By admin | December 10, 2008
Why do I always seem to be the bad guy. I know the other guys dont gloss over the limitations or realities of product features on purpose, but sheesh it always seems to be me cutting a swathe of destruction through the marketing hype. Somehow I don’t think I will be in contention for VVP [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Storage, VDI |
By admin | December 3, 2008
Ahhh, the ol’ HA slot size calculations. Many a post has been written, many a document published that tried to explain just how HA slot sizes are calculated. But the one thing missing from most of these, certainly from the VMware documentation, is what behaviour can be expected when there are no resource reservations on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged HA |
By admin | November 20, 2008
Unfortunately I couldn’t break the news when I heard it as I was at work (no way I’m blogging from there, my boss reads this – hi Mark ), but Symantec has updated the original KB article to something much, much more reasonable (although it seems to be offline at the minute). No company is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Miscellaneous |
By admin | November 18, 2008
Make sure you’re sitting down before reading this Symantec KB article which is only 1 month old and clearly states they do _not_ support any current version of their product on ESX if Vmotion is enabled. No, it’s not a joke. It’s a _fucking_ joke. Symantec have essentially pulled together a list of random issues [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged ESX, ESXi |
By admin | October 30, 2008
It seems the ESX 3.5 Update 3 release is imminent, as per some recent updates to the VMware website (screeny below) Wonder if we’ll get any timebomb action this time
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged ESX, ESXi |
By admin | October 23, 2008
It seems the VirtualCenter upgrade process is not getting any better. I can’t for the life of me understand how bugs like this got through with the Update 2 release, but they did and are one of the primary drivers for my company to roll out Update 3 asap (that and the security fixes). But [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Database, VirtualCenter |
