Today I was testing a scripted installation for a customer. All day long I had weird problems with the script. But whenever I reviewed my script their seemed to be nothing wrong with it. I wrote the scripts with Notepad++ and double checked them with vi and nano. You can imagine I almost threw my […]

I received an email stating the following:
Microsoft Cluster Server is supported with VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1. Support is similar to ESX 3.0.1 with the following additions:

Both 64 bit and 32 bit Windows 2003 guests are supported with MSCS.
Boot from SAN for VMs using MSCS is now supported.
Majority Node Set clusters with application-level replication […]

Ernst, a regular poster of the Dutch VMug, posted a script for load balancing paths to an active/active SAN. What it does is select the next path for a LUN, in other words if there are four paths LUN1 will be reached via Path1, LUN2 via Path2 etc.
The script, also available for download here:
for PATHS […]

Today I noticed the following error at a customer site when I wanted to install the new patch bundle, ”Metadata for patch missing”. After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter was installed with a different http port number. For VMware Update Manager to work you will have to open up the firewall manually:
 esxcfg-firewall -o 81,tcp,out,UpdateManager
(Change the port number, in […]

VMware seems to have ditched the product name “3i” and silently introduced “ESXi”. I noticed it when the download page was updated today. But you can also read it on the “product section” of the VMware website. I think this is a better name instead of differentiation in versions, keeping the versions alligned and changing […]

There are new iso’s / builds coming up for 3i, 3.5 and VirtualCenter:
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1
Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82663
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1
Latest Version: 2.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 79820
VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 1
Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82664
Unfortunately the iso’s aren’t available for download yet […]

Rob de Veij created a cool tool for checking the status of VMware Tools and easily upgrading to the latest version of the tools by just selecting the appropriate VM.
RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display the version of the installed VMware tools.It […]

When updating VMware Tools the setup constantly bailed out without a decent error. So I decided to un-install the Tools and install them again. Un-installing went smooth but when installing it again I ended up with the error “internal error 2203″. After googling this error the Citrix website gave me the solution, check your tmp […]

Just stumbled upon this cool article about mounting your VI inventory as a drive via Powershell:
source - Hal Rottenberg aka halr9000:

Establish a connection to your the server using the Get-VIServer command:
Get-VIServer -Server

for example,
Get-VIServer -Server 192.168.10.10

When prompted, provide the administrator’s username and password to authenticate access on the server.
Get the root folder […]

It took me a while before I got used to the new layout of the VMware website, especially the forums and blogs… But the new download section is definitely an improvement. Just tick the patches you need and click download. A “download manager java applet” will be launched which will download the patches into the […]