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Tip: Create an ISO store, no matter what

Sunday, November 9th, 2008, by

In one of our previous projects we suggested a LUN to use for ISO’s. The client said: ‘Well, we don’t need one, we have all our software on network shares and operating systems are deployed by the means of an unattended install with boot from network’.

It didn’t matter how much I talked and how much advantages I could name, they wouldn’t give in.

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Unable to VMotion, unable to disconnect ISO

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008, by

We had a small issue today with a virtual machine at one of our customer sites. We were unable to do a VMotion. The message we got was that there was an ISO image connected to the system.

Well, we tried all the standard things like being tenacious and clicking Yes on the question if I wanted to continue the VMotion (which failed ofcourse) and trying to edit it from within VirtualCenter. Unfortunately the option to edit was grayed out. Hmm..

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