VMware isn’t very keen on sharing some of the details of ESXi, so it’s very nice that some of us virtualizing geeks are hacking their software to find new features. One of the major problems with ESX(i) is the support for storage controllers – quite a few have discovered that their controller isn’t supported. Well, …
Category Archive: VMware
VMware ESX, ESXi, VirtualCenter, Server, Infrastructure
Aug
26
2008
Aug
25
2008
ESX(i): Resource pools
Okey, I have to admit it: I have a lot of CPU power just laying around unused. To be exact, I have around 24GHz available after my two critical hosts have gotten their share. So, I’m testing the resource pools available for distributing resource shares to different virtual machines. The setup is pretty easy: I …
Aug
25
2008
VMware Server 2.0 RC2
Just a quick update on the VMWare Server: The 2.0 RC2 is released and ready to be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/beta/server/ :-) The list of updates to this release includes support for Firefox 3 (finally…), support for SCSI pass-through devices so that you can use your tape drive in a virtual machine, disk expansion on the …
Aug
18
2008
My project
So, ok, the new semester started today. As always, I’m a bit lazy on the first day so I took the opportunity to work from home instead of going to school. It turned out be a rather ok day when I finally got out of bed. I’ve made a quick front page and a suggestion …
Aug
18
2008
Recent events
There have been a lot of buzz about the latest VMware bug. As always, there is nearly a competition about who screams loadest about “the big catastrophy”. The bug, which was a time bomb left in the code after the bug testing period, make it impossible to power on new virtual machines after August 12th. …
Jul
31
2008
Solved: Update Manager FQDN
As reported earlier, the Update Manager (UM) does not use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) when it connects to the UM server. The update will therefore fail if you don’t have the UM Server on the same search domain as the ESX(i) servers you are trying to update. After reading some comments on the …
Jul
31
2008
Serial Console on VMWare ESX(i)
Just to follow up on the post about Serial console over IPMI: The ESX(i) supports serial console, but you have to configure it under “Configuration –> Advanced Settings –> VMKernel –> Boot”. I didn’t get a real console on the VMware ESXi (I didn’t try to hard neither), but I got the debug output from …
Jul
28
2008
VMware ESXi available
As said earlier, VMware is releasing ESXi for free starting today. The CD image is available from VMWare’s page. This is a great offer from VMware :-D
Jul
27
2008
VirtualCenter Update Manager problems
After upgrading from 2.5 Update 1 to Update 2 the Update Manager failed to scan hosts. It said that the metadata was missing. The metadata is supposed to be downloaded by the update manager on a regular basis and it worked nicely in Update 1. What puzzled me even more was that both my VI …
Jul
27
2008
ESX(i) 3.5 Update 2 is out!
In my previous post I asked for hot cloning/backup and IPMI support. What I didn’t know at the time of writing was that VMWare already had plans for implementing these features. Reading through the changelog for VMware ESX(i) 3.5 Update 2 I notice that both IPMI support and the hot migrating is listed as two …
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