For my home lab I’m always testing several configs, creating VMs, removing VMs, reinstalling hosts and breaking them on purpose. Sometimes I have 40 VMs running and a week later I’m down to just 5. This week I stumbled upon something strange when cleaning up unused VMs. On my 3 hosts cluster I had enabled […]
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Using Linux shell scripts to automatically create VMware ESX 3.5 hosts
On the SearchVMware section of TechTarget.com a new tip of mine is published. “In any VMware ESX environment, VMware ESX hosts within the same cluster must be configured the same way. If a host in a cluster is not properly configured, basic networkingoperations such as or VMotion will fail. Manually installing and configuring new hosts […]
VMware and performance, a strange combination
Most consultants that are deep into virtualization and VMware in specific, know that VMware has a special policy on publishing performance data. By EULA it is not allowed to publish your own performance results if VMware hasn’t had the chance to check your test plan and configuration. Not many other products in the IT have […]