Does the acronym PSOD send chills down your spine? Here’s a video which provides some understanding as to what a purple diagnostics screen (PSOD) means, and what it can tell you.
For more information and context, continue reading the KB article: Decoding Machine Check Exception (MCE) output after a purple screen error.
A new video today for those of you interested in how to do NIC teaming in ESX. A NIC team can share the load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among some or all of your VMs, as well as provide failover in the event of a hardware failure or a network outage.
While this video uses vSphere, the steps also apply to your VMware Infrastructure 3.5 environments.
For more information and context, continue reading the KB article: NIC teaming in ESX Server.
This video provides steps for uploading diagnostic information like log bundles, or any other information a VMware Support Engineer requests to our FTP server. You might get this request from our TSEs (Tech Support Engineer), and the information is often critical in troubleshooting issues you’ve encountered while using VMware products.
Continue reading the KB article: Uploading diagnostic information to VMware for the video and full text.
Our first video KB to kick off the new year provides steps for installing Windows XP as a guest operating system in VMware products.
The video was created using VMware Workstation, but the basic steps apply to VMware ESX, VMware Fusion, VMware ACE, and VMware Player as well.
When installing Windows XP as your guest operating system in your virtual machine, you may receive the error: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer." This is because a compatible disk controller driver is not shipped with Windows XP.
Continue on to read KB article: Windows XP setup cannot find any hard disk drives during installation for the video and full text.
This videos provides an overview of how to setup software iSCSI in VMware vSphere (VMware ESX 4 and VMware vCenter Server 4).
The steps are essentially the same for ESX 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5 so this applies to those versions as well.
The steps are performed using the vSphere Client. For earlier versions of ESX/vCenter Server, you’ll use the VMware Infrastructure Client to perform the steps.
Continue on to read KB article: Configuring and troubleshooting basic software iSCSI setup for the video and full text.
