Category: Server Virtualization

  • VMware ESX How to enable SNMP

    As many VMware ESX monitoring tools are hitting the market place, and with the tend of these tools being dependent on SNMP (example: Starwind Free VM Monitor for VMware ESX), the more I am getting the question on how can I enable SNMP on my VMware ESX Server.. The instruction below will cover how to…

  • Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT

    This article title say “Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT“, but what should that mean to you. It should mean the world to a lot of us. It should mean think twice trice before you buy a Sony VAIO laptop, due to the amount of limitation that come with disabling Intel VT. Ok, let’s see…

  • vCenter Server linked Mode. Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group

    vSphere Virtual Center Linked Mode Prerequisites: Well, yes this article has two headers or titles. Guess what they are almost identical. I have seen “Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group” all over the net & without any one posting resolution for it. hmmmm, how did I find out about…

  • VMware vSphere – VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch bug or limitation

    Many of you have already heard about the new VMware vNetwork Distributed switch. It has been a really great innovation by VMware. I believe most of us has already learned something about its benefit like: 1- Simplify Virtual Machine Networking: As you get to create one switch per cluster & create the policy across all…

  • How to enable VMware EVC on VMware vSphere & VI3 without downtime

    If you don’t know what is VMware EVC or you need to find out more about it, please look at my last post VMware EVC enhanced VMotion Compatibility enable VMware VMotion across CPU generations Ok, if you had read that and now wondering how to get it setup without having to shutdown your virtual machines.…

  • VMware EVC (Enhanced VMotion Compatibility) enable VMware VMotion across CPU generations

    Everyone who had been using VMware for a while, would appreciate VMware VMotion. Actually VMware VMotion have always been a distinguished feature of VMware ESX servers. Despite of VMotion has always been a great feature, people using it at earlier stages used to have a tough time when having to use it across different CPU generation. That meant companies had…

  • Finaly Microsoft opens Hyper-V code to the Linux community

    In a very interesting article by Jeffrey Schawartz in Readmondmag.com, has published an interesting news about Microsoft’s decision – “unthinkable” until a few days ago – MS “open” more than 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community under the license GPLv2 (General Public License version 2). The code, published on Monday, includes three device…

  • Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V is now offered 4 free

    Citrix Systems, Inc. has just made available to the general public, Citrix Essentials for HyperV – Express Edition version, for free. The new version of Express Edition is available for immediate download and includes Citrix StorageLink technology. With StorageLink, Windows administrators can dramatically simplify storage management. The Express Edition version of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V…

  • VMWare ESX: A general system error occurred: Ufad server is not running.

    It seems to me many people are facing the same ugly error when they try to convert a physical server to a virtual server using VMware Consolidation Planning tool. The error usually get after the tool has finished annalyzing the physical machine & it was deemed ‘Ready for consolidation’ with Confidence ‘high’. When the user…

  • Oracle Ditches Virtual Iron & VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users

    Only after a bit over a month of Oracle acquiring Virutal Iron, they have to ditches the product. That mean customers who had already bought Virtual Iron or planning to buy it will be left in the dark waiting for a savior. It seems VMware has been well aware of the situation & prepared to…

  • VMWare ESXi editing the Hostfile

    If you are as paranoid with redundancy as my team & I are, then entering the hostnames & IPs of all the server in a cluster into the VMware host file is a must. As your VMware HA is dependant on your servers being able to resolve the names of itself & other ESX server…

  • VMware ESXi – Console Access (Unsupported)

    Did the title bring your attention? Have you heard that one of the main reasons for VMware ESXi was to get rid of the service console? Are you sure there is no console in VMware ESXi? The true is there is still a very tiny console in VMware ESXi, though it has way smaller foot…

  • VMware vSphere does not support VMware SRM & VMware View

    It had been asked so often lately, if VMware vSphere support SRM & VMware View yet. I had even got calls from customers who tried to integrate the two together. The VMware statement is quite clear in this regard, both VMware Site Recovery Manager(SRM) & VMware View are not supported yet by VMWare vSphere 4.0.…

  • ESXi cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes

    In the past few weeks, I had been hit by many calls of many of my colleagues & customers being hit by the following error when trying to configure VMware ESXi HA: “cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes” After investigating the error for sometime & searching on the…

  • MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load

    This video is just what the title said, MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load. Watch out what a mess you are planning to go into!!!!! I expect to see too many comments on this one, don’t get me disappointed :).