There seems to be a lot of confusion about vMotion and bus-shared VMDKs.  For the record, and from VMware, it is not recommended nor supported to vMotion your VM between ESX Hosts when using either Virtual or Physical mode bus-sharing. Please see the KB here. I know there are plenty that will disagree and have [...]

Even during an economic slowdown there are bright spots and opportunities.  Scott Lowe from Blog.ScottLowe.org is taking a new position with EMC as a VMware-Cisco Solutions Principal.  Congratulations to Scott! Scott has pledged to continue his already top-notch blogging, continuing in line with his new boss and another great blogger Chad Sakac. Read Scott’s post [...]

If you are looking to update your ESX4 hosts to Update 01, don’t look in Update Manager.  VMware has removed the update because of a bug with the HP Management Agents preventing the update from completely successfully and rendering the host inoperable. From KB1016070: “Note: If you want to install the update, you must download [...]

These are great instructions if you have received errors when trying to add a LUN to an ESX Host, and suspect that the LUN may not be READY, or write enabled these instructions can help you troubleshoot and/or fix the LUN. Read the KB here. If you are unable to re-write the LUN label, the [...]

VMware doesn’t use the “Purple Screen of Death” or “ESX PSOD” terminology in their documents so if you Google it, you won’t get directed to VMware.com and this document for this information.  I know in the past I have spent far too much time searching for PSOD information, so keep this link handy. This document [...]

Apparently, Oracle hasn’t heard that many customers want them to support running Oracle applications within a Virtual Environment! I know, that for me, we have run Oracle in Virtual Machines for years now and full support would break down the last barrier anyone has for fighting against Oracle in a VM.  We have asked our [...]

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Chris Everette, a Contributor to Virtual Insanity posted his thoughts on Cloud Computing and what it means to IT.  Read it here. This past evening, I had an email conversation with a former colleague who is on the development side of Cloud Computing.  Morgan Catlin, Vice President of IT for Valtira, and I discussed how [...]