There are now four, FOUR ATDG chapters available, HA ha ha! http://www.vi3book.com/index.php/component/content/article/83 I can’t say this enough, but if Virtualization is the new Religion, this is it’s bible, and should be required reading all about.
I never thought of it this way, but alas, this weekend, a few folks have spent quite some time on it. It started with Brenda at Virtual Gipsy: Of the things I learned while studying anthropology, the one that stuck most was to always pay attention to that which stands out. Unexpected behavior, words that
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No I’m not kidding either. Found this via Twitter last evening in fact. There is now a Twitter plugin for the VI client. Not sure how much use it is, but it shows how flexible the plugin stuff can really get. Go to the source and check it out yourself.
This book is now officially on my wish list. Dead tree, PDF, doesn’t matter. More and more companies are choosing to virtualize and consolidate their server environments with VMware to achieve smaller footprints and reduced operating costs, but optimizing the virtualized environment is nearly impossible without a solid strategy in place. This complete guide to
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Apparently networking in Ubuntu goes funny when you change it’s Mac Address, and picks up the changed MAC as a new NIC, and assigns it the next number sequentially. While you can get around this by statically setting the MAC address, you generally want to avoid that. Having duplicate MAC addresses is a “Bad Idea”
-> Continue reading Ubuntu Cloning – Mac Address Change Mayhem.
Are you submitting? I know I will (or at least think I will).
Maybe not ‘roids, but with a large helping of awesome, like, vDiagram, shown below. Click on over to virtu-al.net to see the rest.
If like me you couldn’t get to VMworld Europe 2009, this will be great news. They’ve made the VI Toolkit Lab available online. I’ll give this a run through later tonight.
I got a bit carried away this weekend on other projects (mostly reading, with a side of biking), so here is an early morning dose of turtle love for this Monday. Picture by: Moha’ Al-Bastaki Turtle Races! The Flint RiverQuarium held their first Turtle Race on the facility’s water steps that same afternoon. “This is
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Go check it out! Be sure to come and see me speak!
Well, this being the third time I’m trying to write this post (some issues with my Wwindows 7 VM, something to be said for autosave). VMware recently released a white paper showing a performance comparison between the e1000 and enhanced vmxnet drivers. In most cases the vmxnet driver outperformed and used less CPU overall than
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I wasn’t there, but had a few other folks on Twitter point out to me that I got a mention during one of Carters presentations on automating VMware with PowerShell. Startled and amazed by this, I asked for some proof, and well… got it: Woo! For those that didn’t know I’ll be doing a similar
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Interesting indeed. Scott Lowe & Mr. Brambley already did an excellent write up, so I’ll spare you more boring reading. However, this opens up some further cool uses for VMFS. “This driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted in the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) by VMware. VMFS is a clustered
-> Continue reading Now This is Very Interesting – Open Source VMFS Driver!
JeOS! Pronounced “Juice”. What a concept. Isn’t it? JeOS is still a relatively new concept in the virtualization scene. Build an appliance with “Just enough OS”. As it’s a relatively new concept, I’ve got a relatively new turtle (two actually, but you’ll meet the other later). Meet JeOS: JeOS is a Red Eared Slider, all
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging – Meet JeOS!
Incase you didn’t know Pancil and I will be presenting “Automating Virtual Infrastructures With Windows PowerShell” at the Virtualization Congress. Yes… Virtualization Infrastructures, not just VMware, but Xen and Hyper-V too. Get your early registration on over here. Leave me a bit of a note in the comments if you’re planning on coming.
Well, it started at midnight, a standard hardware upgrade really. Power down the VM’s, shut down the host, and call the DC team to do their thing. Twenty minutes later, got a ring from the DC, that the upgrade had been completed. I popped open the VC, and well, there was no local storage. It
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… And I’m now one of them. Whichever six of you nominated me thanks! Actually I’m quite humbled they’ve chosen me for this award amongst so many other excellent candidates. At this point I’m one of about 300 of these vExperts Globally. Here is the post from VMware: Congratulations and thank you to all our
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At least three of these, and laminate at least one. Really. The VI Toolkit Quick Reference card by Virtual-Al is a perfect starter guide, and quick reference doc for those working with the VI Toolkit. Not only because I’ve got a line or two in it, but because it really is useful, take a look:
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VMware has updated their Time Keeping Best Practices KB’s. The new timekeeping articles are: 1006427 Timekeeping best practices for Linux 1007020 Linux using TSC clocksource stops responding 1008284 Time falls behind in a virtual machine when the guest operating system writes to previously unwritten regions of its virtual disk 1005861 Time falls behind in virtual
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The VMware Networking Blog has posted a useful set of slides on troubleshooting VMware networking: At VMworld last September, one of our engineering staff, Srinivas Neginhal, delivered a fabulous breakout session on the topic of “VI3 Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting.” Srinivas squeezed a 79-slide deck into the available time—he could have easily doubled or tripled the
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