Follow up on: Who is stealing my licenses?

30 January, 2009

I really did my homework before posting my previous post “Who is stealing my licenses“, but not good enough it seems. In my post I wrote about not being able to prevent other hosts from taking licenses from your license pool. Well, Eric Gray from V-Critical pointed me to a VMware KB article ( KB: [...]

Who is stealing my licenses?

29 January, 2009

Ever had the situation that you wanted to add an ESX but it reported that it cannot get any license and you are sure there must still be VMware ESX licenses left? Well, it happened to my colleagues and me a number of times.

Setting timezone in ESXi or not

22 January, 2009

We all know how we can set the correct time in ESX and in ESXi. It’s quite simple, just right click the host, go to the configuration tab. There you select “Time configuration” and “properties”.   The configuration screen that appears is self-explanatory and after entering the NTP server addresses you are up and running.   Now [...]

New blog layout

19 January, 2009

I’m proud to present you my new blog layout. I changed the theme to look like a “Film Noir”, a Private Investigator working in the deep of the night writing reports about what he just discovered. In the future I hope I can often present you articles that show you in depth in what’s going [...]

More details about the VMware vExpert status

15 January, 2009

Last night John Troyer released more details about the VMware vExpert program:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2009/01/are-you-a-vexpert-announcing-a-new-community-award.html
Friends, colleagues and your mom and dad can nominate you for the vExpert award. Just have them fill out this form: http://www.vmware.com/communities/vexpert/nomination_form.html
As John writes: