Just a quick note to let everyone know that I will be joining Virtensys as a sales engineer in the South Central region. I’m very excited about this opportunity, and am looking forward to moving from the customer side of the table to the vendor side. If you’re a value added reseller, systems integrator, or […]
Archives for February 2011
Upgrade VMware ESXi 4.1 (free) to U1
One of my visitors posed a question in another post of mine on how to upgrade the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 to U1. To prepare for this post, I downloaded ESXi 4.1 from VMware and installed it in VMware Workstation. I also have the 4.1 version of the vSphere client. And without further […]
VMware vSphere 4.1 U1 released February 10th
Big release today for the VMware vSphere 4.1 suite. Depending on the size of the environment you support, you’re either cheering at the small amount of work ahead of you, or sobbing because you just recently got everything updated to 4.1 😉
VMware: Odd issue with NFS datastores
I’ve noticed something odd with a number of clusters that I administer that have NFS datastores. One of the datastores will be duplicated, and end with (1). Typically, only one host has this duplicated datastore. At first I thought it happened because the datastore was mounted twice, once by IP address, and again by hostname/FQDN.
VCAP-DCA Study Guide now available!
As Sean Crookston mentioned in a blog post earlier today, he’s graciously allowed me to take on the task of hosting and continuing to maintain the VCAP-DCA study guide. For now, I’ve posted the Study Guide PDF as it can be currently found on Sean’s site. In the coming days, I will be posting each […]