I was just figuring something out from the command line on an ESXi 4.0 host. I needed to mount a partition but a regular “mount” did not work so it took me a couple of seconds to realize why. The solution was simple and similar to the regular mount command: /usr/bin/busybox mount also might come in handy: /usr/bin/busybox fdisk -l [...]

Herco van Brug wrote a great article on how to build a solid VDI/View Windows XP Template. Herco recently designed and implemented a large View environment and this article is the outcome. I only quoted the first paragraph as the article is subject to change. Please visit the source article for the full details, it is worth reading! A basic [...]

I receive this great newsletter via email every week from Michael White, he’s one of our Specialist SE’s. Michael created a great VMware SRM document and this FAQ is part of it. I want to thank Michael for sharing it with the rest of the world. Generic I want to install SRM, what do I need to do? It is [...]

As some of you, and I hope all of you, have noticed by now when you create / expand / extent / delete a datastore a rescan of your HBAs will automatically be initiated. This however can lead to a “rescan storm” when you are building a new environment. You can imagine that it’s pointless to rescan your HBA 25 [...]

This week both NetApp and EMC released updated versions of documents I highly recommend to everyone interested in virtualization! Now some might think why would I want to read a NetApp document when we are an EMC shop.! Or why would I want to read an EMC document when my environment is hosted on a NetApp FAS3050. The answer is [...]

I received this how to in my email a couple of days ago from colleague Daniel Langenhan. Daniel was so kind to let my share this with you. If you are looking into installing vCenter on Windows 2008 with an Oracle database this might come in handy: Download 32bit Oracle client (even on a 64 bit system). Oracle 9i is [...]

We are proud to officially announce the VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts Panel Session.  This session will feature virtualization experts Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac and Tom Howarth answering your questions on virtual infrastructure design.  In the next week or so we will be posting sections on our blog sites for you to submit questions for [...]