A while back I blogged about the customization specification wizard failing when entering the password. Today I visited the same customer again. This problem only occurred when running it from the VirtualCenter itself. Today I upgraded the VirtualCenter server to 2.5 Update 1 and the problem is solved… Still don’t know why it happened,

I just encountered the same bug that Aaron Delp blogged about in January:
It appears we have found a possible bug in the Deploy from Template Command in ESX 3.5. When you create a Windows Server based template and then try to deploy directly into an Active Directory with customization, the new system will get an [...]

Monday evening a colleague changed the ip-address of three VMware ESX hosts. He followed the standard VMware procedure, which usually works like a charm. In this case after the ip-address was changed HA did not work anymore. Disabling and enabling the HA resulted in the following error: “Configuration of host IP address is inconsistent on host …”
After [...]

Breaking news:
As of the first of July I will start as a PSO Consultant at VMware! I’m very happy that VMware provided me with this opportunity. I want to thank Ictivity BV for understanding my decision and making this transition possible and easy. So the next couple of weeks I will be extremely busy finishing [...]

Check out this topic on the VMTN forum by Gabrie. It’s a good read about how many vm’s one would dare to run on an ESX host.
TexiWill:
This really depends. I know companies that are doing no more than a 10:1 or 20:1 compression, but there are other companies with 50+ VMs running on one box [...]

VMTN user “ian4563″ recently posted a thread about problems with the HA constraints. The error that was pulled from the log files:
Das admission check failed. Configured failover: 2, Expected new failover: 0
And the solution according to VMTN user “eziskind”, who also is a VMware employee:
Looks like you have some 4-cpu vms in the clusters too. [...]

I’ve been disconnected from the internet the last couple of days because of a UPC screw up. So I missed out on all the SRM blogging. I am just reading all the new blogs that were created over the last couple of days. Here are just a couple random thoughts…

The SRM docs talk about a [...]

A couple of weeks ago I contacted Rob, the man behind RVTools, and asked him if he could add an export or copy+past functionality to his amazing tool “RVTools”. This amazing tool checks the VMware tools version and gives you the option to update them all at once. Rob updated his tool today:
Version 1.1
Changes: May 10, [...]

VMware will be renamed Thinstall to Thinapp. Read it here. Besides this blog a Thinstall employee confirmed this.

Dell announced yesterday that ESXi will cost only $99. (source: virtualization.info) Citrix Xenserver will cost you $299. I’m really curious how HP, IBM and Fujitsu are going to respond to this. And what is Microsoft going to do with this very competitive pricing. Anyway, what ever happens Dell and VMware just woke everybody up and [...]