I still receive a lot of beta invitation requests while it has been really quiet around Bluebear Kodiak over the last couple of months. (I did a (p)review a while back) I just received an email that a brand new version of the Kodiak beta is about to be released. I already received the Air file but haven’t been able [...]

I already blogged about this awesome healthcheck script by William Lam a couple of times and it just has been updated to version 1.0. The following details have been added to the already extensive list: New New licensing format/summary New EVC Enabled information New Cluster VM monitoring New Cluster Host monitoring New # of VMotions within a cluster New Datastore [...]

I received this one via E-Mail… the vSphere Launch Screensaver. Pick it up here. It’s only 2MB by the way, and it’s pretty much similar to the flash movie on the announcement website.

There’s hardly any point in covering the announcements of today. There are so many people blogging right now that no one will have the chance to keep up with reading. That’s why I decided not to write or copy any of the announcements. Of course I just might give my thoughts on the webcast this evening but that’s probably it… [...]

What more can I say than W O W: Source (for full aricle) SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, [...]

I was playing around with vSphere this weekend while replying to topics on the VMTN Community. One of the things often asked is storage reporting… (Snapshot info / Disk utilization etc) With ESX 3.5 / vCenter 2.5 it needs to be scripted and can be integrated into vCenter by using custom fields, but as you can imagine not everyone would [...]

When doing a failover with SRM your VMFS Datastores get labeled with a “snap-xxxxxxx-name” because they’ve been resignatured. Mike Laverick gave this tip on the VMTN forum which enables you to automatically rename your datastores to it’s original name again: Edit the vmware-dr.xml file in the C:\Program Files\Site Recovery Manager\Config directory and look for a line that reads: <fixRecoveredDatastoreNames>false</fixRecoveredDatastoreNames> Change [...]