When installing vCenter 4.1 on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit one of my colleagues ran into the following error message: This product can only be installed on the following 64-bit operating systems: Windows XP SP2 or above Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Although this message is actually correct it was not what was causing this problem as he followed the documentation and [...]
When I was installing vSphere 4.1 ESXi I ran into a problem. I received the following error when I added the ESXi host to my cluster: Call “Datacenter.QueryConnectionInfo” for object “yellow bricks” on vCenter Server “W2K8-001″ failed. Although the error didn’t make much sense I had the feeling it had something to do with name resolution(This KB article gave a [...]
Just received an update on the Kodiak project Bluebear has been working on for a while now. For those who are not familiar with Kodiak, it is a cross platform virtualization management application. Kodiak is based on flex and had a great start. Unfortunately as time passed by it went completely silent around Kodiak and I just received the news [...]
A couple of months ago I blogged about the draft version of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Yesterday VMware published the first official version. Keep in mind that any feedback is still highly appreciated and the document is still subject to change. source article This document is the official release of the vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide. This version is [...]
Almost a year ago one of my colleagues told me about a project he was working on called the “vSphere Resource Kit“. I guess it reminds many of you of the Resource Kits that were released for the Microsoft products. I guess the idea is quite similar. On twitter several people asked who the authors were and many said they were “unknown” [...]
One of my former colleagues(who wants to remain anonymous) notified me about this. Although many of you might not even be doing this, for just the few who are it is useful to know this caveat. For security reasons some customers have the requirement to insert specific account information for every user. It appears that when you modify the details for [...]
Every once in a while you would want to stress a VM or multiple VMs to test the working of for instance VMware DRS. There are multiple tools available but most of them only focus on CPU and are usually not multithreaded. My colleague Andres Mitchell developed a cool tool which will load a multithreaded CPU load and will generate [...]
