VMware just released a new KB article. The article is on VMware HA and the log files it can possibly generate when restarting of a VM occurs. The article contains an extensive description of the sympoms but the most important one is this one: For any virtual machine that VMware HA is wrongly trying to start, it also generates thousands [...]

I just noticed this new KB article: Diskeeper is a 3rd party defragmentation product that has the ability to defragment unmounted NTFS volumes that are presented to the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy. This means that it can defragment RDM LUNs. Unfortunately, this creates the possibility of inconsistencies in the file system if there is a virtual machine running on that [...]

During VMworld I quickly wrote down the steps that VMware vCenter Data Recovery takes when backing up VMs. I added one step which isn’t unimportant, changed block tracking(4): Create a snapshot of disk(s) Hot add disk(s) to Data Recovery appliance Create hashes of (hopefully variable) blocks Read data of changed blocks if previous backup exists Dedupe(using variable chunk sizes) and [...]

I’ve been using the VMware View Open Client for a while now. One of the things that the VMware View Open Client is still lacking is USB redirection. I just received a cool workaround for this “problem” from Attila Bognár. In short: VMware View Open Client calls rdesktop, if you add a script with the name rdesktop to your path [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 came to an end on Thursday. I finally traveled back on Friday, after a 5 hour delay. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to write any technical content but you can’t imagine how busy I’ve been. I’ve gathered all useful links and added them to this post. But just to give you an idea what I was [...]

Because I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked I created this link list. I didn’t include all VMworld articles, just the ones I think are worth reading. I want to highlight these 4 blogs cause they covered VMworld by far the best in my opinion and deserve some more exposure. Martijn, Simon and Jason [...]