Despite all of the time you spent planning your virtual machine deployment, inevitably someone will want to make a change to their VM. While some of these may be straight forward, change the CPU allocation, increase the memory allotment, some of these will not be. Say the accounting team had determined they needed 450GB for
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So I wanted to talk on best practices for your Service Console, what it’s for, and why and how to make it redundant. As that’s a lot of information, we’ll break it out in some parts. This first part we’ll talk about what the service console is, and what it does. So what is the
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Straight from the VMware Security announcement mailing list: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0018.html VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues. A flaw in the CPU hardware emulation may allow for a privilege escalation on virtual machine guest operating systems. In addition a directory traversal issue is resolved. Read that over again… A flaw
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I have a confession to make. It is dire in nature, and will likely surprise most of you. I’m lazy. So much so, that I’m a professional at it. I suppose that sounds pretty bad, and if my boss is reading this (I doubt he is), it’s also quite incriminating, so lets qualify a bit.
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I wanted to share some of the various certification resources out there for VMware. It is one of the HOT IT Certifications right now, up there with the CISSP and RHCE, and it’s quite useful as well. At least the class & test were not 100% fluff like some other vendors produce. Right now VMware
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So I had typed up this epic intro into this pre-review, but then deleted for the sake of brevity. I received in the mail today, via USPS shipment from Amazon.com, my copy of VMware Infrastructure 3 Advanced Technical Design Guide & Advanced Operations Guide (VI3ATG). The book weighs in at about 2-2.5lbs, and is about
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So, this is a bit of old news, and you have likely heard it from no fewer than thirty other places so far, but I feel I need to chime in too. ESX 3.5 update 3 is now available! The release notes mention a pretty cool feature that’s been added, that will help make life
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One of the great things about VM’s is how quickly they boot. This however can be a problem when you need to access a bios setting, say to have it boot a cd drive first. In your favorite editor, open your vmx file, and add the following line if it is not already there: bios.bootDelay
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Welcome indeed. My hope here is to build a running log(blog) of ideas, best practices, and other useful VMWare information, that can be used both at home for practice, and at work in a professional context.