Archive for Januar, 2009
Register Now for VMworld Europe 2009 – The Leading Virtualization Conference
VMworld Europe is the largest virtualization event in for Europe, Middle East and South Africa. The industry is continuing to invest in Virtualization technologies and and we are expecting over 100 partners to support the event with headline sponsors confirmed as CA, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NetApp and Symantec.
This conference will offer [...]
VMware View: Neue Perpektiven für virtuelle Desktops – Newsletter
VMware View: Neue Perpektiven für virtuelle Desktops
VMware View: Neue Perpektiven fürvirtuelle Desktops
Die nächste Generation der Virtuellen Desktop-Infrastruktur von VMware
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
mit der bewährten Lösung VDI setzte VMware bereits
Maßstäbe für virtuelle Desktops bezüglich Sicherheit, Verwaltung und
Verfügbarkeit. VMware View geht nun noch einen Schritt weiter und bietet Ihnen folgende zusätzliche Vorteile.
Bis zu 95% weniger Speicherplatz
durch [...]
VMware Infrastructure 3 Documentation
VMware Infrastructure 3 Documentation
VMware Infrastructure 3 Documentation
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 or ESX 3.5 Update 3
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 2 or vCenter Server 2.5 Update 3
Features |
Technical Papers |
Knowledge Base |
VMware Infrastructure Community |
Downloads
VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 offers three server versions —
ESX, ESXi Embedded, and ESXi Installable. The documents listed on this
page cover [...]
Setting up VMware Update Manager Download Service for Isolated Networks
VMware Communities: Setting up Vmware Update Manager Download Service for Isolated Networks
Patching Offline ESX servers with Vmware Update Manager
This is my brief guide to what I did to setup patching for isolated networks, like those in intellegence communities, etc. This is meant to help fill in some of the gaps that the documentation left in [...]
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support
Details:
Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) simplifies VMotion compatibility issues across CPU generations. EVC automatically configures server CPUs with Intel FlexMigration or AMD-V Extended Migration technologies to be compatible with older servers. After EVC is enabled for a cluster in the VirtualCenter inventory, all hosts in that cluster are configured to present identical CPU features and ensure [...]
Virtual Strategy Magazine – Top 10 PowerShell scripts that VMware administrators should use
Virtual Strategy Magazine – Top 10 PowerShell scripts that VMware administrators should use
PowerShell
is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language developed
by Microsoft that can be used to help automate common administration tasks and
also provide information about your VMware environment. PowerShell can be used
for many different things in Windows environments but can also be used [...]
Tons of new stuff in the VI Toolkit Community Extensions
Thanks to none other than Mr. Luc Dekens the VI Toolkit Community Extensions are growing by leaps and bounds.
Here’s a full list of the new advanced functions Luc has added:
Name
Description
Get-TkeAllPrivileges
Show all privileges defined by VirtualCenter.
Get-TkeCDPInfo
Gets Cisco CDP info for a given host.This lets you know what switch port your host is on.
Get-TkePermissions
Lists permissions assigned to a [...]
New in the VI Toolkit Community Extensions: Set virtual switch security.
While
we all eagerly await CTP3 of PowerShell Version 2 I wanted to mention
that I’m a big fan of PowerShell Version 2’s modules and script cmdlets
because combining these technologies makes it possible to build large,
cohesive and really useful management modules even if you’re not a
developer.
Glenn Sizemore has written just such a script cmdlet that lets you
set the security [...]
SRM demo video, usage tips: new from Uptime
Our
new blog Uptime continues to deliver the goods. Two new posts from
VMware’s own Lee Dilworth cover vCenter Site Recovery Manager from the
overview (if you’re still trying to get a handle on what SRM does and
how it replaces that paper DR plan and set of scripts you’ve never
really fully [...]
Two new docs at our community site: esxtop, VMFS
Two
nice new resources from us are now available in the VMware Communities:
one on esxtop statstics, and the other on VMFS best practices. (See all the community documents here.) I do not know if these will show up in our white paper directory at some point. Hmm, Rod may [...]
Proven practices for SRM
http://www.vmware.com
I’ve been seeing lots of chatter about Site Recovery Manager lately. Books, videos, all sorts of good stuff. Tomas Ten Dam is doing a great job of covering a lot of these as well as doing yeoman’s work on his SRM in a Box project; check out his blog for more.
But
today I want to call [...]
Latest Updates
These are the changes or updates made to the Guest Operating System Installation Guide since it was last published:
Added VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages information
to supported guests. See “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5” on page 129, “Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4” on page 135, “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server [...]
Exchange on VMware Infrastructure: podcast, webinar, white papers
VMware: VMTN Blog: Exchange on VMware Infrastructure: podcast, webinar, white papers
A common question that comes up with our customers is, “Can I put Microsoft Exchange 2007 on VMware Infrastructure?” And the answer is “You betcha!”
We eat our own dogfood here at VMware.* See this new-ish white paper: Deploying Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure: A [...]
VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 U3 I/O failure on SAN LUN(s) and LUN queue is blocked indefinitely
VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 U3 I/O failure on SAN LUN(s) and LUN queue is blocked indefinitely
KB Article 1008130
Updated Jan. 12, 2009
Products
VMware ESX
Product Versions
VMware ESX 3.5.x
VMware ESXi 3.5.x Embedded
VMware ESXi 3.5.x Installable
Symptoms
One or more of the following may be present:
* VMware ESX or ESXi host might get disconnected form VirtualCenter.
[...]
Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x
Australia and New Zealand’s Premier Virtualisation Community – Changing the IP address of service console in ESX 3.x
Written by Damian Murdoch Friday, 15 December 2006
If you want to change the IP address of the service console in ESX 3.x you can using a command in the service console. Read on for more.To change [...]
