While doing a new install of VMware vCenter Server I ran into the following error: Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038 This error is caused by the fact that the “Network Service” does not have enough permissions on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on. The solution is pretty straight forward and has been [...]
It’s time to update your bookmarks and/or RSS reader. Steve Jin, author of the book “VMware VI and vSphere SDK” and creator of the vSphere Java API, recently started blogging. His blog is called DoubleCloud and I highly recommend following Steve’s writings as he is one smart cookie. Frank Denneman moved to a new home yesterday, well a new location [...]
The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 79 was all about homelabs. You can download the MP3 here, subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here, or listen in live here every wednesday. As always I tried to capture most links that have been posted. The link by the way also contains a summary of what has been discussed. Have fun: Simon S. – VMware [...]
Just noticed this press release from Hyper9. Congrats on making this list… AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 20, 2010 – Despite a tough economy and increased competition in the virtualization market, Hyper9, Inc. today announced the close of a banner year in 2009, capped off by a fourth quarter that was the company’s strongest quarter to-date. Demonstrating positive momentum across all [...]
A week ago a colleague contacted me about the fact that he had issues with load balancing on “Virtual Port ID”. Only a single NIC was utilized while running over 10 VMs on a single host. When changing the order of the NICs the traffic would flip over but again no load balancing. I remembered a KB article from months [...]
This weeks VMTN podcast is about Homelabs. John Troyer asked on twitter who had a homelab and if they already posted an article about it. Most bloggers already did but I never got to it. Weird thing is that the common theme for most virtualization bloggers seems to be physical! Take a look at what some of these guys have [...]
Eric Siebert just published the results of the Top-25 bloggers poll. Over 700 people voted and several bloggers entered the top-25 like Frank Denneman and Alan Renouf. I would like to thank everyone for voting on me. It’s a true honor to be part of a list like the following, let alone being voted as the number one virtualization blogger… [...]
