After starting my new job, I was given a number of servers, a switch, and one of our I/O virtualization appliances to be used for a variety of things like hands-on labs at VMUGs, or onsite customer proof of concepts, etc. Getting this kit was a small problem, as I didn’t have anywhere to put […]
A change of pace, and a new workplace!
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 […]
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 ๐
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.