Hi, I’ve just received an email from Dave Henderson from BrightTALK inviting all blog readers to a free virtualization webcast, featuring such experts as: Moshe Bar, Red Hat – “Determining the Real TCO for Virtual Desktop Environments” Mark R. Feverston, Vice President of Microsoft Solutions at Unisys – “Delivering on the Promise of Simplified Mngmt [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
EMC Storage Viewer 1.0 preview plugin available
EMC have made their plugin for VirtualCenter/vCenter available here In the same place are instructions for use and a readme which states: The objective of the EMC® Storage Viewer for Virtual Infrastructure Client is to provide a new tool that facilitates discovery and identification of EMC storage devices which are allocated to VMware ESX servers [...]
Do you have horrible iSCSI/VM network performance?
Update – 02/06/2009: VMware have a KB article on the matter — Read this article by Tom Sightler. It’s absolutely brilliant as he tracks down his awful onboard NIC performance to an IRQ interrupt sharing arrangement with the kernel USB module. Removal of that module increased his onboard Broadcom performance to that of the off-board [...]
Symantec Endpoint Protection and VMware 3.x
Boy, this one was a doozy. We have a Sun 9990V and a Sun 6540 virtualized behind it. All our ESX servers are connected to the 9990V and tot he virtualised 6540 behind it. We started noticing massive CPU spikes at 4-hourly intervals: At all times, the event viewer on each of the windows VMs [...]
A royal pain: VCB not backing up a VM
We had an issue with a VM not backing up – it kept failing with the following error: [2009-04-15 13:49:39.230 'vcbMounter' 908 error] Error: Could not back up config file: [VM10_Production01_DC1_T4] FBEAV//vmware-59.log [2009-04-15 13:49:39.246 'vcbMounter' 908 error] An error occurred, cleaning up… Now, as anyone can see, this is a wholy annoying and useless error, [...]