Just upgraded VMware Workstation on my Vista Machine and the Unity feature is great. I also have upgraded Fusion which also includes the Unity feature and greatly improves Fusion on the Mac. Most of my testing has been with Fusion and it’s just a fabulous experience on the Mac. I feel that VMware has made [...]
Tech Target will hold there annual Data Center Decisions Conference from Oct 23rd - Oct 25th in Chicago. This is a free conference and usually is valuable that includes some great speakers. This years Virtualization track will include the following presentations.
Getting Started: Planning and Implementing a Virtualization Project
Presented by George Crump, President and Founder, Storage [...]
There is a lot of new VMware Fusion video tutorials posted on the VMware E-Learning Channel on YouTube. For some this is a great way to learn about the product. So check them out here.
Symantec has released Backup Exec 12.5 with new VMware and Hyper-V agents. Here is the new features for the agents from Symantec.
Comprehensive Data Protection for VMware Infrastructures and Microsoft Virtual Servers
Expanded virtual server data protection with two new virtual Agents
Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructures and Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Virtual Servers (including [...]
Today I had VM that was hung and any command ran on the VM did nothing. So after further investigation there was a process still running under the VM. So performing the following command resolved the issue.
Login to the SC on which the VM is running on
ps -ef | grep Name-Of-VM (This will return the [...]
There were a lot of post last week during VMworld, so many I couldn’t keep up with the reading. So I just wanted to point out some of the blog post that had some great content.
VMworld 2008 Day 1 Keynote by Scott Lowe
VMworld 2008 Day 2 Keynote by Scott Lowe
BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations [...]
I thought since there are lot of questions on the VMware Community forums pertaining to HA errors I would document a list of troubleshooting tips:
Check to make sure DNS is configured properly
Check to see if you can resolve DNS
Check DNS records
Make sure you are using FQDN’s
Check your /etc/hosts file
Make sure your using lower case
Check Service [...]
This is my first time at VMworld, so maybe my expectations are lower than others. So far the first day of the event has went quite smooth for a conference of 14,000. Registration was nicely organized and quick. The lab I participated in was “ESX/ESXi Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting. This lab was good John Hall [...]
Please refer to the following post for troubleshooting HA Errors.
We recently just changed an IP on our second service console in ESX. After this we changed the DNS record to reflect the new IP. We then re-configured the ESX host for HA, and received the following error ‘An error occurred during configuration of the HA [...]
After upgrading one of our ESX 3.5 Update 2 host I noticed the Health Status was missing. So after digging into this further disconnecting the host and re-connecting the host the Health Status re-appeared under configuration. This seems to be an issue with VC not picking up the new feature.
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