October 22, 2010 2:42 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
Internet Explorer 9 Beta,
microsoft,
PCoIP,
view client fails to connect,
view client stick,
vmware,
vmware view 4.5 and internet explorer 9,
Windows,
Windows 7 SP1 BetaIt just doesn't work... no matter what the settings, there is something in IE9 includes an updated networking library that causes View Client to fail. You may get an error message or you may get nothing but a stuck view client, in which you need to use task manager and end the process. The process...
October 13, 2010 2:36 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Hyper-V R1,
Hyper-V R2,
IPv6,
new version,
Server 2008 R2,
VCB,
vCenter,
vmware,
VMware Converter 4.3,
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3,
vsphere,
Windows 7VMware Converter was released Aug 20th 2010.
There are some new features and functions, yet there are some discontinued features. See below.
What's New
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 includes the following new functionality:
•Support for VMware vSphere 4.1 as...
September 23, 2010 7:01 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
best practises,
File level restore,
file level restore error,
Veeam,
vmwareWhat is it? It allows you to restore guest OS files from multiple operating systems, for instance Linux. How do you enable it? download and install VMware Player, after that "Veeam File Level Restore" takes over. There is a couple settings that you can set in Preferences that will save you some...
September 21, 2010 2:05 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
datastores,
ESX 3.5,
ESX hosts,
ESX vSphere 4,
ESXi 3.5,
ESXi vSphere 4,
heartbeat,
rvtools,
snapshots,
vinfo,
vmnics,
vmware,
VMware ToolsRVTools
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4 RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics,...
September 1, 2010 12:49 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
dekstop virtualization,
ESX 4.1,
seamless desktop experience,
USB Passthrough,
View 4.5,
vmware,
VMworld 2010,
vSphere vCenterDay 1 at VMworld, you couldnt officialy talk about VMware View 4.5. Day 2 at VMworld, its officially been announced!
Create a seamless desktop experience with VMware View 4.5, the industry’s leading purpose-built solution for delivering desktops as a managed service. Transform application and...
August 30, 2010 4:11 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX 4,
Remove all snapshots,
snapshot,
Unable to Access file since it is locked,
Veeam Backup,
Veeam backup failure,
Veeam replication failure,
vmware,
VMware Snapshot Issue,
vsphereI had a server that stopped a backing up via Veeam, VMware said it had a snapshot(Remove all snapshots <Servername> Unable to Access file <unspecified filename> since it is locked.), but I didnt see any in Snapshot manager. What I had to do to reveal the snapshot was to create a new...
August 25, 2010 1:33 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
DBManager.MainDs,
ESX,
initializer threw exception,
Veeam Backup and Fast SCP,
Veeam cannot start,
vm backup,
vmwareThis happened to me on a Windows Server 2008 x64 machine, after booting it up from a hard failure. The version was 4.1. I tried upgrading to version 4.1.2 but that didn't help.
What you need to do is delete the user.config file in the directory that the error message specified. For me it was...
August 10, 2010 6:05 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
core 2 duo,
core i7,
enhanced vmotion compatability,
EVC,
vCenter Update 1,
vmware,
VMware vCenter ServerSometimes you need to enable EVC to make sure vMotion plays nice with your ESX Hosts, I used this document as a reference point to make sure everything would work once EVC was enabled.
July 30, 2010 1:40 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
administrator,
microsoft,
Sysadmin,
system administrator,
vmwareHey everyone, if you an IT Administrator of any kind, its SysAdmin Day! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/udhd9fmOdCs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] So grab yourself a coffee, sit back, and administrator something technical! :)
