VMware News, Views, and How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend
I recently ran into an issue when installing my first Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. The VM would hang/freeze randomly when used through the VMware vCenter Client's console. It turns out this is a known issue (see this VMware KB Article) … [Continue reading] about Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7 Freeze When Using SVGA Drivers
Today marks the one year anniversary of my first post on VMtoday.com, and an exciting year it has been in many ways. First, some stats: VMtoday.com has been visited more than 10,000 times in the past year. While the number of site visits is … [Continue reading] about VMtoday’s One Year Anniversary
I recently posted an article on how specific actions during the upgrade of a VMware Virtual Machine's hardware from v4 to v7 can cause problems with certain services, including DNS, DHCP, and WINS. In that case, the problem was related to Microsoft … [Continue reading] about Upgrading Virtual Hardware in a VMware Virtual Machine May Cause Disks to go Offline
I recently completed a VMware VI 3.5 to vSphere upgrade in a small environment (5 hosts, 80 VM's). Being a small environment, the upgrade was planned for one big overnight blitz. Unfortunately, the size of the environment did not afford a test … [Continue reading] about vSphere Upgrade Breaks Active Directory
A reader named Mark contacted me today and asked if there was a way to reduce the size of the batch output from an ESXTOP run. And he asks for good reason: Depending on the number of VM's on your host, the delay between ESXTOP samplings and the … [Continue reading] about The Skinny on ESXTOP
