This is a collection of tips I’ve collected (from various sources) over time for running Citrix on an ESX virtual machine. I currently use all of these items in my environment. Use Windows Server 2003 or 2008. Do not use Windows 2000! Start [...]
Archive for June, 2009
ESX – 64GB Memory Limitation
Trying to install ESX 3.X on a new server with greater than 64GB of RAM? Then you’ve probably run into a problem. When looking at the host summary in VC, a host with no VMs on it will appear to be utilizing [...]
ESX – Options for setting a static MAC in a VM
Along the way you might run into a P2V (or need to build a new VM) that will host an application which has a license attached to it’s NIC. In order to do this, you generally need to provide the [...]
VMware SRM – Datastore Naming
When failing over from a production site to a DR site, the datastores that are mounted on the ESX hosts at your DR site are named using the “snap-xxxxxxx-NAME” naming convention by default. Per this thread, this was not this [...]
VMware SRM – My initial thoughts
Recently, I had an opportunity to install and configure SRM in a test lab, as part of a project related to a datacenter move. VMware Site Recovery Manager is THE tool to utilize when you’re looking to create an automated [...]
vSphere Fault Tolerance Simulation
vmware.info has posted a really nice flash simulator for setting up Fault Tolerance in vSphere. This simulation gives you a great idea of how to configure and test the Fault Tolerance feature if you aren’t running vSphere in your lab. I’ll [...]