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VMware vSphere clustering Q&A (VSP1682)

Erik Scholten — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:58:59 +0000

Today I attended session VSP1682 ‘VMware vSphere clustering Q&A‘ hosted by Frank Denneman, Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti. After a short introduction the Q&A started and below you will find my top 10 questions. Q1. Are the old, vSphere 4, constraints in vSphere 5 still current? Until vSphere 5 the best practice is [...]

by Erik Scholten

Waiting is over – download vSphere 5 now!

Erik Scholten — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:19:03 +0000

After the release on July 12th, you can now download VMware vSphere 5 and enjoy the 150 new features. You can find the downloads here. For more information visit: VMware ESXi and VMware ESX Info Center VMware vSphere 5 release notes. If you want to upgrade your existing VMware vSphere installation, check out my previous [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: Upgrade to vSphere 5

Erik Scholten — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:26:56 +0000

On July 12th, VMware announced the release of vSphere 5. With the release comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation. However, there are a few caveats: vSphere 5 is the first version which comes in a ESXi version ONLY! ESXi 5 is available in an embedded or installable version. If you’re running ESX 3.x [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to calculate electrical costs for cooling and power consumption

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:59:55 +0000

For putting together a business case costs and revenues are an important part of it. If you want to calculate the direct resource costs associate with hosting a server in your data center, you want to know the direct power consumption by the server in electrical costs and the costs associated with cooling the environment [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

ESXi 4.1 installation fails – Unable to find the system image

Erik Scholten — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:19:38 +0000

Earlier this week I already told you that I’ve build a new ESXi whitebox but I had some problems installing it. OK, first of all, what was the situation? I wanted to install VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 to a USB stick which is VMware certified.I plugged the USB stick into one of the USB ports [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: build an ESXi whitebox

Erik Scholten — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0000

Last week I decided to buy a new lab server and I doubted between a HP or Dell mini server or an ESXi whitebox. Because most mini servers only have 8GB memory, I decided to collect specific parts to build my own VMware ESXi whitebox. To find parts which are compatible with VMware ESXi 4.1, [...]

by Erik Scholten

Can we beat Kasparov with a single virtual machine?

Erik Scholten — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:58:52 +0000

14 years ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue II chess-computer won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer achieving 11.38 GFLOPS running 30 parallel RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system nodes, with each node [...]

by Erik Scholten

eLearing: Transition to ESXi Essentials

Sander Martijn — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:23:43 +0000

Yesterday Anne Jan linked me to an article on the VMware website which contained information on a free online training course. The title is Transition to ESXi Essentials. The course is dedicated to ESXi and depending on your learning style it takes about 3 hours to complete. It’s broken up in several chapters so you don’t have [...]

by Sander Martijn

First impression of the PXE Manager for vSphere

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:01:52 +0000

I just fiddled somewhat with the ‘fling’ from the VMware site: PXE Manager. Well, if you ask me, it’s not just a ‘fling’, but it is really, really useful. It’s easy to install and easy to use. Here’s the summary from the ‘fling’: PXE Manager for vCenter enables ESXi host state (firmware) management and provisioning. Specifically, [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

VMware released vSphere 4.1 Update 1

Erik Scholten — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:20 +0000

Tonight VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server 4.1. Update 1 for ESX/ESXi contains a few new/improved features: Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot option can protect ESXi in some cases where system binaries [...]

by Erik Scholten