A recent client experience reminded me that advising clients about old copies of virtual machines is critical. I normally say to users on vmware and hyperV to clearly rename the old copies that are made of virtual machines to prevent them getting confused with a live version. However thats exactly what led to the clients […]
A client asked me some questions about HyperV networking and virtual machines – and I found after giving them the answers that I really don’t much like some of the problems that the various release of HyperV have thrust on unsuspecting users. In a recent event a client removed a large amount of hyperV networking […]
Working on a proposal for a prospective client I find myself metaphorically sitting in the IT managers seat wondering about the best way to approach the project they have outlined to me. Essentially its a total refresh of the infrastructure with a focus on the upgrading of server operating systems tyo support new applications and […]
A client for whom I’m working on some virtualisation and backup issues had a rather large (1.6TB) vmware convertor image of one server 2008 r2 that needed checked for viability. I removed the image from site and was about to convert it up to the ESX server to check that it would start okay. I decided […]
A client reported some tales of woe regarding their backup strategy and random failures in the backup process. The servers involved were 2008 R2 with the hyperv role and exchange 2007. When investigated it appeared that they had been having very little success getting backups to fully complete on a regular basis. One idea was […]
The latest incarnation of VMware’s virtualisation tool for PC operating systems – VMware workstation got a an update which chages quite a few of the features and tools now expectected from this kind of virtualisation utility. Previously I used this product daily until I moved fully into the ESX(i) environment but have been very infrequently […]
After what seems like an eternity Vsphere 5 is with us Vmware recently announced the general availabilty and said …… VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features – Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS – that extend the platform’s unique datacenter resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated […]
ESX clock time and keeping vms in sync as regards their time can be problemmatic. The diversity of ways of maintaining time and the differences betwen OS and even individual virtual machines can make it awkward to figure out where the time drift issue may lie. Some things to look out for are dead ntp […]
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