July 3rd, 2009
You can change virtual machine disk configurations by adding new disks, changing disk sizes, and changing virtual device node settings. Since VMware ESX 3.5 U3, it’s possible to enlarge the size of a disk while the virtual machine is powered on. When you combine this new feature with the Dell ExtPart utility, you can Extend the OS disk the easy way. The ExtPart utility provides support for online volume expansion of NTFS formatted basic disks.
I recorded a little one minute demo with Jing.
Ga door met lezen van "Pump Up the Volume"
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July 3rd, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I was asking my buddies on Tweet what their favourite way of repartitioning disks were. You know making a partition (any partition whether it it be the C: or D: drive) larger - ideally with the fewest simplest steps. For some years I’ve been using QParted from the rather excellent [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
At August 31, 2009, you can join VMware's development engineers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the first VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day. This event is dedicated to all the developers building solutions on the VMware platforms and is co-located with VMworld 2009. As a "Developer Day", the primary focus is on helping developers integrate with VMware platforms. VMware will cover developer technologies related to all three of VMware's product areas – datacenter, desktop and cloud – in sessions and corresponding demos. A sample of topics to be covered include vSphere Web Services SDK, APIs for managing and automating guest OS, vCloud API introduction, vApps, vStorage, productivity tools and much more. Packaged into beginner and advanced level sessions, the content will be tailored specifically to help developers learn about VMware's integration APIs, understand implementation best practices and see examples. Corresponding demos will provide further opportunity for training and discussion with VMware engineers in small-group settings.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange/register Ga door met lezen van "VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day"
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July 3rd, 2009
If you not familiar with the very good VIOPS website run by VMware - then you should add it to your feed burner ASAP because they are pumping out some very good articles recently.
This article explains covers:
Splitting the vCenter Database:
“A centralized model to manage VMware Infrastructure may not be suitable for some VI customers when [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
A rummour abounds that VMworld Europe is going to change its date from its historic location (in Q2) to be just after VMworld US (Q3). I’m not quite sure about the rationale behind this - but here’s my stab. Firstly, the trip to the US has always been a financial big ask for some in [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
The other day I recieved my invite to the VCP4 Beta Exam. I’ve scheduled the exam for the last day you can take it which is the 17th July. According to the invite email the real deal will be released sometime in August. I got the invite in part through being in the beta programme, [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
This video has done the rounds of the couple of virtualization blogs. But in case you missed it - here it again…
It’s a humours take on the vendor/client relationship. You know if as individuals we behaved like the customers of big business did - what would be like. I get this all the time - [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
After days and days of Microsoft going on and on about VMware FUD. It sound like the easiest way to shut M$ up was just to admit defeat, and kill the story…
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/09/day-two-of-the-scott-drummond-vmware-fud-fiasco.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/17/vmware-fud-fiasco-part-3.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/06/12/vmware-fud-fiasco-final.aspx
Meanwhile a more worrying front has opened up which concerns the status of the now so called “free” ESXi. Two things. Recently the Remote [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
Well, they were the first (as I can recall) to show who you could virtualize ESX 3 on VMware Workstation 6 - and they boys at xtravirt.com have done it again with ESX 4.
The PDF is here… http://xtravirt.com/user?destination=/node/177
BUT, unfortuantely, you do have to register with the site to get the PDF file - unlike (ahem) other [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
This seems to becoming increasing popular. With many ISV falling over themselves to offer management of the virtualization layer from a mobile phone/PDA. Free as a technology preview is VMware’s Mobile Management Appliance:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/vcmobileaccess
Of course that only covers VMware. That’s where people like RoveIT.com and now Hyper9 come in. Hyper9 have released a mobile manager which [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
Tarry Singh has been busy writing a book about Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2.
Here’s a high-level view on what it covers…
Learn quickly to install Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Servers
Learn to manage your Virtual Data Center using Oracle VM Manager
Import VMs from the Web, template, repositories, and other VM formats such as VMware
Learn powerful Xen Hypervisor [...]
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July 3rd, 2009
The concept fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and thus represents an inflection point in the geography of computation and IT service delivery. It tries to replace the traditional ‘desktop-as-a-platform” with “internet-as-a-platform”, which can dynamically provide always on and always available IT services to address a wide range of needs, ranging from scientific research to e-commerce, over the web.
Like all new technologies, they challenge some of our computing wisdom, change our assumptions and brings about a paradigm shift in how computing is provisioned, deployed, and metered.
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July 3rd, 2009
This week someone asked me during the VMTN Podcast on chat if I knew where vmfs-undelete resided in vSphere. I had a look but couldn’t find it either. A quick search gave me this:
vmfs-undelete utility is not available for ESX/ESXi 4.0
ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 3 included a utility called vmfs-undelete, which could be used to recover deleted .vmdk files. This utility is not available with ESX/ESXi 4.0.
Workaround: None. Deleted .vmdk files cannot be recovered.
So if you are currently actively using vmfs-undelete and looking into upgrading to vSphere take this in account!
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July 3rd, 2009
With a complete re-write of the iSCSI portion of the code, ESX 4(vSphere) provides better performance and useful features such as Jumbo Frame support and TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO). There is more reason than ever to consider iSCSI based share storage to house your VMs.
There are many low cost iSCSI storage solutions available such as [...]
