Phil’s NewsPhlash

Go here to read the full release notes.
This release of VMware ESX Server offers the following improvements:

Support for selected servers based on the Intel Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series processors. Refer to the Systems Compatibility Guide for ESX Server 3.x for information on which servers are supported.
Driver updates for the megaraid_sas, bnx2, cciss, and forcedeth drivers. [...]

We are baaaaack!!!

A year ago I started working for a new company called Collective Technologies. A while later we merged with MTI and attempted to merge the two companies. Well… if you have not heard, MTI just closed up shopRead their press release here

To that end, Collective has reformed and we are back [...]

VMware: how to get more performance counters in VirtualCenter

Found this and it is blogworthy enough to repost here.

Ever wondered why you could select gazillion performance counters in real-time, but only 1 or 2 counters when selecting Per Day/Per Week/Per Month/Per Year/Custom? Here is the solution: in the VIClient, go to VirtualCenter Management Configuration and then [...]

Loads of good information on the next generation of hypervisor.

32 meg footprint which they say does not rely on a “general purpose OS” which means they have done away with Redhat I assume…
Multi-core processors
Extra memory banks for larger memory configs (at lower cost they say)
More NICs and PCI slots….
Diskless….

Check out page 11 where they talk [...]

From things I have found out on the net…
This is a good read.
They are FINALY bringing what they call “Vmotion Storage” where you can change the datastore that your VM uses without having to shut it down and do a migrate.. Yippie!

Also new HA features… Read the snippit from the above link.

Last he end [...]

Thanks to google.com I was able to recover a blog post I made right after I rebuilt the site, but right before the site got trashed and I restored from backup again..

The new install of wordpress must have had google.com scan and record this post immediately as it was only live for 5 min before [...]

If you are using VMware ESX on Dell hardware you need to make sure you have the OpenManage agents installed on the host so that you can get hardware alerts. That said, I ran into some issues last week making six new ESX hosts talk back to the central OMSA server and I found this [...]

I know, it sucks… But something is broken with the other one and I dont have time to fix it…. So rather than everyone not being able to see it, I changed it…

Huntsville AL

Originally uploaded by Phil Morrison

It is pretty up here