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.
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.
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.
I juste received an e-mail from Veeam that their next version of Veeam Backup has been released.
Here’s the content of this e-mail:
You asked for it, you’ve got it!
At Veeam Software we take feedback from our customers and partners very seriously. ”Listening to you, building the tools you need” is our motto, and we mean it.
Today’s release of Veeam Backup version 2.0 is evidence of our commitment, as it includes major new features suggested by you, our customers. These include:A new optimized engine for up to five times faster backup and replication than the previous version
Windows VSS support
ESXi support
Comprehensive real-time reporting on job activity and statistics
On one of my previous articles Sven, who is actually a colleque of mine, asked if it would be possible to remove snapshots which were left unaccounted for. I reacted is a simple way: yeah, of course and as a matter of fact is is very easy. I really must say the guys from the VI Toolkit have done a great job on maki Read the rest of this entry »
In the light of the offically released Virtual Infrastructure Toolkit I decided to create a simple powershell script. I’m planning to create more powershell scripts and post them on virtualfuture.info.
The first one is a script which can remove the connected iso files from the CD drive. Some administrators do not disconnect a CD drive when the have finished use the ISO, the side effects of this behaviour are: the VM regurally polls the CD drive which creates a slight overhead and a VMotion may fail. This script can run unattended e.g. every night so even when an ISO file remains mounted it is ejected everynight. Read the rest of this entry »
After I upgraded my ESX test box from ESX3 update1 to update2 my Virtual WSUS server complained about lack of disk space. One of the improvements in Update2 would be extending disks on running machines, so I thought: “What the heck, a great chance to give that a try”.
So I went into the properties of the VM and specified a larger disksize for the WSUS download disk; the “New Size” box was previously grayed out under Update1 now I could specify a larger size.
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