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Hello all, as I promised in one of my previous post I have - with the help of TrainSignal Staff - pulled together a free giveaway to 2 lucky winners.  Here's the contest that starts now and finish at 11.59PM of March 16th 2012 Rules 1) comment (since now until 11.59PM of March 16th 2012) this post answering one or more of these questions about VDI (no matter the brand): Why is Virtual Desktops technology important nowadays, in your opinion? What are the most... Read Full Story

Last but not least, why do not cut the virtual power cord of the virtual vSphere 5 host and trigger the HA? Let's try to do it: some Virtual machines are on host ESXi1 and some on host ESXi2. I will power off ESXi2 in the same way it would happen if the power goes away... go to ESXi2 virtual machine and issue the "Power off" command! See what happens in the video below and look what an aggressive mode DRS does when I restart the "malfunctioned" host. Best Viewed in Full Screen Mode... Read Full Story

Hello all, Last week I've got a package from TrainSignal that contains the brand new released training: " VMWare View 5 Essential Training ". This course comes on two DVDs or can be accessed online ( Mobile On-Demand Training Train Where You Want, When You Want ). I've attended the training from my home workstation: the training is very complete and it's a must for both for virtualization starters and virtualization designers/administrators ( as the course cover the upgrade process... Read Full Story

Why stop the fun with just the vMotion when we have shared iSCSI storage. Best Viewed in Full Screen Mode cheers \mf Read Full Story

Hello all, after deploying some Windows XP Virtual machines ( previous post ), have some fun vMotioning a virtual back and forth, while pinging around... Best Viewed in Full Screen Mode cheers \mf Read Full Story

Hello all, after creating the home lab, let's start using it. First of all I start with the cretion of a Windows XP template followed by a "mass" deployment of virtual machines on different iSCSI shared storage. Below the video of the deployment: each virtual machine use a saved customization wizard to sysprep the system and join the domain. Best Viewed in Full Screen Mode cheers \mf Read Full Story

In order to create the home lab I've followed the instructions from " Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab " by Sammy Bogaert so there is no need to rewrite it down Some exceptions to the proposed configuration of the above article were done: I've used Microsoft SQL 2005 instead of SQL 2008 and I've not used the Microsoft iSCSI as shared storage: I've preferred to use Openfiler ESA version 2.99.2 that come with a good web interface to configure it and because I prefer Linux flavours... Read Full Story

As I wrote in my previous post about New year resolution, I would like to build a good enought vSphere home lab. Finally I get it. First of all the list of hardware ingredients: Motherboard: P8Z68-V Asus P8Z68-V Z68 i7/i5/i3 SLI/CrossFire DDR3 CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 3.40GHz Cache 8MB Sandy Bridge LGA1155 BOX Storage: Solid State Disk Intel SSDSC2MH120A2K5 510 SSD SataIII MLC 120GB 2.5" 400/210 Mb/s Memory: Kingston Kit 2 x 4GB DDR3-1333 PC3-10666 Unbuffered for a total of 16 GB other storage... Read Full Story

I've a new sponsor for my blog: it's Digeus Inc. that develops plenty of applications for different usages I've been asked to try out the SnapIT Screen Capture (current release 3.7). The application is easy to use screen capture software which allows you to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, menus, full screen, rectangular regions,web pages and take shots of moving images. - Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard - Automatically copies screenshots to the clipboard... Read Full Story

... the Error: Exception Thrown while executing SQL script from VMware knowledge base: Symptoms Cannot upgrade from vCenter Server 4.1 to 5.0 Upgrading from vCenter Server 4.1 to 5.0 fails You see this error: Exception Thrown while executing SQL script In the %temp%\VCDatabaseUpgrade.txt log file, you see entries similar to: Read all... Read Full Story