Just noticed that VM labs have released something that will appeal to those of us managing or testing various flavours of hypervisor platforms but that have a vsphere focus VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It […]
During the conversion of a Redhat ES 4 (Nahant) physical server to an esx3.5i host I was having repeated failures after around 15 minutes. From vmware-converter-agent.log I found this error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds“. An researched this to find that there is a hard coded limit on the length of […]
Over the last few days I helped migrate some physical infrastructure servers for a client to a brand new Vmware Esx enviroment. Having down this particular task many times I wasn’t really expecting many new issues but in this case its worth pointing out that dhcp can be useful during the conversion of machines that […]
Finally. The time has come for a migration of a venerable machine running Redhat ES4 to a virtual platform. I wrestled with this conversion before but ultimately was successful. Therefore repeating the process on the live server was hoped to be easier due to all the other work and testing that had been carried out. […]
I have a project starting shortly that aims to use a new product to improve the performance of a database application. It came up as an option during hardware negotiations with Dell who are offering the product as a part of their server configurations. The basic premise is that the device which is presented as […]
So finally Northern Ireland gets a smattering of snow. Belfast seems to have got off lightly but reports from other areas suggest a bit more chaos out there. On speaking to a colleague the other day about snow I got a growling silence and a “Don’t start me on snow” response (Don’t worry Geoff no-one […]
As a result of another piece of work – relating to 64 BIT guests on ESX4i on a Poweredge T610 here an interested chat was had with Dell support. When the change had been made – I noted that the server fans appeared noisier that before. After kicking off two server vm installs I had left […]
A recent migration of a 32 Bit SBS server to a new esxi 4 host went very smotthly. The improved performance and snappiness of the server was immediately obvious. This however was in preparation for the migration to SBS 2008 and an addition of a 2008r2 Terminal server. Once more Dell strike with the notion […]
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