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/2010/10/27/vmware-configuring-vmware-vcenter-server-to-send-an-alarm-when-virtual-machines-are-running-from-snapshots/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/27/vmware-configuring-vmware-vcenter-server-to-send-an-alarm-when-virtual-machines-are-running-from-snapshots/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:15:29 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/27/vmware-configuring-vmware-vcenter-server-to-send-an-alarm-when-virtual-machines-are-running-from-snapshots/ This video details how to configure alarms in your VMware vSphere environment, through vCenter Server. It’s easy but not a default alarm.. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0VmmKNhYk&feature=player_embedded]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/27/vmware-configuring-vmware-vcenter-server-to-send-an-alarm-when-virtual-machines-are-running-from-snapshots/feed/ 1 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/06/02/vmware-active-snapshots-but-cant-see-them-in-snapshot-manager/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/06/02/vmware-active-snapshots-but-cant-see-them-in-snapshot-manager/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:44:02 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/06/02/vmware-active-snapshots-but-cant-see-them-in-snapshot-manager/ Today I got some problems with backing up one of my VM’s using VMware Data Recovery. I was looking what was going wrong after a few failures.. And yes..  hanging snapshots Trying to remove the snapshots was a little bit different. When I went into the “Snapshot Manager” there were no active snapshots and I [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/06/02/vmware-active-snapshots-but-cant-see-them-in-snapshot-manager/feed/ 11 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/2009/11/21/vmware-howto-make-vcb-backup-easy-with-vcbbackup-vbs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/21/vmware-howto-make-vcb-backup-easy-with-vcbbackup-vbs/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:03:14 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/?p=2165 To install vcb follow the instructions on this link. The first time I came in contact with vcb I created some batch files to make vcb snapshots. I encountered all kind of problems. Snapshots that vcb didn’t remove. unexpected errors no vss support and some more issues. To overcome some of these problems I created [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/11/21/vmware-howto-make-vcb-backup-easy-with-vcbbackup-vbs/feed/ 1 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/14/vmware-creating-snapshots-in-a-different-location-than-default-virtual-machine-directory-1002929/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/14/vmware-creating-snapshots-in-a-different-location-than-default-virtual-machine-directory-1002929/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 20:29:38 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/14/vmware-creating-snapshots-in-a-different-location-than-default-virtual-machine-directory-1002929/ All snapshots are created in the default virtual machine directory. Even if the vmdk disk file is located on different datastore than the virtual machine, the delta files are created in the default virtual machine directory. This article provides instructions to change the default location. Changing the location of where the delta files are created [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/14/vmware-creating-snapshots-in-a-different-location-than-default-virtual-machine-directory-1002929/feed/ 2