Yesterday a friend asked me if the VI-client was still not supported on 64-bit OS. I didn’t notice anything in the release notes of Update 2, but actually, it was already supported since Virtual Center 2.5 Update 1.

Starting with VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1, installation of  the VI Client is supported on 64-bit operating systems of Windows that already have the .NET Framework 2.0.

 

If the .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on the 64-bit operating system, the VI Client installation fails with a message similar to:

 

Setup has detected that the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 pre-requisite is not installed on this system. Please install this pre-requisite and try again.

 

You can download the .NET Framework 2.0 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B44A0000-ACF8-4FA1-AFFB-40E78D788B00&displaylang=en

 So yes Coen, it is supported!

One of the things you have to be carefull within a Virtual Infrastructure environment, just as in every other environment by the way, is how your LUNs are balanced over the HBA’s. Especially when you have a pretty dynamic infrastructure you might not always pay attention to this.

My colleague Rob Mokkink has made a pretty nice powershell script that balances LUN’s on the different HBA’s.

What it does :
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The Citrix blog announces the following news:

The public beta is available of the next release of Xenserver. Highlights of the release include:

• Automated high availability
• Windows Server 2008 guest support
• Persistent performance statistics and metrics
• Fully integrated Fibre Channel multipath support with configuration via XenCenter
• VM grouping, searching and tagging
• Email alerts
• Disaster recovery for VM metadata
• Active/active NIC aggregation
• Xen hypervisor updated to version 3.2
• XenConvert P2V migration tool
• Wider hardware support
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I found this interesting article on the VMware Knowledge base site, at least one I really never thought of … a virtual machine doesn’t need a screensaver. Below is exactly told how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »

I received an e-mail from George Kostiuk, President and CEO from emBoot stating the his company has been aquired by Double Take. emBoot is a company has some very interesting products like netBoot/i en Winboot/i which we will discuss in a later stadium. But Double Take is partner of VMware so there’s the link with Virtualization.

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