Entries by Marco Drost

How you can use DRS groups

As one of many the first thoughts when i heard of DRS groups was what should or could i do with this feature? I know of the DRS groups some time know but i have never seen it in production. Until now! For a customer i am working on en upgrade project of ESX 4 […]

Insufficient video RAM with Virtual Machine

Last week is saw a message in vCenter that i have noticed before: Warning message from <host FQDN>: Insufficient video RAM. The maximum resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to 1176×885. To use the configured maximum resolution of 2560×1600, increase the amount of video RAM allocated to this virtual machine by setting svga.vramSize=”16384000″ […]

German warning in Dutch OS

Dutch version of a Windows 2008 running on a  English ESXi host gives German warning.  When updating the VMtools I go a Warning as expected, because the Virtual machine is Hardware version 4 from a ESX 3.5 host that was moved to a ESXi 4.1.I have done this several time but the strange thing was […]

Replacing a network card of a DC (Virtual Machine)

When you want to replace the old virtual network card for a VMXNET3 network card of a Domain controller (DC) and when the DC is also DNS server (AD integrated) and the only one in the domain you may encounter some problems.  Yesterday i replace the old network card for a VMXNET3 adapter in a […]

vCenter Mobile Access now with HTTPS

In January a wrote a article about  vCMA Configuration plus in this article a wrote about the vCMA appliance an how to add a extra network card.  I noticed at the moment that is was not possible to use HTTPS  this is a serious security risk when publishing the site to the out side. Today […]

Scripted install ESXi 4.1 (partition size)

I am building a scripted installation for a customer. The last time i did this it was for ESX4.0 and i have never done a scripted install with the ESXi implementation until now. When I made a scripted install for ESX i always customize the partitions for the installation like this in the KS.CFG file: […]

VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 Stops During Instalation Booting: MBI-0x00010128, entry=0x0040024a

My vSphere ESXi 4.1 stopped during booting form the ISO file  :   Booting: MBI-0x00010128, entry=0x0040024a.  I had made a ISO with a custom KS.CFG file for scripted installation. I havened seen this message before but i did some digging and found out the the ISO file was corrupted. I build a new one and it […]

vCMA Configuration plus

vCMA or vCenter Mobile Access is a free solution to manage you’re VMware environment for a mobile device. And was on my list for a long time to try but i have made the time until this week. I did not make time because I have a Iphone and always used the vManage app (€ […]

Moving Lab Manager Templates (Storage)

When i was replacing our storage in our Lab environment (VMware Lab manager 4.0)  i got to the point where i must move the templates we have in the environment  I looked in the resources and setting of lab manager (Yes as you i don’t go to the manual first) but there is no option […]

Cloud computing unraveled :)

VMware “Cloud” Opening for VMworld 2010 Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.