One Of The Most Powerful Shuttle Barebone For My VMware Home Lab from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

26 August 2010 – 6:19 pm Inspired by an article at NTPRO.NL I decided that my VMware home lab was in need of a major upgrade but I could not make my mind up on which Shuttle barebone model I would buy. Time passed on and then Shuttle came out recently with the SX58J3 model. An extreme gaming PC, an all [...]

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All NIC And iSCSI Port Pairs To a Single vSwitch – Don’t Forget The Binding! from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

23 August 2010 – 12:03 pm In an iSCSI setup (software initiator or HBA), if your host has more than one pNIC, there are two types of configuration you can build. First one a two vSwitches type of configuration where you have a separate vSwitch for each network adapter and VMKernel iSCSI port pair in a 1:1 mapping as shown on the picture below, The [...]

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vSphere 4.1 iSCSI Advanced Settings And Their Meanings from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

19 August 2010 – 11:16 am You may have noticed that in vSphere 4.1 you have an Advanced button available in the iSCSI Initiator Properties window. Many of these advanced settings are just unknown to me so I started googling for more info and here are their meanings: Header Digest – Can take values Prohibited, Discouraged, Preferred or Required. The setting increases [...]

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Installing Oracle Database Client 10g Release 2 (10.2) on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

9 August 2010 – 8:02 pm Whenever you try to install Oracle Database Client 10g Release 2 (10.2) on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 it fails miserably with the following error message: Looks like the Oracle Universal Installer doesn’t support yet Windows 2008 R2 x64  although it does support Windows 2008 x64 No worries, here is a little hack to save [...]

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Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1 from DeinosCloud, Gabes Virtual World, virtual machine (Gabe)

4 August 2010 – 8:28 am With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would...

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VMware ESXi4.1 on a SD Card – How To from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

29 July 2010 – 8:56 am This is not a secret anymore for a long time now and there are many sites out there that will show you how to install VMware ESXi3.5 and ESXi4.0 on a USB key. My favorite article about this topic remains Duncan Epping’s article at yellow-bricks.com Now with ESXi4.1 there is a minor change, the file [...]

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Understanding VMFS Block Size And File Size from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

26 July 2010 – 9:27 am I was asked recently a question about the implications of the Block Size and the File Size when formatting a VMFS datastore and my answer was partially wrong. So I decided to deep dive into this matter over the week-end and came up with an article and a video which I hope will clarify the link between [...]

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Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi from DeinosCloud, Gabes Virtual World (Gabe)

26 July 2010 – 8:23 am With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this...

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Upgrade ESXi4.0 to ESXi4.1 – The Unofficial Method from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

19 July 2010 – 12:04 pm Now that vSphere ESXi 4.1 is out and available for download here, I wanted to upgrade my home lab with the latest release. Whilst ISO’s got downloaded, I searched VMware KB for any tips on how to perform the upgrade and I found KB1022140: Upgrading ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 The KB article comes with a table which outlines what [...]

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ESXi 4.1 – Major Security Issue – The Sequel And The Workaround from DeinosCloud, Uncategorized (Didier Pironet)

18 July 2010 – 2:39 am Twitter is good! Twitter is great! Today, late in the evening my time, I started to read tweets about a major security issue within ESX4.1.0. It all started with a post from nirvy in a VMware forum followed by an article and a tweet from lamw that I encourage you to read at virtuallyGhetto.com before [...]

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