Events
The Dutch VMUG Event 2010 – Recap.
Just a quick blog about the sessions I attended at the sixth Dutch VMUG Event, which have been hold at NBC Nieuwegein. This event was the biggest so far, 750 […]
How To
“Unable to retrieve health data from https” alert displayed in the vCenter Service Status.
I recently saw this error occur on a Windows Server 2008 R2 running VMware vCenter Server 4.1.0 (Build 258902) after changing the name of the server. Apparently, changes made to […]
Events
The Dutch VMUG Event 2010.
Only two weeks to go to the sixth edition of the Dutch VMUG Event! It will be held on Friday, December 10 in Nieuwegein at NBC. For more information about […]
Automation
Start and stop VMware Workstation services on your laptop – menu driven.
When you install the VMware Workstation software on your system the Workstation services (VMware Authorization Service, VMware Agent Service, VMware NAT Service, VMware DHCP Service and the VMware USB Arbitration Service) start-up […]
VMware
VMware vCenter Orchestrator Community.
Just a quick post about the VMware vCenter Orchestrator. I was listening to the VMware Community Roundtable podcast on TalkShoe the other day and the topic was the VMware vCenter Orchestrator. If you are interested in […]
How To
Configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO on ESX 4.x.
This is just a quick post about configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO (2:1 mapping) on an ESX 4.x server. Here is a quick overview of the procedure: Create VMkernel […]
Hardware
HP StorageWorks P4300 G2 SAN – Lessons learned.
There are a lot great blog posts about the HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN arrays (formally known as HP Lefthand). I think the articles written by Frank Denneman are one of […]
How To
Boot ESX 4 from SAN on a failover LUN – Lessons learned.
Is it possible to boot an ESX 4 host from a LUN that has been “failed over” to another physical location? Yes, it is possible but there are some serious […]