I just received the following announcement and thought it would be interesting for you as well: HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, announced today that it has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did existing investors Trident Capital [...]

Rodos just reported on twitter that it looks like Boot From SAN is supported for ESXi. Unfortunately the KB article Rodos refers to in his tweet, kb.vmware.com/kb/1015000, is incorrect and Boot From SAN is not supported for ESXi. I’ve already reported this internally and hopefully the KB article will be fixed soon. The correct statement can be found in the [...]

I’ve been working on an overhauled version of the HA Deepdive Page. I’ve been adding “basic design principles” which hopefully you find useful.Here’s an example of what they look like: Basic design principle: For iSCSI the preferred isolation response is always “Power off” to avoid a possible split brain scenario. Another bit I’ve added is the following: Please keep in [...]

I was playing around with VMware Converter and thought it would be cool to create a VMware Converter Appliance. I can’t put this up for download, yet, but I can describe how to build your own appliance. I will use Novell’s Suse Studio to create a thin Linux VM that contains only the necessary bits and pieces. Go to susestudio.com [...]

Author: Craig Risinger Craig is a Consulting Architect working for VMware PSO in the US and a fellow member of the VCDX Panel. During the VCDX panels in Las Vegas a bunch of us had a discussion around  Resource Pools and shares and this led to the following article. Thanks Craig! PS: I also wrote an article on this topic. [...]

Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools. The update only contains bug fixes but most definitely worth downloading again! Version 2.8.1 (February 2010) On vHost tab new field: number of running vCPUs On vSphere VMs in vApp where not displayed. Filter not working correct when annotations or custum fields contains null value. When NTP server(s) = [...]

VMware just released a maintenance release for VMware View 4. View Manager Version 4.0.1 | 18 February 2010 | Build: 233023 (View Manager), 210930 (View Composer) What’s New: VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. For details, see the Resolved Issues section. This release includes the following new features. Localization of [...]