http://blog.vmpros.nl It's all about virtualization... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:32:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/12/02/vmware-console-setup-configure-or-troubleshoot-the-esx-service-console/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/12/02/vmware-console-setup-configure-or-troubleshoot-the-esx-service-console/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:04:49 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/12/02/vmware-console-setup-configure-or-troubleshoot-the-esx-service-console/ Oke.. I didn’t know this feature, last week a colleague consultant shows me a little menu to (re-)configure the ESX service console. With the command “console-setup” you can add or delete some vSwitches, create a new SC and view current configurations. If you never worked with ESX CLI then will this a nice feature to [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/12/02/vmware-console-setup-configure-or-troubleshoot-the-esx-service-console/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/04/vmware-hp-management-agent-an-active-virtual-machine-ip-has-been-detected-on-host/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/04/vmware-hp-management-agent-an-active-virtual-machine-ip-has-been-detected-on-host/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:55:30 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/04/vmware-hp-management-agent-an-active-virtual-machine-ip-has-been-detected-on-host/ Today I was busy to to install some HP Managent Agents 8.60 on a DL380 G6, after entering the host in maintenance mode, extracting the HP software in the /tmp/ folder I was ready to install the agent. By running the command “./install860.sh –install” I received the warning that some VM’s still running and must [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/04/vmware-hp-management-agent-an-active-virtual-machine-ip-has-been-detected-on-host/feed/ 3 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/07/15/vmware-esx-and-esxi-4-1-comparison/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/07/15/vmware-esx-and-esxi-4-1-comparison/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:12:11 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/07/15/vmware-esx-and-esxi-4-1-comparison/ Capability VMware ESX VMware ESXi Service Console Service Console is a standard Linux environment through which a user has privileged access to the VMware ESX kernel. This Linux-based privileged access allows you to manage your environment by installing agents and drivers and executing scripts and other Linux-environment code. VMware ESXi is designed to make the [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/07/15/vmware-esx-and-esxi-4-1-comparison/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/04/09/vmware-how-to-downgrade-vm-hardware-level-7-to-4/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/04/09/vmware-how-to-downgrade-vm-hardware-level-7-to-4/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:32:18 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/04/09/vmware-how-to-downgrade-vm-hardware-level-7-to-4/ After some problems with my ESX 4.0 host I want to move some critical VM’s to my ESX 3.5 u4 host.. but my upgraded hardware level (7) is not compatible with my ESX 3.5 u5 host. The following is a step-by-step guide on how to perform this downgrade: I want to downgrade my Windows 2008 [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/04/09/vmware-how-to-downgrade-vm-hardware-level-7-to-4/feed/ 11 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/03/29/vmware-esx-4-0-down-after-update-fsck-ext3-unable-to-resolve-uuid/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/03/29/vmware-esx-4-0-down-after-update-fsck-ext3-unable-to-resolve-uuid/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:50:44 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/03/29/vmware-esx-4-0-down-after-update-fsck-ext3-unable-to-resolve-uuid/ After upgrading the VMware ESX 4.0 host with VMware Update Manager I received in the boot loader a few errors: fsc.ext3: Unable to resolve ‘UUID=xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx’ *** An error occurred during the file system check. *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell. To resolve this issue: - [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/03/29/vmware-esx-4-0-down-after-update-fsck-ext3-unable-to-resolve-uuid/feed/ 9 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/02/04/vmware-creating-a-snapshot-for-a-virtual-machine-fails-with-the-error-file-is-larger-than-maximum-file-size-supported-1012384/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/02/04/vmware-creating-a-snapshot-for-a-virtual-machine-fails-with-the-error-file-is-larger-than-maximum-file-size-supported-1012384/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:40:10 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/?p=2455 When Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails Or you receive the error: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore Note: This error does not occur on ESX 3.5 or earlier. ESX 4.0 is able to detect when a snapshot file at maximum size cannot fit into a datastore. Instead of [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/02/04/vmware-creating-a-snapshot-for-a-virtual-machine-fails-with-the-error-file-is-larger-than-maximum-file-size-supported-1012384/feed/ 3 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/01/26/vmware-the-svga-ii-driver-can-freeze-windows-server-2008-r2-or-windows-7/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/01/26/vmware-the-svga-ii-driver-can-freeze-windows-server-2008-r2-or-windows-7/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:52:47 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/01/26/vmware-the-svga-ii-driver-can-freeze-windows-server-2008-r2-or-windows-7/ Carlo Costanzo from VMwareInfo.com has posted the following helpful article: The SVGA II driver installed by VMware Tools doesn’t work with 2008 R2 or Windows 7.  Console sessions will randomly lockup. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/218244?start=105&tstart=0 According to the thread there is a WDDM driver in U1 that you can install manually to fix the problem by browsing to [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/01/26/vmware-the-svga-ii-driver-can-freeze-windows-server-2008-r2-or-windows-7/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/26/vmware-alert-upgrading-esx-4-0-to-4-0-u1-using-update-manager-fails-or-times-out-and-rebooting-the-host-results-in-a-purple-diagnostic-screen-symptoms-1016070/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/26/vmware-alert-upgrading-esx-4-0-to-4-0-u1-using-update-manager-fails-or-times-out-and-rebooting-the-host-results-in-a-purple-diagnostic-screen-symptoms-1016070/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:03:14 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/26/vmware-alert-upgrading-esx-4-0-to-4-0-u1-using-update-manager-fails-or-times-out-and-rebooting-the-host-results-in-a-purple-diagnostic-screen-symptoms-1016070/ When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1, you may experience the following symptoms: Update Manager (VUM) upgrade operation fails or times out at 33%. Upon reboot, the host that was being upgraded displays a purple diagnostic screen with the following error: COS Panic: Int3 @ mp_register_ioapic   Customers using VMware vSphere [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/26/vmware-alert-upgrading-esx-4-0-to-4-0-u1-using-update-manager-fails-or-times-out-and-rebooting-the-host-results-in-a-purple-diagnostic-screen-symptoms-1016070/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:27:00 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/ vSphere 4.0 introduces a new para-virtualized network device – VMXNET3.  We recently published a paper demonstrating its performance characteristics, compared to that of enhanced VMXNET2 (the previous generation of high performance virtual network device from VMware). Some highlights of this paper are: (1) Throughput gains of up to 92% for 10G TCP/IPv4 Rx workloads with [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-evaluation-of-vmxnet3-virtual-network-device/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-troubleshooting-for-vmware-vsphere-4-and-esx-4-0/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-troubleshooting-for-vmware-vsphere-4-and-esx-4-0/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:21:02 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-troubleshooting-for-vmware-vsphere-4-and-esx-4-0/ Performance problems can arise in any computing environment. In a virtualized computing environment performance problems can arise due to new and often subtle interactions occurring in the shared infrastructure. Uncovering the causes of those problems requires an understanding of the available performance metrics and their relationship to underlying configuration issues. A new guide covering performance [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/09/22/vmware-performance-troubleshooting-for-vmware-vsphere-4-and-esx-4-0/feed/ 0