With all of my recent ftPerl love, I’ve found that the quickest way to at least start troubleshooting it is to reconfigure the offending host for HA. This is fine if working in a small environment, or on a small number of hosts, but there are a metric ton of these hosts gone sideways all [...]
Clones and Snapshots, two of the many modern day miracles to come from virtualization. No? So they’re not as cool as VMware’s vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability, Fault Tolerance are they, but the are the foundation on which that magic is built. What happens to the machine in your corporate domain when you need [...]
Mr. Siebert of vSphere-land is updating his top 20 VMware Blog list, and is looking for some help deciding what his Top 5 should be. You can see the current list on his vLaunchPad, and then vote here. From the original post:
I have a hard time picking the top blogs from the many great ones [...]
Walking through the full vSphere ESX install today (Not ESXi like I had been using) I came across what seems to be one of the most awesome new features of vSphere ESX: Custom Drivers!
I just don’t have any custom drivers to install right now, but it is gloriously awesome none the less.
The last one of these got quite a bit of mileage, so it may be worthwhile to repeat them on occasion. This week, while sitting in VMwares DSA (Deploy, Secure, Analyze) Class posting will be ‘interesting’ at best. So here it goes:
Virtu-al’s first Online VMUG was a success, with about 30-45 viewers. It’s been recorded [...]
Disclaimer: Just because you can do a thing, does not mean it is smart. What is described here is a “Bad Idea” for any number of reasons, the least of which is running non supported 3rd party code on your service console. Further, as you’ll see below, the kernel version ntfs-3g expects, is not the [...]
This blog, thus far has been all about VI. How and what to automate, how to get yourself out of some sticky spots, and perhaps some turtles thrown in for good measure. However, it’s missing something. What is that? YOU! What is going on in your VI? Having trouble? Stuck on something? Some DBA on [...]
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