Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs”, and for [...]
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CPU/MEM Reservation Behavior
March 3rd, 2010
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Again an interesting discussion we had amongst some colleagues (Thanks Frank, Andrew and Craig! Especially Craig as most text below comes from The Resource Master). The topic was CPU/Memory reservations and more specifically the difference in behavior of these two.
One would expect that both a CPU and Memory reservation would have the same behavior when [...]
Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
January 22nd, 2010
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While doing a new install of VMware vCenter Server I ran into the following error:
Setup cannot create vCenter Server Directory Services instance. Error 28038
This error is caused by the fact that the “Network Service” does not have enough permissions on the root of the drive you’re installing vCenter on. The solution is pretty straight forward [...]
My Homelab
January 19th, 2010
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This weeks VMTN podcast is about Homelabs. John Troyer asked on twitter who had a homelab and if they already posted an article about it. Most bloggers already did but I never got to it. Weird thing is that the common theme for most virtualization bloggers seems to be physical! Take a look at what [...]
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