I gave a presentation at my local VMUG meeting recently on the new features of the Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) that comes with vSphere 5.1. I thought I’d share some of those in this blog, along with a video on one of the coolest new features, roll back. To read more click here.
Recently I was working with a company on their VMware View 4.6 environment. They had been testing it for several months, but always experienced some issues. They added some more pools and a couple hosts (ESXi 5.0 servers) and the issues seemed to get worse. Of course all the errors were intermittent and so it…
had the pleasure of attending VMware’s VMworld conference this past week in San Francisco and sat in on several sessions. One of my favorites was called Troubleshooting Using vCenter Operations Manager, given by Kit Colbert and Praveen Kannan. They did a live lab in the session that turned out really well and showed how useful vCenter…
I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least intrusive way to do this and not break the whole VM appliance. If you’ve ever used Zenoss, you know the…
Have you heard of or used VMware Flings before? The definition of fling on the website is: “A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a fun one. Likewise, the tools that are offered here are intended to be played with and explored.” That’s just what I did with the newest version of vBenchmark,…
Last week VMware released its latest update to vSphere 5.0. This is basically a bug fix release without a whole lot of added features. To see what was updated please check out the release notes here. Please also read the compatibility guides and known issues before you perform any upgrades. This particular blog was written while…
Most people who know me know that I’m not an Apple person. I have an iPod Nano that’s about four years old and that’s about it. However, I’m slowly but surely recognizing the need for acceptance of various operating systems in the professional world. This is why I thought I would take an old Mac…
For the last several weeks I’ve been waiting with bated breath for VMware to approve the EMC MirrorView Site Recovery Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). I’ve checked the VMware site many times only to be disappointed that it was not showing up. There was talk of it on VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast and Twitter,…
t’s not just an urban legend. In this age of thin provisioning and growing snapshots, datastores really can (and do) run out of space! vSphere 5 luckily handles it a little better than the previous versions, which just automatically shut down you virtual machine. Now vSphere 5 will simply pause the machine. However, there are…