I’m an outspoken person as most of you noticed by now, but I’m also open for discussion and that’s why I particularly like blogging. Every now and then a good discussion starts based on one of my blog articles. (Or a blog article of any of the bloggers for that matter.) These usually start in the form of a comment [...]

I just noticed that vSphere has been added to the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program: source Products that have passed the SVVP requirements for Windows Server 2008 R2 are considered supported on Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000 Server SP4 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 and later Service Packs, both x86 32-bit, and x64 64-bit. Might come in handy when you [...]

As I wrote a while ago when you enable virtualized MMU for your virtual machine it enables Large Pages and Large Pages don’t get “TPS’ed”. The article I wrote was specifically related to AMD cause it was the only platform at the moment for which enhanced memory techniques where used. (AMD RVI!) As of vSphere 4.0 Intel EPT is also [...]

A while back I published an article on partitioning your ESX host. This was based on 3.5, and of course with vSphere this has slightly changed. Let me start by quoting a section from the install and configure guide. You cannot define the sizes of the /boot, vmkcore, and /vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. [...]

As of VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 2 the HA default isolation response changed from “Power Off” to “Leave powered on”. A lot of people liked this new default setting because it would lower the chances of downtime due to a “false positive”. I’ve never been a fan though, I just don’t like using degraded hardware or a degraded ESX host [...]

When ESX 3.0 was released people were excited about it but it can’t be compared to the buzz that has been created around vSphere. It’s all over the blogosphere, I think every single blog out there published articles  about vSphere weeks even months before it was released . Now the time has finally come, it’s available! Go to the download [...]

You know it will not take long when KB articles start popping up: vSphere Client overview performance charts might not appear for ESX hosts prior to ESX 4.0 (1010568)        KB Article vSphere environment that contains hosts running ESX 3.x earlier, some of the overview performance charts do not display data after you install or upgrade to vCenter Server 4.0. [...]