Although I am a VMware oriented I follow some blogs (RRS feeds) that have Microsoft (read Hyper-V) in their vision. It is nice to know what other virtualization suppliers are doing and you never know when you might need de knowledge to make a right decision. One of the Blogs I follow is the blog […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
In every project there comes a time when some people try to come out clean so they don’t have any responsibility for the reason why the project is delayed or even fail. This is not the way it should but when a rat is cornered it is a dangerous animal! People make mistakes so why […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Today i did a P2V (physical to virtual conversion) of our old Virtual Center server (2.5 u3). We wanted to keep the machine for a little while because the machine had some additional tooling installs for the old environment and the hardware got a new destination. The old hosts where already managed by the new […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
To Google for answer, mailing with Google, sharing (photo’s e.g.) with Google I do it en so do a lot of people and we all do it for free! Or don’t we? In Holland it a saying “voor niets gaat de zon op” meaning noting is for free. And this is the same when using […]
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 installing vCenter on Windows 2008 R2 and you’re planning to connect to a Windows 2008 SQL server you must use a 32 bit ODBC DNS. This is old news for the most of us. But When your planning to use the Windows 2008 (R2) as the platform for vCenter you must first install the […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
In my last blog i told that i had some issues with lost of LUN after the installation of the HP agent within a ESX 4.0 update 1 host. As i expected in my blog about lost iSCSI LUN during hp agent installation the cause is the storage agent that is installed with the installation […]
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 was installing a HP agent (hpmgmt-8.3.1) and following a instruction i had used successfully before and during the installation i made the snmpd.conf so everything works as planed (that was wishful thinking) with enough empty chairs around me somebody cam and visit me yeb it was good old Murphy! I finish the installation tested […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Some times when i am at a place without immediate internet access, Yes the do still exist, I fall back on the downloaded VMware documentation on my laptop. This is not always the latest and greatest and some time it is not on my laptop. And i am not the guy the keeps tracks on […]
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 installed a brand new ESX 4.0 Host and i did some configuration changes that required a reboot. As usually a put the host in maintenance mode and gave the system a reboot within the virtual infrastructure client. The nice thing with the new version is that the client will automatically reconnect to the […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.