Kelly Olivier had a good question on the VMTN Communities. How can I check from the Service Console which network load balancing I’m using? Of course his first bet was “vmware-vim-vmd” but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to show which load balancing policy is being used. As far as I know there’s another way to show this: [...]

Some vendors license their application per processor, also in a virtualized environment. So if your VM has 4 vCPU’s your vendor will want you to buy a 4 processor license for the application. But you can avoid this by telling the VM that it has cores instead of processors. In others words, instead of having 4 processors you would have [...]

My efforts to ThinApp Inkscape weren’t immediately successful. I did a standard capture and ran the resulting binary successfully, but most of the icons were missing. It should look like this: But it actually looked like this: I had to slightly adjust the ThinApp package to get it to run properly. To ThinApp Inkscape: Start Setup capture as normal Do [...]

Whilst we are still in the early stages of our VDI deployment, I’m still trying to exercise some control over the rampant randomisation of our application set. One such ad hoc installation is the ten or so users in the company who have bought and installed copies of Adobe Illustrator. A new Polish employee asked her manager for Illustrator, because [...]

We(VMware PSO) had a discussion yesterday on the fact whether it’s supported to have MSCS(Microsoft Clustering Services) VM’s in a HA/DRS cluster with both HA and DRS set to disable. I know many people struggle with this because it doesn’t make sense in a way. In short: No, this is not supported. MSCS VM’s can’t be part of a VMware [...]

VMworld 2009 – August 31 -Sept 3. | The Moscone Center, San Francisco I opened up tweetdeck this morning and noticed that some of the first VMworld 2009 sessions have been approved and unofficially announced. I was really surprised to find an email this morning that my session had been approved, I totally forgot about the fact that Rick(VMwaretips.com) submitted [...]

I’m an outspoken person as most of you noticed by now, but I’m also open for discussion and that’s why I particularly like blogging. Every now and then a good discussion starts based on one of my blog articles. (Or a blog article of any of the bloggers for that matter.) These usually start in the form of a comment [...]