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Can’t Change Virtual Disk Formats When Targeting a Datastore Cluster
As I work more and more with vSphere 5 I am finding a few anomalies. One of them appears to be a bug where you cannot switch a VM’s disk format during a storage vMotion, when you target a datastore...
View Article5 Minutes with vCenter Operations Manager 5
I installed the new vCenter Operations Manager 5 about an hour ago. Whoa. I had the pleasure of meeting Kit Colbert, Praveen Kannan, and Martin Klaus last April when they were in town, and I know they,...
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Dell PowerEdge 12G Is Here
Over the last week there’s been a number of different posts about the new Dell PowerEdge models, the 12th generation (12G) of their server line. I was briefed both by Dell technical staff and by Dell...
View ArticleThree Failings of Virtual Appliances
I’m torn when it comes to virtual appliances. I love them because they make a lot of installations absolutely brainless. I hate them because the people that create them make assumptions that are...
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vSphere 5 Update 1 and vCenter Agent Upgrades
We applied vCenter 5 Update 1 on Sunday in my environment, which is earlier than we often do because there’s some bugs we needed fixed (namely the issues with Fault Domain Manager/HA and SSL...
View ArticleHow To Increase Your "% Virtualized" Rates
The #VirtualizeDell tweet chat today got me thinking about what stops most virtualization implementations around 50-75%. These are just some thoughts on ways to kick things loose. @LethaW commented...
View ArticleThoughts on the VMware Code Leak
VMware has confirmed that there was a theft of the ESX source code around April 8th, 2012. I have some non-linear thoughts on this whole thing. First, the code is from 2003 & 2004, and for ESX. ESX...
View ArticleVMware Engineering, Are You Fixing Anything?
I was just reading Josh Andrews’ account of a serious bug still present in the latest releases of VMware vCenter 5.0 (5.0b): This bug has been known for a while and while U1 contained some mentions...
View Article3 Reasons These VMware vTax & Licensing Rumors Are Great
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” – Mark Twain I have to say that, if they’re true, I’ve got three reasons to be happy about the...
View ArticleTips for VMworld US 2012 & San Francisco
As VMworld US 2012 approaches rapidly I’ve been thinking about the things I like to do in San Francisco, and the useful things I have learned over the years. If you have thoughts here about things that...
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VMworld US 2012: Day One
Day one was a weird day, roaming the city before the Solutions Exchange “Welcome Reception.” Was trying for breakfast at The Pork Store on Haight but ended up at Squat & Gobble, which was...
View ArticleTags in VMware vSphere 5.1
Mike Preston has a short post & video about the tag features in VMware vSphere 5.1: Just think, say you have hundreds, or thousands of VMs. You can now more align the way you categorize things...
View ArticleVMmark 2.5
Oooh, a new version of VMmark is out. From Bruce Herndon on the VROOM! blog: I am pleased to announce the release of VMmark 2.5, the latest edition of VMware’s multi-host consolidation benchmark. The...
View ArticleFour Things VMware Engineering Can Give Me For Christmas
I hope everybody out there in the virtualization world is having a great holiday season this year! My religion celebrates Christmas, and these are four things I’d love to see under my Christmas tree...
View ArticleOpenStack Isn’t Our Savior from Lock-In or Support Costs
There is an attitude among some now that OpenStack is, or at least will be, our savior from vendor lock-in in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud space, as well as something that will help...
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VMware vSphere, LLDP, and Juniper EX Switches
One of the vSphere environments I support uses Juniper EX4200 switches for networking. Juniper switches don’t support Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). I love CDP because I can tell exactly what switch...
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Changing vCenter Operations Manager vApp IP Addresses
I needed to renumber one of my VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 instances and it’s not immediately clear how to do it. It isn’t like the other virtual appliances VMware delivers. Here’s how I got...
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VMware & Virsto
Howard Marks has a great piece on VMware buying Virsto over at Network Computing (link is below): Some of my fellow analysts have lumped Virsto into the flash acceleration category along with caching...
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VMware vSphere Web Client & Internet Explorer 10
Being adventuresome and/or an idiot, I upgraded Internet Explorer to version 10. I can report two things: 1. I like it as a speedy web browser, and the vSphere Web Client performance feels vastly...
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VMware vCenter Server Appliance & NTP
If you’re trying to configure NTP on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.1 builds 799730, 880472, or 947940 according to the official documentation you might be seeing what I’m seeing:...
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