Today I witnessed something weird. For reason VirtualCenter was totally lost. There were 3 ESX 3.5 hosts in a cluster. One of them failed and it seemed that all the vm’s failed over to the other two. This could be confirmed in VirtualCenter cause all VM’s were registered on either the first or the second […]

I’ve been disconnected from the internet the last couple of days because of a UPC screw up. So I missed out on all the SRM blogging. I am just reading all the new blogs that were created over the last couple of days. Here are just a couple random thoughts…

The SRM docs talk about a […]

A couple of weeks ago I contacted Rob, the man behind RVTools, and asked him if he could add an export or copy+past functionality to his amazing tool “RVTools”. This amazing tool checks the VMware tools version and gives you the option to update them all at once. Rob updated his tool today:
Version 1.1
Changes: May 10, […]

VMware will be renamed Thinstall to Thinapp. Read it here. Besides this blog a Thinstall employee confirmed this.

Dell announced yesterday that ESXi will cost only $99. (source: virtualization.info) Citrix Xenserver will cost you $299. I’m really curious how HP, IBM and Fujitsu are going to respond to this. And what is Microsoft going to do with this very competitive pricing. Anyway, what ever happens Dell and VMware just woke everybody up and […]

My colleague Rene Jorissen just posted a config example for a port-channel and trunk configuration for VMware. So for those interested in networking check it out.

Registration is open. So be sure to attend and sign in asap! Early birds(till the 11th of July) pay $1,495, after the 11th the price will be $1,745. VMworld officially kicks off on Monday, September 15 with an evening Welcome Reception in the Solutions Exchange. You can attend hands-on labs during the day on Monday, […]

VMware just released a whole bunch of patches. Check it:

New patches are available for ESX Server 3.5/3i.
Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.5 Patch Download Page
ESX350-200804401-BG (Critical): Prevent DHCP from resetting the IP address and netmask when trying to acquire or renew a lease. Change the default multipath policy […]

One of my readers just emailed me the following, again thanks for this info which might me useful to any of you guys out there playing with VCB:
Today with the help of VMware Support I solved a strange problem.
With all my Solaris10-32Bit VM’ s I was getting an error, when I tried to backup them […]

Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is  a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info.
In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip […]