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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]