the discussions going on in some of the blog postings. And some posts even trigger other bloggers to respond. Frank Denneman commented on my “Balancing LUN paths with Powershell” post and explained in short why load balancing your LUNs on some Active/Active SANs might not always lead to a performance increase. It even can lead to a [...]