Archive for June, 2009

Per processor licensing for virtual machines

I read a great post on Friday over at Yellow-Bricks  (which by the way, is one of my favorite virtulization blogs to follow). I think this “feature” is great, and can’t wait to hear if it is fully supported or [...]

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ESX Best Practice – Service Console memory

Something I’ve known the benefits of for a while, but didn’t actually make part of my standard ESX build until fairly recently, is increasing the service console memory during install to 800MB. Out of the box, VMware has given  (in [...]

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ESX snapshot deletion times out

First, let me say that in my dealings with ESX, a snapshot deletion process will rarely timeout if your snapshots are properly managed. Snapshots are meant to be taken before modifying the guest OS, and then removed within 2 or [...]

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vMotion issues after upgrade to vSphere

I recently upgraded two test hosts to vSphere. Both hosts were placed in a non EVC enabled cluster. After upgrading the vmware tools and the virtual hardware version from version 4 to 7  I noticed I was no longer able [...]

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My new blog…

Welcome to virtublog. I’ve been saying for months and months that I was going to start myself a blog based around virtualization, but considering there are so many of these types of blogs, I’ve been hesitant. Today I realized that [...]

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