August 31, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Chris Webb,
Project Octopus,
VMware,
VMware GO,
VMworld,
VMworld 2011,
vSphere 5.0So today was day 2 of VMworld 2011 and today was a great day at the conference. We had a great keynote with some demos which were pretty funny (I really hope that they were supposed to be funny). Granted I was a little late to the keynote so I missed the first few minutes, but
August 30, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Paul Maritz,
VMware,
VMworld,
VMworld 2011Today was day 1 of VMware and I had a blast, even though I was only able to attend for part of the day. I flew into Vegas this morning instead of spending the night last night. I didn't hit any sessions today, but I did catch the keynote which was given by Paul Maritz the CEO of VMware.
The...
July 25, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
SQL Server,
Virtual Chapter,
Virtualization,
VMwareDuring the webcast which I did for the SQL PASS Virtulization Virtual Chapter on July 13th, 2011 a question came up that I didn't have the answer for. The question was if I had done "Any testing on the effect of Hiding NX/XD flag from guest with SQL Server on ESX?". I hadn't done any testing...
May 11, 2011 4:16 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2011,
GreenPlum,
SQL Server,
VMware,
VNX,
VNXeYesterday was EMC World day 2 and it was another great day at the conference. I started the day a little late as I was out pretty late on Monday night at a party. I was abe to great some great sessions in during the day however.
The first session that I hit was "SQL Server on VMware -...
March 14, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Hyper-V,
SQL Server,
Training,
VMware,
WebcastMicrosoft is putting on a great free three day online class for VMware professionals that need to learn more about Hyper-V.
Day 1 will focus on “Platform” (Hyper-V, virtualization architecture, high availability & clustering)
November 18, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Hyper-V,
SQL Server,
Virtualization,
VMwareThis question comes up every once and a while when designing a virtualization solution for someone. When building a virtualization solution (either Hyper-V or VMware) you get some great free HA solutions included when you build a cluster so why would you want to go through the pain of creating a...
November 4, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Permissions,
VMwareSo after I upgraded from VMware's vSphere 4.0 to 4.1 I ran across an awesome "feature". Apparently for security purposes VMware's vSphere decided that after the upgrade no one can log into the server except for root, and the vpxuser (the account that the vCenter server uses to log into the...
September 30, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
VMwareJust after upgrading our hosts from VMware 4.0 to 4.1 I ran across a little problem. None of the guest machines could get the VMware tools upgraded automatically. I had to log into each machine and upgrade the tools (ok I only did 2 or 3 manually). It turns out that if the VMware tools had...
August 23, 2010 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
vCenter,
VMwareSo I recently upgraded by VMware vCenter server from 4.0 U1 to 4.0 U2 and ran across a little problem. After I upgraded I couldn't attach any hosts to the vCenter server. It kept telling me that vCenter couldn't talk to the host even though it could.
After digging into the logs we saw that...
