December 8, 2009 1:51 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
ESX Host,
Host Update Ulitily,
Maintenance Mode,
update fails,
vsphere,
vSphere 4 Update 1Okay so vSphere 4 Update one was released late last month, and some people went ahead and downloaded the ISO not knowing that vSphere Host Update Utility would fail to recognize the ISO as useful media. The simple answer is to update the vSphere Host Update Utility to its current version. Once that...
October 22, 2009 3:14 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
iphone,
rss,
viigo,
vmware best practices,
vmware performance,
vmware vroom,
vSphere 4,
white paper
If you haven't subscribed to this RSS Feed, you should do so now... it includes
October 7, 2009 1:55 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Basic System Administration,
commiting snapshots,
delta file,
ESX,
ESXi,
how much space is needed to commit a snapshot,
insufficient space to commit snapshot,
snapshot manager,
Storage,
vmware,
vmware backupI wanted to clear the air on snapshots, everyone is always asking, how much space does it take to remove a snapshot, but no one has a real answer... whatever the answer may be this information inserted from the Basic System Administration PDF, which is...
September 26, 2009 5:01 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Distributed Resource Scheduling,
DRS,
ESX,
ESX 3.5,
ESX 4.0,
snapshots,
vmotion,
vSphere 4I think setting DRS(Distributed Resource Scheduling) to manual mode when removing snapshots, should be best practice, especially when you are only running two ESX servers and they are slightly taxed. Why? Mainly because when you remove a snapshot, especially a two tiered one, it can cause the hard...
April 8, 2009 12:45 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Buslogic,
ESX,
ESX Server 3.5,
installing Windows XP Pro on ESX,
LSI Logic,
vmware,
Windows XPOkay I have seen this a lot, and I have also solved this myself, but I'm going to be honest with you when installing Windows XP Pro on an ESX Server and using the LSI Drivers, you will have issues. There is a driver on LSI's website that you can use, but I don't have that information for you at the...
February 25, 2009 3:14 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
LIC,
License Server,
LMTOOLS,
Virtual Center,
vmwareWell this isn't about how much fun you can have with VMWare Virtual Center, but on how somethings can be worked around and some things just need to be re-installed! :)
Starts off with an couple ESX Servers and Virtual Center all running out of evaluation days... yes I know, procrastination on my...
February 6, 2009 9:24 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
ESX 3.5,
ESX and IDE,
ide,
NCQ,
sata,
upgrade path,
vmfsWhat the heck am I talking about you say? Well I decided to load ESX 3.5 on a workstation of mine. This is so I could do a test upgrade from 3.5 to 3.5 Patch 3, mainly because I want to make sure VMFS and the VMs are retained after upgrading to said patch level.
So I commenced installing ESX 3.5...