Related posts:
- How to configure OpenFiler v2.3 iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESX.
Until rec
- Link – Good Tips for using iSCSI with VMware ESX
Not sure
- Implementing a cost effective HP Proliant based iSCSI SAN solution over using an HP MSA 1500.
Here
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July 3rd, 2009
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July 3rd, 2009
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who voted for NTPRO.NL in Eric Siebert's VMware Top Bloggers election. I was staying at a comfortable third place, but Chad Sakac over at Virtual Geek has beaten me. He went up from the 10th to the 3th place. Now I’m staying at the 4th place and I’m looking for revenge. :-) The almighty Duncan Epping stays at number 1 and Scott Lowe stays at number two. Finally a well deserved place for fellow VCI and friend Mike Laverick, RTFM went up from 8th pace to the 5t place.
@ericsiebert over at http://vsphere-land.com/, thanks for all your efforts.
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July 3rd, 2009
Thank you all who voted – the tally is in, and I’m very honored to be held in this company in the #3 spot!
http://vsphere-land.com/news/and-the-winners-of-the-vmware-top-blog-are.html
To Duncan, Scott, Eric, Mike, Rich, Jason, Gabe, and MikeD – congratulations also, I do indeed look at you as my friends and colleagues.
To all who voted, thank you! It’s a labor of love, and I love the dialog – please continue, and if there are things you want to see discussed, please let me know!
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July 3rd, 2009
Eric Siebert just published the new TOP 10 Blogs. I want to thank every one who voted for me. I’m really surprised with the number of “#1″ votes I got. As you might notice compared to Eric’s own TOP-20 some people have moved up or down. I think the most noticeable is Gabe entering the TOP 10 and Chad going from 10th place to 3rd, but that’s well deserved in my opinion!
[update: Eric just tweeted 11 - 20 so I added these to the list]
- Yellow Bricks – Duncan Epping(1) – 102 first place votes – weighted score of 991
- Scott Lowe’s Blog – Scott Lowe(2) – 39 first place votes – weighted score of 707
- Virtual Geek – Chad Sakac(10) – 61 first place votes – weighted score of 550
- NTPro – Eric Sloof(3) – 12 first place votes – weighted score of 412
- RTFM Education – Mike Laverick(8) – 5 first place votes – weighted score of 232
- VM/ETC – Rich Brambley(6) – 5 first place votes – weighted score of 196
- Virtualization Evangelist – Jason Boche(5) – 4 first place votes – weighted score of 190
- Gabe’s Virtual World(12) – Gabe Van Zanten – 5 first place votes – weighted score of 132
- Virtualization Pro – Various(4) – 3 first place votes – weighted score of 129
- Mike D’s blog – Mike DiPetrillo(7) – 3 first place votes – weighted score of 120
- VMware Tips – Rick Scherer(15)
- The VM Guy – Dave Lawrence(16)
- VCritical – Eric Gray(17)
- Planet VM – Tom Howarth(11)
- Ken’s Virtual Reality - Ken Cline(20)
- Professional VMware – Cody Bunch(09)
- Virtual Future – Sven Huisman (19)
- Rational Survivability – Christofer Hoff(13)
- Virtual Black Hole – Steve Beaver(18)
- Musings of Rodos – Rodney Haywood(14)
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July 3rd, 2009
I’ve been putting together the top 10 and lately the top 20 VMware blogs based on a few factors but this time around I wanted to poll the user community to see what they thought the top VMware blogs were. Well the people have spoken, there were about 350 votes cast, a few duplicates (I track voters IP addresses, you know who you are) and the results have been tabulated and the new top 5 is ready to be announced. I weighted the votes with a #1 vote being worth 5 points, #2 vote worth 4 points, #3 vote worth 3 points, #4 vote worth 2 points and a #5 vote worth 1 point. I was going to put together a little slideshow with the results but have been too busy so without further ado here’s the results and your new top 5:
- Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping - 102 first place votes - weighted score of 991
- Scott Lowe’s Blog - Scott Lowe - 39 first place votes - weighted score of 707
- Virtual Geek - Chad Sakac - 61 first place votes - weighted score of 550
- NTPro - Eric Sloof - 12 first place votes - weighted score of 412
- RTFM Education - Mike Laverick - 5 first place votes - weighted score of 232
Congratulations to the winners! You guys work hard and produce some fabulous posts and you deserve to be on top. Rounding out the top 10 were the following blogs:
VM/ETC - Rich Brambley - 5 first place votes - weighted score of 196
Virtualization Evangelist - Jason Boche - 4 first place votes - weighted score of 190
Gabe’s Virtual World - Gabe Van Zanten - 5 first place votes - weighted score of 132
Virtualization Pro - Various - 3 first place votes - weighted score of 129
Mike D’s blog - Mike DiPetrillo - 3 first place votes - weighted score of 120
I probably won’t get around to updating the vLaunchpad until next week. I’ll be doing this again in 6 months and next time I’ll be using a better survey tool and you’ll get to choose the whole top 20. There are a great many blogs in the VMware community right now and just because you are not on the top 20 right now doesn’t made you are not worthy, just that you have a lot of competition; but bloggers come and go and it’s sometimes hard to devote time to a blog so keep up the great posts and you are sure to make the list someday.
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