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#vmware #vSphere Joe tweeted this link (http://twitter.com/joewells/status/18435437921) and I wanted to share it further: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/vsphere-41-is-released.html As well as this: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/changes-to-vcp-exam-due-to-vsphere-41.html

This is quite funky, up on VMsecured.com they have created a quote tool for VMware software! http://www.vmsecured.com/

#Powershell Funky  … http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/10/06/vsphere-powercli-commandlet-poster/ Pablo Roesch, VMware, has put out a poster that their marketing department did, that has a listing of the PowerCLI commandlets.  This is a very useful tool for anyone working in PowerShell using the VMware Toolkit for ...

The last day, and the sun is shining outside which is always a plus.  So lessons learnt for the day … If your Hyper-V server is in a workgroup and SCVMM is part of a domain, you need to do an agent install and treat it as if it’s in a perimeter network :-| Lots and lots of Powershell ;-) need to check out … Cluster Shared Volumes … they ...

#Hyper-V So its Wednesday and day 3 … today was more SCVMM Just great, Windows Update bounced my laptop and lost this post .. Greeaaaat. So let me try and remember .. Oh, what is cool is that you can create a Windows 2008 Failover cluster.  You can then install hyper-v on both nodes of the cluster.  Now when the cluster is created you ...

Another day and some more learning.  So my ramblings from today are: Have a server, take a snapshot and install an SP ..test it and then is okay, merge the snapshot.  If not, remove the snapshot and you back. Nothing else really shone out, so this is nice and short

I am on a Hyper-V Training course for the rest of this week at QA in London and wanted to share some “stuff” that came up today with you all. The course combines 6331A Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager [3 Day Course] and 6422A Implementing and Managing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V [3 Day Course] in to a single ...

#Exchange2010 Source: http://kennethvanditmarsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/vmotion-and-exchange-2010/ Now this is very very interesting and may explain why my DAG databases keep failing over.. … vSphere Update 1 states: Enhanced Clustering Support for Microsoft Windows – Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) for Windows 2000 and 2003 and Windows ...

How funky is this Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-nz/sysinternals/ee656415%28en-us%29.aspx Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other ...

This is a bit scary Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms: Upgrade operation may fail or hang and can result in an incomplete installation Upon reboot, the host ...

Thanks Virtual Commander for the links: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_u1_vc40_u1.html -and- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/11/20/vsphere-esxvcenter-4-0-update-1/ What's new? The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX: VMware View 4.0 support ...

Thanks to Ash for pointing me at this: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_perf_exchange-storage-protocols.pdf Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a storage intensive workload used by a large number of IT organizations to provide email for their users. In this paper, a large installation of 16,000 Exchange users was configured across eight ...

You know how on a Windows 2003 server, when you install it on ESX, and you put the tools on, you get the annoying prompt to set Hardware acceleration to Full. Well when you install Windows 2008, you don't get that prompt and the mouse is really sluggish. Well thanks to Ash for pointing out that you need to set the Hardware acceleration to Full. ...

How hard do you think this would be?  well damm hard in fact.  So here is the deal.  I have a Mac Pro running Windows 2008 and VMWare Server.  I had an issue with my graphics card, so I moved my VMWare stuff to Tosh Laptop. So my graphics card is now okay and I removed VMWare and installed Hyper-V.  My plan was to migrate ...

this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch).  As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of last week strange things started to happen.  Nothing was logged in any event log, but ...