In my home lab it sometimes happens that I lose power and then my Iomega IX4-200D will reboot. Often, the ESX hosts I run in my lab have trouble reconnecting to the NFS share on the IX4-200D which will cause my primary VMs to fail. Both my domain controllers, vCenter server, SQL Server and Exchange […]
VMworld 2010: Vote for: Disaster Recovery the Dutch way: Cheap
VMworld 2010 is getting closer and a lot of presentations have been submitted to VMware. Now it is up to the public to decide which sessions they want to see. My colleague Jos Vanaubel and I have also submitted a session, named: “Disaster Recovery the Dutch way: Cheap”. We will show you how to perform […]
VMware vSphere 4 default installation settings
When I was writing an installation document on vSphere I thought and have some friends on twitter check the doc and comment on it. I received a lot of responses and decided to make a blog post out of it, so here it is.
VMware View licensing explained, plain and simple
During new software implementations, licensing is often overlooked or done incorrectly. I regularly visit customers who have either too few or too many licenses — seldom does anyone have the amount they actually need. In my experience, VMware View licensing isn’t any simpler to understand. To save you a headache later on, let’s look at […]
GabesVirtualWorld having some uptime issues
Dear readers, Unfortunately the website is having some issues lately which causes the site to be very slow or even bring the site down. It is a strange memory leak problem that sometimes doesn’t happen for days and then hits me two times a day. Very unpredictable and therefore difficult to solve. Should you experience […]