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December 24, 2008  3:07 AM

VMware 3.5 won’t start any VMs if the Licensing server is down



Posted by: Denny Cherry
Licensing Server, Patching, Virtual Center, VMware

So tonight I finely got around to patching the fourth VMware ESX 3.0.2 server to 3.5 Update 3. The other 3 servers went just fine, quick reboot when done and back up and running in no time. So experience said that the fourth one would be no problem...

May 19, 2008  4:53 PM

EMC World 2008 Day 1 (The first post)



Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World 2008, Storage, Storage Vmotion, VDM, Virtual Desktop Manager, VMware

While waiting for the first keynote to start I figured that this would be as good a time as any to write a quick post.  I just got out of the first session of the morning.  I decided to catch the VMware VI3 session which went over the new features of ESX 3.5.  It was a very good session...


January 21, 2008  8:00 AM

Virtualizing SQL Server? When to and when not to.



Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL, Virtualization

Virtualizing servers is huge right now.  And thanks to VMWare it is very easy to build virtual machines.  In most of IT virtualizing servers is a good think.  In the database world, that isn't always the case.  As we know...