24 January, 2012
Eric Siebert has once again started a poll to ask people to vote for their favorite VMware & Virtualization blogs. On his vSphere-Land page you can see the results of the previous voting. This year Eric has added some extra categories for which you can vote. When casting your votes please keep the following in [...]
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by Gabrie van Zanten
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13 January, 2012
Normaly when installing a vSphere environment for new customers, I wait with entering the correct licenses until the environment is ready and can be moved to production. Until today I never ran into any issues with that since most of our customers buy Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition. Today I discovered that after entering a [...]
Filed under: esxi - Licensing - Virtual Center - VMotion / DMotion - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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11 January, 2012
Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double [...]
Filed under: ESX - esxi - Virtual Center - VMware - Workstation
by Gabrie van Zanten
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6 January, 2012
At the Dutch VMUG on December 9th, 2011 I was asked to do a little interview with Alex Rosemblat from VKernel. We spoke about the presentation I did at the VMUG in which I talked about my VMware vSphere Health Check. See the pages about the Health Check in the top menu bar. Also check [...]
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by Gabrie van Zanten
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5 January, 2012
When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the datastores, [...]
Filed under: storage - Virtual Center - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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