When I configured a new template in VMware Labmanager I got a blue screen of dead with a stop code 0x0000005D. I knew that de ISO I was using was fine because i used it with in vCenter a few times. The solution is easy I just forgot to choose the right virtual hardware profile. […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
SolarWinds has released a new VM Console. I think it is a nice an handy tool when you don’t want to give away your full vCenter server console or when you don’t have a vCenter server. You can add vCenter server or several hosts to the tool. But when users with restricted right login this […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
I just got a tweet form Henk Arts he tweeted this You tube film i think it is brilliant ! also look closely at the (sub)titles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl1f1-Da0OI&feature=youtu.be 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.
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Last week i add a new NFS storage to our environment and from that moment on i got some strange situations. The storage is intended for our lab but production continues to grow so with that in mind i wanted to add the storage to all ESX hosts and not only the host that is […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
When I add a new host (ESX4.1) in my VMware Cluster and i wanted to do a vMotion to the new host a got a error at 78%. The popup box says : A general system error occurred sources detected that destination failed. when i ask my friend Google a got a hit at vmfaq. […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Storage is one of the 4 core design parts that has a big impact on the performance and the cost of a virtual environment. I was looking for a way get some demands for the storage i wanted in my environment. When you talk about storage demands you talk about IOps. IOps stands for Input […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
When you want to do a P2V ( physical to virtual ) migration Microsoft expect you to have a or build a management environment for it. This is great because you can monitor the environment before you turn it in to a virtual one.This is when time is on your site. In the picture below […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Sometimes it happened that you’re vCenter server service (vpxd.exe) stops working or won’t start and you are the one to find out why. It is possible to dig in to the log files and try to find out what went wrong at a certain point in time. But the vpxd-*.log ( * =0 to 9) […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Last months I did an infrastructure migration project. This time I was not one of the techies that did the job but one of the people who stood beside the project to assist where necessary (making technical decide and giving a hand when needed) With the evaluation and communications to the end users they made […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
VMware orientated people know the VMware update manager. With this tool/plug-in in vCenter you can automate patch management of VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines which eliminate manual tracking and patching. This also works for offline virtual machines. For Hyper-v Microsoft got the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) which works in combination with WSUS or […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.