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Change Microcode in Xenserver/Everrun

Wouter Heije — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:22:22 +0000

Up until today I even didn’t know what Microcode or what it’s purpose was. After today I’ve learned a lot about it and would like to share it with you. ”Microcode is a layer of lowest-level instructions involved in the implementation of machine code instructions in many computers and other processors” is the description from Wikipedia. I read [...]

Know what you’re talking about : get a free hyper-v training

Matthijs Haverink — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:52:21 +0000

As a technical consultant and VMware enthousiast I’m very often evangalizing the power and beauty of VMware and it’s products but I also have to face it that Microsoft’s share in the Hardware Virtualization space is growing. I have to know what I’m talking about when suggesting that VMware has the best solution for a [...]

VMware CodeCentral Blog : Administrators heaven ?

Matthijs Haverink — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:52:06 +0000

Maybe you were already familiar with it but the VMware Communities host a part that’s called VMware Code Central. It’s what supposed to grow to VI/VS administrators heaven I guess. It’s a collection of VI 3 and vSphere 4 sample codes (PowerCli/Perl SDK) for regular administrator tasks like Backing up VM’s, Making reports, Resource Pool Calculations [...]

VMware ThinApp 4.0.3 released

Sven Huisman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:57:36 +0000

Last week, VMware released a minor update for VMware ThinApp: 4.0.3. Here are the release notes: What’s New The 4.0.3 release adds the ObjectTypes parameter to the Package.ini file. You can use this parameter to specify a list of virtual COM objects that are visible to other applications in the physical environment. The 4.0.3 release changed the name [...]

HOWTO manage HP P400 RAID controller in a vSphere whitebox

Sven Huisman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:22:24 +0000

A while ago I posted an article about my ESX whitebox and the HP P400 RAID controller I use in this whitebox server. At that time, I used ESXi 3.5 and there was no way I could configure or get the status from the RAID controller. Fortunately, someone commented that it was possible when using [...]

Long distance VMotion??

Sven Huisman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:51:41 +0000

You might already know by now that the session catalog for VMWorld 2009 is online. Some interesting sessions caught my attention. Here are some of them: Long distance VMotion We will discuss best practices for setting up VMotion domains over long distances using existing hardware technology and VMware vSphere product. Will cover specific configurations that have been tried [...]

Xtravirt : How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM

Matthijs Haverink — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:20:57 +0000

I already wrote an articly last week concerning the 1st week of general availability of vSphere and refered to Roy Mikes’ article about installing ESX on VMware Workstation but now Xtravirt, known by their usefull PDF’s concerning these issues have released their howto “How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM“. Their PDF, [...]

VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance Simulation

Chris Reurings — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:45:27 +0000

There is a nice simulation of VMware vSphere FT available on the net I want to share with you. During the simulation you have the possability to enable FT logging, enable FT for a VM and simulate a faillure of the primary VM which is running FT. You can access the Flash simulator here: http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2009/06/training-lab-simulator-for-vsphere.html It’s a short simulation of [...]

Reduce MS licensing costs by 95% !!! in a virtualized environment.

Matthijs Haverink — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:01:15 +0000

This sounds impossible but when I read Gabe’s article correctly he brings back Microsoft OS licensing costs of about $800.000 (for 200 physical hosts) back to just $40.000 (for 200 virtual hosts). Of course this presents an ideal situation. The situation Gabe describes: - 200 physical hosts -> 200 virtual guests on 7 physical hosts - virtualization solution can be any: [...]

VMware vSphere 4 partner training

Chris Reurings — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:01:57 +0000

With your VMware Partner account, login to Partner Central and select the “Partner University” tab for all your vSphere training. If you are already VSP and VTSP for VI3, you can simply follow the upgrade path. Upgrading from VSP 3 (total 1,5 hours): - Products overview - Solutions overview - VMware pricing & licensing Per course you can do the exam with 20 questions each. Upgrading from [...]