I was looking for a new wallpaper for my laptop as the old ones started to bore me. Coincidentally I ran into Sander Ras this week. Sander designed the Yellow Bricks logo almost two years ago, and I asked him if he could create a wallpaper for me based on this logo. This is what he emailed me and I [...]
On twitter @lamw just asked a question which triggered me to blog it cause I expect this is something more people will run into sooner or later. Anyone know if you can change the default VMFS block size in ESX4 during interactive installation? This is something that I also ran into personally a couple of weeks ago. If you install [...]
Just released, a brand new version of RVTools: Latest Version: 2.5.5 | June 27, 2009 Download | Documentation Release notes: Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009) Changed health check properties are not set at start of the program. The program will use the default values until you start and transmit the properties screen. This problem is now fixed. Since version 2.5 the vDisk [...]
One of the blogs I’ve always enjoyed reading is ICT-Freak.nl. ICT-Freak is maintained by Arne Fokkema. Unfortunately Arne used to mix Dutch and English posts which means his blog is not aggregated on Planet V12n. This is why I wanted to point you out to the following awesome article: With the release of vSphere VMware introduced a new hardware level [...]
For all the developers out there, I just received the following from my colleague Steve Jin: VI (VSphere) Java API 2.0 was GAed last night. The 2.0 release represents 6 months of continuous (after work) engineering effort since this January. It has packed many features: New high performance web service engine. When I told people that we replaced AXIS, most [...]
About a year ago I wrote about a script that would load balance your Active/Active SAN by evenly dividing LUNs on all available paths. A week ago I provided Kees van Vloten with this script so that it could be incorporated into a scripted install solution. Kees has enhanced the script and emailed it so that I could share it [...]
There’s a brand new version of VMware Studio coming up. For those who aren’t familiar with VMware Studio it basically comes down to this: with VMware Studio you can create your own virtual appliances. Or as VMware puts it: VMware Studio provides mechanisms for authoring, on-site management, distributing and deployment of production-ready virtual appliances. ISVs, hardware appliance vendors, and developers [...]
