I was playing around with vSphere ESXi 4.0 and the Update Manager. As Jason Boche already reported several patches have been released and I wanted to test Update Manager. After downloading all the patches I noticed that there was a patch regarding the Cisco Nexus 1000v. Although I did not have the 1000v installed Update Manager did want to install [...]

Although the VMware download section has not been updated VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 has been officially released. Click on VMware Data Recovery 1.0 in the download section and you will be presented with the following: Latest Released Version: 1.0.1 | 07/09/09 | 176771 You can find the release notes here. I want to highlight the following resolved issue as it [...]

VMware vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5 – includes Converter Enterprise Latest Version: 2.5 Update 5 | 2009/07/10 Download | Release Notes The list of resolved issues is quite short this time. But a really important issue has been resolved and that’s why I recommend everyone who’s still running vCenter 2.5 to look in to this upgrade! Support for High Consolidation in [...]

I just received an email from one one of my readers, Mike Laskowski, he wanted to share the following with us: I have over 100+ LUN’s in my environment. Round Robin is officially supported on ESX4. In the past we had a script that would manually load balance the LUN’s across FAs. ESX4 has a different way to balance the [...]

I’m proud to announce that the session is locked and speakers are confirmed.  Rick Scherer, Tom Howarth, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac and myself will be running an Ask the Experts panel session at VMworld 2009 – and this is your chance to submit a question to be reviewed during the panel session! Simply fill out the form below and your [...]

People have been speculating about it for a while. Just when everyone thought it would not happen anymore Google announced the Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in [...]

I tweeted it yesterday and several bloggers already picked up. I wasn’t able to blog it cause I was at a customer site but still want to make sure the word is out. If you are a Virtual Iron customer and don’t want to get stuck on a dead end road this might be the perfect opportunity to make a [...]