Whilst doing a little storage vMotion using VMware this week, I got a little lesson in patience from VMware and thought that I would share my experiences to help a few others who are looking at doing storage migrations of larger VM’s. My experiences are with VMware ESX 3.5 and …
Since I was snowed in on Christmas, I got a bit of time to play around with my little server here at home. I got it this fall and installed VMware ESXi on it to do a bit of experimenting on. Today, I was getting a bit of cabin fever, …
I ran into a nasty bug in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 during an implementation at work and thoght I’d share the solution. The bug is a known issue with VMware and I found the documentation with the workaround. The problem goes something like this: after vMotion’ing or starting up …
Yesterday I decided to install the new 11.1 release of openSUSE. Since I didn’t have any spare machines laying around, I threw it on my desktop using VMware Server. The installer was much smoother and a lot more slick than past releases, but probably what impressed me the most was …
With our economy closing in around us, companies are investigating ways to save money and improve efficiencies. Startups that are looking for VC are struggling to find cash to front projects that involve IT projects. One way to conserve costs is to virtualize infrastructure to get the most of hardware …