Category Archives: General

Once again there are files missing from the Cd I hand out, this week it’s the example solutions from the networking lab, these are attached.

Today I achieved a new trainer status, I am now a Microsoft Certified Trainer.  With Microsoft entering the hypervisor based virtualisation market it’s a god time to get into teaching their material as a compliment to the VMware courses I … Continue reading →

You should by now know that I like unattended installs of ESX, largely because I know that I don’t follow instructions, even the ones I write. One of the labs in the VI3  DSA course is to do an unattended … Continue reading →

A much discussed feature is acually present in the VI Client, that is the ability to have the local userID and password automatically used to authenticate against the VC server.  According to this post it is as simple as changing … Continue reading →

I was worried about the health of my VMs after I upgraded (rebuilt, not an in-place, never in-place upgrade) to ESX3.5 and VC 2.5. My VC VM was using 100% cpu and my VI client connections were timing out, also … Continue reading →

I found a weakness in my use of a windows server to my NFS datastores when I went to migrate my SBS server to the NFS datastore as a part of my VI3.5 upgrade. In an earlier post (Windows NFS … Continue reading →

The VI3 Install & Config course has a slide which talks about setting up the Service Console networking for HA.  The key design item is to ensure that the SC network is fault tolerant but is still a representation of … Continue reading →

In the first part of this series I looked at using the new Pocket ACE feature of VMware workstation 6 and the ACE add-on.  My conclusion was that the install process needed work. The next tool I have looked at … Continue reading →

In the VI3 Install & Config class I recommend to students that they use a physical windows machine to hold a library of ISO images to install and update VMs from.  I recommend that they use Microsoft’s Services for Unix … Continue reading →

VMware’s converter product does an excellent job of converting existing physical servers into Virtual machines.However those who have read earliier posts will know it’s not perfect,some servers don’t P2V well, so what shouldn’t be P2Vd?Domain ControllersFirst off domain controllers, lots … Continue reading →