Archive for the ‘Gabes Virtual World’ Category

[Wishlist] datastore maintenance and categories

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Just a short post on some thoughts I had on improvements for VMware vSphere when I wanted to delete a datastore holding 10 VMs. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to put a datastore in maintenance... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, ...

VMware Capacity Planner troubleshooting tips

Monday, March 1st, 2010

My last VMware Capacity Planner job with a customer was a little cumbersome. The customer had around 350 systems spread all over the world and links between them with high latency which normally is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...

Assigning VLAN / Portgroup permissions in vCenter 4

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Something I have been wanting since Virtual Center 2.5 / ESX 3.x is VLAN permissions. I would like to be able to allow certain admins to connect VLANs (actually to be 100% correct I should call them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...

GabesVirtualWorld moved to new hosting provider

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Dear readers, I have just finished the transition of this blog to a new hosting provider, which also happens to be my new employer. As from today your no longer connecting to the USA when visiting my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, ...

News from VMware’s Partner Exchange Keynote

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Twitter is a great tool if you’re not in Vegas and still want to know what happened at VMware’s Partner Exchange. All the info posted below is info I picked up from twitter, so be aware... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, ...

Licensing problems with VMware VIEW4

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Recently my colleague Jon Klaus was installing VMware VIEW4 with a customer as he ran into a problem. In his setup there where two ESX hosts that each held 10 VDI VM’s and when putting one host into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Putting your storage to the test – Part 2 NFS on Iomega IX4-200D

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

After performing the tests with iSCSI and discussing the results with a friend of mine, I was a little disappointed as it seemed that the IX4 didn’t seem to perform as well as his system. Biggest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, ...