ESX/ESXi
London VMUG – My Presentation
Yesterday was a fantastic VMware user group, definitely my favourite one so far, lots of great content from some fantastic people and some real rockstars (I think that is the 2010 word for Guru’s) like Mike Laverick, Carter Shanklin (Carter USM), Stuart Radnidge and many many more. I was privileged to open the show with [...]
Virtualising XenApp – What’s the magic number ?
In the past I have virtualised a number of different applications and types of servers, among these have been several Citrix WinFrame/MetaFrame/Presentation Server or as it is currently known XenApp Servers. Recently I have been asked about this on a number of occasions and the question is always the same: How many users can you [...]
PowerCLI: Configured Maximums – Storage
With vSphere introduced some new maximum’s which we not only have to memorise for the exams but also have to keep in mind when designing and using your infrastructure. In the back of your mind when adding a new host to a cluster you should always be thinking, how many hosts should be in this [...]
PowerCLI: Changing a VM IP Address with Invoke-VMScript
One of the cmdlets that has been much improved in the recent version of PowerCLU 4 U1 is the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet, This cmdlet runs a script or command inside the guest OS of each of the specified virtual machines. To run Invoke-VMScript, the user must have read access to the folder containing the virtual machine [...]
Learn PowerCLI by video
So you want to learn PowerCLI, if your not a book kinda person and haven’t purchased Hal Rottenberg’s great book, Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell then there is great news for you. Trainsignal have let it slip that coming soon to a website near you will be…. Managing VMware vSphere with PowerCLI – Hal [...]
ESX4 U1 & the Intel 82576 Gigabit Network Adapter
Previously when installing ESX it has picked up all devices and automatically installed everything needed to use the server as an ESX host, recently whilst installing a new Dell R710 (a great review of the server can be found on the techhead.co.uk site here) I came across an issue where the additional Network Adapter in [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide – Available in Europe
The vSphere Quick Start Guide is doing well, I don’t think we will quite take the Christmas Number 1 best seller slot but still, thanks to anyone who has purchased the book so far and a bigger thanks if you have left us a review or published a blog post, its always good to hear [...]
Boot from Paravirtualized SCSI Adapter
From vSphere U1, VMware now support booting from a Paravirtualized SCSI adapter, why would you want to do this ? Well why not, check out the VMware Performance Blog where VMware have tested this adapter and shared their results. VMware were able to achieve 350,000 I/O operations per second on a single vSphere host (ESX [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here
Its here, I’m an author, watch out JK Rowling ! Its been a while coming but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is now available to buy on Amazon (US), we are working at getting it on the UK site but I’m just pleased to see it out there and available to buy. This book [...]
ESX 3.5 Update 4 Released
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 has been released, find the official download link here and the documentation here.
