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 software vendor the MAC address to your VM. That being said, it’s important to ensure [...]
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 way in the SRM beta, but was changed for the GA release so folks would be [...]
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 both ESX 3.X and vSphere) the service console 272MB of memory. This may be fine [...]
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 3 days. Forgotten snapshots can cause a multitude of problems ranging from filling up your [...]
