I attended the New England summer VMUG in Brunswick, ME on Thursday and I figured I would tell you all about it. Let me start…
DRS Host Affinity
One new feature I would like to highlight in the vSphere 4.1 announcement is DRS Host Affinity. This feature allows you to set granular policies…
vSphere 4.1 Released!
I am sure by now you have heard the news that VMware released vSphere 4.1. This announcement comes just over a month after the release…
Sluggish Windows Console
The other day, I created a Windows 2008 VM and installed VMware Tools on it. One thing I noticed upon reboot was that the console…
VMware Update Manager Issues
For those of you who have never had the pleasure of patching ESX prior to VMware Update Manager (VUM), be thankful. Prior to its inception,…
ESX + NFS Datastores
Over the last week, I have been in the process of applying the latest patches to one of the VI3 environments I manage. While looking…
Forcing VMware Update Manager to download patches
While many people may already know how to do this, I always seem to forget so I thought it was worth blogging about. VMware Update…
Using VMware Update Manager without DNS
I had an interesting challenge this past week. I had a development environment with a vCenter Server instance hosted on a private network. This private…
Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host
While looking for a VM on a production vCenter Server instance the other day, I noticed that an ESX host had a red exclamation point…
EDA: No COS NICs have been added by the user
I use the ESX Deployment Appliance (EDA) for all of my automated ESX(i) installation needs. The other day, I was attempting to configure an automated…