A few weeks ago I had a conference call with an unknown company, well at least for me it was still unknown. Eric Chiu contacted me if he, and his team, could demonstrate their new product. HyTrust‘s product is an appliance. Not only virtual but also physical. But as a virtualization consultant of course the virtual appliance is what interested [...]
Eric Sloof(1, 2, 3) already explored the new “alarms and actions” capabilities. There’s one that really stands out in my opinion in the next release of ESX/vCenter(vSphere): Indeed, “Enter maintenance mode“. Now you might wonder when you would want to use this. Wouldn’t it be nice that when your hardware is degraded, for instance memory status changed or hardware power [...]
While most virtualization vendors are still catching up on VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware prepares for the official unveiling of the next generation of virtualization software! April 21 – 2009, mark that date! It’s the dawn of a new era! I know that it’s way over the top, but you can’t half imagine how excited I am about this upcoming [...]
Most of you hopefully read about the new queue depth throttling feature in the release notes of ESX 3.5 U4 which has been released last week. A couple of customers asked me if this would be beneficial for them to set up. Currently queue depth throttling is only supported for 3PAR Storage Arrays. This, of course, doesn’t mean that it [...]
One of colleagues emailed me this weekend that he had a problem with Thinap’ed application and AVG. My AVG updated this morning and I can confirm the issue. When you run or download an application(virtualized by Thinapp) the applications is marked as Trojan horse Constructor.DER infected. As a work around you can of course add all your applications as exceptions [...]
Mike Laspina just released a new version of his VMFS metadata backup script. William Lam, the creator of the health check report script I wrote about, helped Mike out to add a new feature “rolling backup” with folder augmented organization based on the host name, store alias, date label and the rolling instance number. This new version saves 10 versions of your metadata [...]
I’ve been extremely busy last week and totally forgot to publish this article. VMware has just release Fusion 2.0.3. You can find the release notes here. Here’s the what’s new section: Resolves an issue where driverless printing stops working for users that run Mac OS X 10.5.6, and installed Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001. The shared printers would [...]
