Monthly Archives: October 2007

What’s New in the ESX Server 3.0.2 Update 1 Release

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 … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Collective

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 … Continue reading

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VMware: how to get more performance counters in VirtualCenter

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 … Continue reading

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ESX Server 3i presentation

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 … Continue reading

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New features in ESX 3.5

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 … Continue reading

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Configure multiple VMware ESX vswitches at once

http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=160 So if you are managing 2 or 3 hosts this is no big deal… But if you have 12-100 hosts and they all need the same switch config….. This is hot..

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Thank you google

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 … Continue reading

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SNMP, Dell OMSA and VMware

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 … Continue reading

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New Theme

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…

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Huntsville AL

Huntsville AL Originally uploaded by Phil Morrison It is pretty up here

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