Just before I was heading home, my colleague asked me to assist with a VM he couldn’t power on anymore. Seemed a customer had tried to commit a snapshot and the job timed out. The customer then tried some other things and suddenly the VM was down. While trying to power on, there was an […]
Virtualizing a domain controller, how hard can it be?
For an upcoming project I was preparing to P2V a domain controller and found a lot of “info” on this subject which got me thinking. Everybody is talking about all the dangers related to P2V-ing a domain controller but let’s be honest, when you look closely at the problems most people are talking about, are […]
Elevator pitch: What is virtualization?
Don’t we all know the situation when you’re at a party and some beautiful woman asks you: “What do you do for a living?”. After telling them that you are a specialist in the field of virtualization and mostly work with VMware products, virtual switches, VMs, VMotions, etc, you get that glazing stare and they’ll soon hop […]
VMware blog competition – Vote for your favorite blogs
It’s that time of year again where Eric Siebert opens his “Top 25 VMware virtualization blogs” voting. Through his website you can select your best 10 blogs on virtualization and I hope you consider my blog as one of those 10. Read the contest rules at: http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-the-top-25-vmware-virtualization-blogs.html In short: Pick your top 10 and rank […]
Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1
With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would occur. However, after reading the whitepaper “Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX 4” I learned some more details I want to share […]