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Carolina’s User Summit – 15th May

New VMware KB Article – Cannot not add ESXi Host

This new KB article caught my eye from VMware today… At first I thought it might be an answer to my disconnects to ESXi when was doing the upgrade to vSphere 4.0 Update 1. It’s entitled: “Adding an ESXi 4.0 host to vCenter Server 4.0 fails with the error: Cannot install the vCenter agent...

1st Scottish VMware User Group Meeting

It was my pleasure to be at the 1st Scottish VMware User Group meeting on Friday. I helped out by stepping in a delivering the “vNews” section and also a quick preso on vStorage Plug-ins from NetApp and EMC. Also at the event were some VMware folks who talked about the upgrade process from...

A vLegend starts his blog…

I would like to introduce everyone who visits/subscribes to RTFM to a new blogger – Ken Cline. Ken is by no means a new kid on the block. He’s been around in VMTN Communities before even I began – and man, does that feel like a long time ago. I’ve huge respect for Ken, as he was very...

VMotion CPU Tool

Richard Garsthagen (Technical Marketing Manager EMEA for VMware) has written a cool VMotion CPU Compatiability Tool for ESX 3.x using the SDK for VirtualCenter. As Richard puts it: “This application gathers information from all physical hosts about the CPUs installed and what features they...

Forum Posts of the Week

Here’s a cluster of the choicest threads of the last week. Admittedly, most of them are question from students, posted on the Forum on their behalf. So some are largely of acedemic interest whereas others are more telling. Does VMware support Microsoft Clustering on Service Pack 1 of...