I’ve been using the ESX Deployment Appliance for a while now and really, really love it. One thing that I have had to do though is to change the regional settings and keyboard settings to be UK based instead of US based for the deployed ESX installations.
It’s not difficult to do so here’s how:
Log [...]
I had a customer that had a requirement to backup the ESX Service Console settings and wanted to know the best files to backup. I suggested that it may be more prudent to create unattended installation media to make restores more seamless. This took a turn and I was asked to make a single CD [...]
Daemon Behr has written a nice and succinct article on when and how to use more than one virtual CPU in a Virtual Machine.
A few of the highlights:
Be very selective with vSMP only use it when applications can take advantage
Don’t assign a VM the same amount of vCPUs as you have pCPUs
Remember to change HALs [...]
As most people will know by now there is a serious issue with licensing in the latest version of ESX 3.5 Update 2, which causes valid licenses to expire today (12th August).
The implications here being:
No VMotion
No DRS
Inability to power on of machines that are not already powered on
The solution is to disable NTP and manually [...]
Eric Siebert has compiled two more excellent Top Ten lists:
Storage in VMware
Get More Technical with VMware
Not much more to say, just that they are as excellent as I’ve come to expect.
Richard Bramley has written another excellent article that has stoked up some helpful comments as well.
It discusses the very useful RAMCheck tool in ESX that will check for faulty memory. I have used the utility a few times and it turns out, courtesy of a reader comment, that it has been removed from ESX 3.5. [...]
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