Mike Laverick just posted an article about music and that triggered this one. I already did a couple of posts with youtube clips so let’s continue the tradition. Unfortunately I could not find the official videos of the latter two… but who cares anyway. Editors – Papillon Probably one of the best concerts I’ve seen over the last couple of [...]

Since vSphere has been introduced more and more of my customers are migrating to ESXi. It makes sense as the thin hypervisor is the way of the future according to VMware. One common used argument by the admins to not use ESXi is killing a rogue VM. Normally an SSH session would be opened to the Service Console and with [...]

I wrote this article after the KB was release but forgot to click “publish”. Those planning to upgrade their vSphere environment to Update 1 please read the following: KB Article 1016070 Issue Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 U1 fails or times out and rebooting the host results in a purple diagnostic screen Who is affected Customers using VMware vSphere 4 [...]

VMware just published two whitepapers. I hadn’t noticed them yet and especially the second one is a very good read! VMCI Socket Performance The VMCI (Virtual Machine Communication Interface) device allows fast, efficient communication between virtual machines running on the same host, without using the guest networking stack. This paper presents VM-VM performance results using VMCI Sockets and compares these [...]

Today I read something I have not seen anywhere else before. I have always been under the impression that the memory reserved for the Service Console was increased from 272MB to 300MB. Although the bare minimum is indeed 300MB there’s another side to this story, something I did not expect but actually does make sense. As of ESX 4.0 the [...]

It took us longer than expected, my apologies for that, but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is finally available! Time lines got extended as we decided to go with Booksurge instead of Lulu. Booksurge is an Amazon company which means Amazon sells it as of today. So what is the vSphere Quick Start Guide? 256 Pages of tips and [...]

vMA 4.0 Patch 2 has just officially been released. This release contains multiple bugfixes and security patches. Make sure to install the patch. KB article 1014689 describes how to do the upgrade from within the appliance.