Virtualization Team

Oracle Ditches Virtual Iron & VMware offering ’safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users

virtualized1970 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:50:33 +0000

Only after a bit over a month of Oracle acquiring Virutal Iron, they have to ditches the product. That mean customers who had already bought Virtual Iron or planning to buy it will be left in the dark waiting for a savior. It seems VMware has been well aware of the situation & prepared to [...]

VMware Capacity Planner on System without internet

VMbloggie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:34:53 +0000

Offline VMware Capacity Planner: I have mostly done online VMware Capacity Planner as most customers usually don’t mind it, though when I started offering VMware Capacity Planner for Banks & Ministries that’s when Offline VMware Capacity Planner came handy. Many of the companies & ministries mind you sending data online directly, where they are OK with [...]

VMWare ESXi editing the Hostfile

VMbloggie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:01:39 +0000

If you are as paranoid with redundancy as my team & I are, then entering the hostnames & IPs of all the server in a cluster into the VMware host file is a must. As your VMware HA is dependant on your servers being able to resolve the names of itself & other ESX server [...]

VMware ESXi - Console Access (Unsupported)

virtualized1970 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:19:23 +0000

Did the title bring your attention? Have you heard that one of the main reasons for VMware ESXi was to get rid of the service console? Are you sure there is no console in VMware ESXi? The true is there is still a very tiny console in VMware ESXi, though it has way smaller foot [...]

VMware vSphere does not support VMware SRM & VMware View

VMbloggie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:11:35 +0000

It had been asked so often lately, if VMware vSphere support SRM & VMware View yet. I had even got calls from customers who tried to integrate the two together. The VMware statement is quite clear in this regard, both VMware Site Recovery Manager(SRM) & VMware View are not supported yet by VMWare vSphere 4.0. [...]

MS Hyper-V Virtualization Myths Busting

virtualized1970 — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:00:24 +0000

I have just came across a video of Microsoft trying to bust VMware top Myths, but what is funny to me it seems Microsoft had just busted them selfes in the video than anything else. The link to the video is below: http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/f8c3314f-c82d-4f8d-8b19-6a59733670f8 I have seen Gabe reply on his blog at his Gabes virtualization Blog which [...]

ESXi cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes

VMbloggie — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:21:21 +0000

In the past few weeks, I had been hit by many calls of many of my colleagues & customers being hit by the following error when trying to configure VMware ESXi HA: “cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes” After investigating the error for sometime & searching on the internet I [...]

MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load

virtualized1970 — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:45:41 +0000

This video is just what the title said, MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load. Watch out what a mess you are planning to go into!!!!! I expect to see too many comments on this one, don’t get me disappointed :).

Changing the VLAN ID of a ESX Service Console using Command Line

virtualized1970 — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:39:35 +0000

A good amount of ESX admins ask on dialy basis how to change the VMware ESX Service Console Vlan using command line. As I decided to save time by writing the steps for these kind of questions to send it to others when asked. I will document these commands in here: First of all check which [...]

Cisco TelePresence - On-Stage Holographic Video Conferencing

VMbloggie — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:28:32 +0000

I know reading the title you wonder what does this has to do with Virtualizaiton, but if you look deep into it you will find out that some one has figured out how to virtualize human :). For example you have one instructur & he can do lecture in 20 different countries which is 100s [...]