I saw a couple of questions on the VMTN Communities around running Windows 8 Dev Preview on ESXi 5.0 and support and the fact that it doesn’t work. Although the OS is listed in the dropdown list after you have created a VM it does not mean it is supported. Support for Operating Systems should always be validated through the [...]

<edit>KB article has been published, including the video I shot</edit> How do you setup multi-NIC vMotion? I had this question 3 times in the past couple of days during workshops so I figured it was worth explaining how to do this. It is fairly straight forward to be honest and it is more or less similar to how you would [...]

While playing around with vSphere 5.0 in my home lab I discovered something with regards to Host Profiles. I installed a host and created a Host Profile from that host. When I installed a new host and linked the host profile the following error would be returned (also see screenshot below) that the host was noncompliant: Specification state absent from [...]

Just like the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with stateless ESXi. I’ve downloaded multiple ESXi bundles / depots and remembered that there was an easier way of creating an Image Profile.  The image profiles are also available as part of an online depot at vmware.com. So I figured I would start using that one instead of downloading [...]

Want to win a free vSphere 5.0 Clustering Tech Deepdive book? Check out Frank’s article today… If you follow me on twitter you might have seen my tweets I’m in Copenhagen for the last two weeks. Many followers asked me what I was doing there and were speculating it had something to do with VMworld. Even when replying I was [...]

The first patch for ESXi has been released so I figured this was a great time to create and article around how to patch your Image Profile with a new update. The process is fairly straight forward as in this case you will need to create a new image-profile (described here) and link it to a new rule (New-DeployRule and [...]

Top 10 books sold at the VMworld Bookstore. First of all congrats to everyone who made the top-10! I guess you can say we are really happy with this result especially because we don’t have a huge publisher helping with advertizement/distribution. Go Self-Publishing! Go DIY! vSphere 5 Clustering Tech Deepdive (Self Publishing) Admin VMware SRM Pre-­Publishing (VMware Press) VMware vSphere [...]