Is your NMI stuck? Well you better catch it! Hey! I’m allowed to make bad jokes. After all, that is why you keep coming back, no? So to follow up some on our prior NMI issues. It seems that unlike what was stated before, this isn’t specific to resource constraints, x64, or vSMP. In fact,
-> Continue reading Is Your NMI Stuck? – More On The NMI Stuck Issue
Forgot to do this Sunday, but below is a video of the VMware turtles being put back into their pond:
Can’t be much more descriptive than that. Check the release notes here. What’s New Notes: Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported and not all of these highlighted features are available unless you are using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 with ESX Server 3.5 Update 4. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and
-> Continue reading ESX 3.5 U4 Now Avail!
This has likely been out there for a while at this point, but these really are quite amazing, first the Visio Stencils: Now the PPT Icons:
This is much better than the post I had written, so here it goes. You are unable to add an ESX Server to a cluster in the VMware High Availability (HA) configuration . This article provides you with steps to: Troubleshoot an ESX Server that cannot be added to a cluster Troubleshoot VMware HA configuration
-> Continue reading VMware Guide to HA Troubleshooting
Still cleaning out my feed reader after having slacked for a few days, and came across this gem on Yellow-Bricks: I’ll have to give this a test shortly to see how well it performs. Woot!
Sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing. Or is it? I’ve had a few specific use cases come up (demos for Virtualization Congress) where running one virtualization platform, on another virtualization platform makes sense (There will be instructions released on doing this closer to the show). Suffice it to say the
-> Continue reading What Happens When Chuck Norris Divides By Zero? – Virtualizing Virtualization
I’ve run across several cases recently where assigning 4GB of memory to a 32bit VM caused some concern by folks looking at what’s available in the system properties. Example: The VM is set to use 4GB ram (4096MB) & Booted. Properties show less than 4GB As does Task Manager So why is this? It’s
-> Continue reading It Still Doesn’t Work – Windows 2003 Standard 32bit & 4 GB Ram
You can disregard this post as shameless self promotion, but thanks to y’all readers, Professionalvmware.com is #9 on the vLaunchpad top 20 list: I strongly suggest that you add the vLaunchpad as your homepage, and subscribe to the various rss feeds!
From the VI Toolkit blog. Can you spot the difference between this code: 1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) { 2: $disks = Get-HardDisk -vm $vm 3: foreach ($disk in $disks) { 4: Write-Host $disk.CapacityKB 5: } 6: } And this code: 1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) { 2: $disks = Get-HardDisk -vm $vm.name 3: foreach
-> Continue reading Go Go PowerShell Speed Racer! – Speeding up PowerShell scripts.
David Strom recently reviewed HyTrust Appliance on his blog: HyTrust offers managers and administrators of VMware’s ESX virtual infrastructure a centralized, single point of control for hypervisor configuration, compliance, and access management that is both secure and easy to use through ordinary Web browsers. We tested the RC version of the product in
-> Continue reading HyTrust Beta Video Tour
It’s not often you’re likely to see a VMware Workstation post here. Why? Because for my limited use case, it “Just Works”. Really, it just does. This weekend however, I had some minor issues, why? Well, at some time on Friday (Saturday?) my Ubuntu 8.04 host install gave up the ghost. Some update or another
-> Continue reading OpenSuse 11.1 on VMware Workstation – vmware-modconfig
It’s late on a Friday. You’ve just virtualized this workload app server, and now it’s gone straight to hell. No, it didn’t pass go first either. You go through the motions of checking the host, knowing that you triple checked it the first time before putting the workload on there. You verified that you’re not
-> Continue reading Windows VM? Performance Gone to Heck? – Check Some of These Non Obvious Places
This last weekend, the WordPress install on the site wasn’t the only thing that got an upgrade. The Professional VMware ‘offices’ got an upgrade as well. I’ve upgraded from a monolithic old wooden eyesore of a desk to a larger, aluminum & glass setup, that I think is just stylin. Take a look: Enough
-> Continue reading Upgrades! My Office, Your VMware Tools.
Since y’all voted me and Pancil into the Virtualization Congress. I figure y’all should have some input into the presentation. Keep in mind, we’ll not just be covering managing VMware VI with PowerShell, but we’ll also cover managing Xen & Hyper-V too. Anything general? Anything specific? A particular use case you’d like to see? Leave
-> Continue reading Managing VI with PowerShell Presentation – What Do You Want To See?
Duncan at Yellow-Bricks has posted an excellent guide to some resources he used to help prep for the VCDX exam. Go check it out!
A few weeks ago I introduced you to one of the newest members of the Professional VMware staff, JeOS. This week, you get to meet his partner in crime, PoSH! Like JeOS, PoSH is a baby Red Eared Slider, and like PowerShell for which he’s named, is still new on the scene, but is growing
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging – Meet PoSH!
The WordPress update took all of about 47 seconds. Total. Took longer to back things up. I’m still uploading all of the images and the like from the site to Mosso Cloud Files using the wonderful CDN-Plugin. Leave me a note in the comments or via Twitter if you run into any problems.
Sometime late this evening, likely around Midnight CST, I’ll be taking down professionalvmware.com for some needed upgrades. (I’ll also be making a backup of the site (something I should have done a while ago)). I don’t figure the upgrades will take all that long, but incase we’re not back by the time you open
-> Continue reading Upgrades!
What we have today, was brought up on #ESX on EfNet. They were looking for a script to generate output similar to what you get by clicking on “Hosts and Clusters”, selecting “File > Export > Export List…” Like this: What I came up with is not quite as pretty, but, it works, and you
-> Continue reading Chicken Counter Script