VMware News, Views, and How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend
This event has been postponed. We have tentatively rescheduled for September 2012 (post VMworld). Stay tuned to this site and https://dcvmug.com for more info and future events. Potomac Regional VMUG is Coming to Washington D.C. – May 9th, … [Continue reading] about Postponed! Potomac Regional VMUG is Coming to Washington D.C. – May 9th, 2012!
I have found VMware vSphere Resource Pools to be an often misunderstood element, and incorrectly implemented by even seasoned VMware administrators. I recently found an example of an incorrect implementation of Resource Pools being used to organize … [Continue reading] about VMware vSphere Resource Pools – Resource Allocation Revisited
When deploying or recomposing a pool of Windows 7 (or Windows Vista) virtual desktops on VMware View, you may receive an error message stating: “composer agent initialization error (16): Failed to activate software license (waited 0 seconds).” This … [Continue reading] about Using KMS for VMware View Windows Activation
On Wednesday, I wrote about a VMware vSphere 5 networking bug that caused issues with iSCSI networking. That bug, described in VMware KB 2008144 caused vmk traffic to be sent over the unused vmnic uplink in a team where there is an unused uplink and … [Continue reading] about vSphere 5 Networking Bug #2 Affects Management Network Connectivity
Update 1: This issue was fixed as of 3/15/2012 in ESXi 5.0 Update 1 per the original knowledge base article: VMware KB 2008144. To download ESXi 5.0/vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1, see the VMware Download Center. Update 2 (Nov 7 2012): While VMware … [Continue reading] about vSphere 5 Networking Bug Affects Software iSCSI
