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This KB article has just been published:

Virtual Machines may unexpectedly reboot after a VMotion migration to an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host OR after a Power On operation on an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host, when VMware HA feature with Virtual Machine Monitoring is active.

There’s a work around for the problem but I will not be posting them here cause they might change somewhere in time. Just read the KB article for more info on how to fix this issue.

A lot of people had been waiting for this day. The Dutch VMUG Event, 12 December 2008! Over 500 people showed up, which is a great turn-up for such a small country. Not only was the place packed, the event was well organized. I want to thank the organization for all the hard work they’ve put into this event.

VMug is all about the Users and sharing knowledge so let’s talk about the sessions:

Viktor van den Berg kicked off welcoming everyone. Unfortunately I had to miss out on most of his presentation cause I needed to help out getting the VMware Demo Kit running. Richard Garsthagen was invited as the keynote speaker. Many of you know Richard of Run-Virtual.com but he is actually the guy with the coolest job title within VMware: Senior Evangelist. Richard talked about the future direction: Cloud Computing, vApp, VMsafe and more. He’s famous for his enthusiastic presentations and I think everyone will agree with me on this one. [ Read more → ]

VMware should publish more blogs like this one on Beacon Probing:

Beaconing is a software solution for detecting link failures downstream from the physical switch.ESX provides a simple and elegant teaming solution. All uplinks connected to a vswitch are assumed to connect to the same physical network (same broadcast domain) so they are all equivalent. Users can configure a list of active and standby uplinks for traffic to go out of the ESX host. If a link fails, the adapter driver detects it and marks the uplink as failed and stops using this uplink. Existing traffic will fail over to a standby uplink or redistributed to the remaining team members.

Read the full article here…

I’ve been thinking for a while about this. How can I zero-out all my vm’s with just one schedule. I don’t want to manually add a schedule every single time I roll out a VM, I want a central point for administering this.

Today I noticed the blog on using the VIX API. The VIX API can be used for all sorts of things, including copying files to all your VM’s or installing MSI on your VM’s. (Check the blog article for a complete list of supported operations for the VMRUN command.)

If you can install MSI’s then you can also run a simple vbs script:

vmrun -T virtualcenter01 -h https://virtualcenter01.yellow-bricks.local/sdk -u root -p yell0wbricks -gu user -gp userpw runProgramInGuest "[storage1] Windows/Windows.vmx” c:\windows\system32\sdelfrag.vbs

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it myself, but it should work just fine. If anyone is able to test it please let me know.

Thanks Carter!

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I’ve spend a lot of time in the past trying to understand the settings for EnableResignature and DisallowSnapshotLUN. It had me confused and dazzled a couple of times. Every now and then I still seem to have trouble to actually understand these settings, after a quick scan through the VCDX Enterprise Study Guide by Peter I decided to write this post and I took the time to get to the bottom of it. I needed this settled once and for all, especially now I start to focus more on BC/DR. [ Read more → ]