Being the linux user that I am – me not having a start menu and having to navigate through the horrendous metro interface is SUPER annoying. Thankfully, VMware has saved the day. Do the following steps: 1) Install VMware Workstation 2) Curse Microsoft and install Windows 8 (Cursing is mandatory) 3) Install VMware Tools AS […]
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Sep
Sep
Here at Helixstorm, we spend a lot of time telling customers how great virtual desktops are. And with good reason: they significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for your company computers, can be easily managed from one central location, and are incredibly flexible because you can access them with a lot of different devices. […]
01
Aug
Aug
Recently I ran across an issue installing ESXi on an HP DL380p Gen8. The VMware ESXi ISO image does not have the latest NIC and RAID Controller drivers to allow for install. The HP packaged VMware ESXi ISO has the proper drivers, but it is an older ESXi build. When you patch the HP VMware […]
02
Jul
Jul
Cloud computing has many advantages- it’s easy to maintain, very flexible and scalable, and brings significant cost savings to businesses hosting their data in this type of environment. The cloud, however, is not fail-safe. We saw that over the weekend, when Amazon’s Northern Virginia data center suffered a power outage resulting in service interruption for companies hosted […]
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May
May
I was doing some maintenance and wanted to clean up some old NFS mounts we had on our ESXi server. Here’s a one-liner you can slap in PowerCLI once you are auth’d to vCenter. It will essentially list all VMs that have an ISO mounted. Pretty easy! I was then able to umount the CD/DVD […]
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May
May
On May 7th 2012, DataCore Software released a plug-in for SANSymphony-V and VMware vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 and greater. The plug-in adds a SANSymphony-V tab to your VMware vSphere Client. This allows for integration between SANSymphony-V and VMware. From the tab within the vSphere Client you can perform the following operations: Create virtual disks and present […]
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May
May
VMware recently announced that VMware View 5.1 will be released in Q2 2012. Below is a summary listing of the new features and benefits. VMware View Storage Accelerator will act as a read cache for common blocks of Virtual Machine Disk Files (VMDK). This will benefit performance by reducing the read IOPS on the underlying […]
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May
May
Many storage arrays such as HP’s 3Par line, Datacore, and others have the ability to thin provision storage. VMware also has the ability to thin provision virtual disks (VMDK files). Over time the storage utilization increases as data is created, fragmented, and moved. When data is deleted the storage array does not automatically free up […]
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May
May
We recently integrated BackupExec for one of our existing clients, however, after getting woken up at 4am this past weekend, we found out that a snapshot filled up the LUN for a VM. We finally determined it was from BackupExec hanging! After restarting the service, we were able to fix it easily by doing a […]
10
May
May
This article will give you a step by step guide on how to configure a DLE with VeritasVM on Sun Solaris. In a recent scenario for one of our clients, it was imperative that we manage this via DLE, rather than spanning an existing disk group with another LUN. It is always a good idea […]