Kodiak 0.0.2 will be out in a few hours! I’m currently preparing my VM’s to check it out! And I will post a couple of screenshots tonight! For those that never heard of Kodiak(by Bluebear) before, read this blog entry, in short it’s a cross platform application with which you will be able to manage [...]

Here you go, the new and improved version of RVTools. A while back Rob de Veij wrote an app called RVTools, what it did basically was check the VMware Tools version and status of each VM in a datacenter and report this in a nice GUI.
Rob probably had some spare time on his hands cause [...]

As most of you know I work for VMware which means I receive a huge amount of email and documents with excellent technical info. Some I can’t blog about but some I can. Last week I received this VMware HA implementations notes document by Seva Semouchin. Seva is a Technical Account Manager based in Germany!
This [...]

I just watched the vForum keynote by Richard Garsthagen. If you haven’t seen it be sure to check it out cause Richard put a great presentation together which outlines the current and future products of VMware. I’m not gonna repost his video. Just click on the link below.
Hi Everyone,
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while, [...]

VMware just released a rollup bundle for 3.0.2. So those still on 3.0.2 and looking for a quick way to get up to the latest patch level take a look at this KB article and download the patch here.
Roll‐ups provide you with a convenient way to download and install multiple bundles at one time. Installing [...]

I just received a great PDF on memory statistic defintions for VirtualCenter:
It is important to note that some definitions refer to guest physical memory while others talk about machine memory. “Guest physical memory” is really virtual-hardware “physical” memory presented to the VM. “Machine memory” is the actual physical RAM in the ESX host. Each definition below will explicitly [...]

There seems to be an incorrect advanced option in VC U3.
HA network compliance check
During the configuration of HA in VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2, the Task & Events tabs might display the following error message and recommendation:
HA agent on <esxhostname> in cluster <clustername> in <datacenter> has an error Incompatible HA Network:
Consider using the Advanced Cluster Settings [...]

A while back I wrote down all the HA advanced options. With VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 3(and the ESX patch that came with it) VMware added another extra advanced options, this is the complete list:

das.failuredetectiontime - Amount of milliseconds, timeout time for isolation response action(with a default of 15000 milliseconds).
das.isolationaddress[x] - IP adres the ESX hosts [...]