My latest customer was still running on VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 and asked me to upgrade their environment. Their whole environment was running on NetApp storage and for ESX there is a change in the Storage Array Type Policy (SATP) and the Path Selection Policy (PSP) when moving from ESX 3.5 to […]
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VMware vSphere 4 Implementation by Mike Laverick
VMware vSphere 4 Implementation by Mike Laverick http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/ (expected release: Mid Feb 2009) It was spring 2009 when I was asked if I was interested in doing the technical editing of an upcoming vSphere book from Mike Laverick. I have always known Mike as a professional or even expert on VMware (even after 2 nights […]
Homelab for VCP and VCDX
If you want to study for your VCP or VCDX exams, you really need a lab in which you can test what the study material is talking about. Hopefully you have a test environment at work that you can use, but if not, this blog post will help you put together your own homelab. Before […]
DutchVMUG Live blog: Virtualizing Exchange on VMware
Jan Willem Lammers presenting on Virtualizing Exchange on VMware. First he’s checking with the audience on how many mailboxes they are running virtual. Some run 10.000 mailboxes !!! Is Exchange supported? YES !!! Scenario 1: See: Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program. ESX 3.5U2+ and vSphere 4.0 on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007. When certified for Windows […]
Changing patch location of VMware Update Manager
While installing Virtual Center for the first time, I accepted most default settings. After I started using VMware Update Manager, I received errors about lack of diskspace. Turns out that all patches are stored in c:\documents and settings\ something \ something. This ofcourse isn’t what I wanted. I could have selected a different location during […]