SSH from an ESX host into NetApp OnTAP
Scott Lowe covered this over two years ago but I thought I’d revisit just in case there is someone out there looking to SSH from their ESX hosts directly int...
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VMware vExpert – Nominations Begin
In the twitter world today we found out that the VMware VVP (VMware Virtualization Professional Program) is officially called vExpert. Also heard that voting...
VCDX Certification – Some Details Revealed
Tina from VMware Certification contacted me today to schedule my VCDX Enterprise Administration Exam, boy was I excited. I found out some interesting facts ...
Issue: VMware ESX/ESXi SAN I/O Failure
In the twitter queue today I heard a new VMware KB has been released in regards to a potential SAN failure (FibreChannel and iSCSI). More information and th...
HP MSA1500 Ruined My Customers Week
A customer of mine with a small ESX deployment ran into some major grief this week with their MSA1500. Unfortunately for them, it took 3 days for them to pi...
VMworld 2008 Confessionals
Tony Dunn over at VMware has finally published the VMworld 2008 Confessionals to the vmworld.com website. I encourage you to check all of them out, some are ...
Defunct cimservera processes freeze VMware ESX 3.5
Earlier today Virtual IEF posted a blog about not being able to access an ESX host, not by ssh, not by VIC and not even through vCenter. Evidently this is c...
Virtualization Congress 2009
Most of you already know that Alessandro Perilli from Virtualization.Info is putting on the Virtualization Congress event in Las Vegas this upcoming May. Li...
Happy New Year
A very special Happy New Year to all of my readers, I know its been a little slow the past week but after the holidays things will pick up on the site. I hop...
Hyper-V vs. ESXi – Install and Configure
I came across a nice flash video doing a side by side comparison of the Microsoft Hyper-V install and the VMware ESXi install. The Hyper-V install was using...