Archive for Januar 14th, 2009
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 tested) to [...]
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 be right – there are [...]
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 [...]
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 10” on page 185, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
