Installing VMware ESX 4 in Text Mode
There are many reasons to install VMware ESX in text mode. The main reasons I use text mode are that it seems quicker for me and text mode responds better
VI4 Certification News
From the VMware Certification Site : Certification News: VMware Certified Professional on vSphere™ 4 With the launch of vSphere™ 4, a new certification wil
FLASH: ESX 4 Console OS is REALLY a VM this time!
While I was setting up ESX in text mode for my next blog post, I discovered that the installation sequence first creates a VMFS file system and then create
Running VMware ESX 4 RC in a VMware 6.5.2 VM.
I just set up another quick VI4 lab on my laptop for the purposes of capturing screen shots and testing some things out. I was worried because I was not ab
VMware vSphere 4 under the covers: First Look
Tuesday April 21st VMware announced they will be releasing vSphere 4 by the end of 2nd quarter. This is exciting news for many looking to take advantage of
VMware Partner Exchange Technical Notes
Below are some notes that I took from the VMware Partner Exchange technical sessions that I attended. I left off the BCDR Workshop because it will become a
VMware Partner Exchange Notes: Keynotes
Here are some breif notes from VMware Partner Exchange. I will also post about some of the technical sessions. I am not going to regurgitate the keynotes.
VMware vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0, vCenter 4.0) Alarms and Host Profiles
Some are speculating that next Tuesday VMware is going to announce the release of VMware vSphere which is what essentially is Virtual Infrastructure 4.0 wh
VMware Virtual Center: Physical or Virtual?
Over the years there have been some controversy over this topic. Should Virtual Center (vCenter) be physical or virtual? There is the argument that it shou
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Virtualization
In the previous years Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery have been big buzz words. All companies small and large vowed to launch initiatives to impl
Questioning SaaS
I was torn on whether or not to post this rant, but then I read a post that made my head spin.... First, there was the " Great Gmail Outage of February 200
ESX local partitioning when booting from SAN
A few days ago I wrote a blog about ESX local partitions . A good question was raised after I wrote the article concerning ESX hosts that boot from SAN. In