I just got my hands on Eric Siebert’s new book Maximum vSphere. This is Eric’s second book, and this goes deep into best practices specific to this release of vSphere. It’s also a great reference to keep on hand when those questions pop into your head. Whether you’re implementing or managing vSphere 4, upgrading from [...]

With this release, the VMware virtual datacenter operating system continues to transform x86 IT infrastructure into the most efficient, shared, on-demand utility, with built-in availability, scalability, and security services for all applications and simple, proactive automated management. New and enhanced features in vSphere 4.1 are listed below (with links). Installation and Deployment Storage Network Availability [...]

Someone asked me what the impact would be if a VM is installed with the wrong OS type. My first thought was that this probably would introduce some performance issues, but then it hit me that this would cause the incorrect VMware Tools to get installed in the VM, leading to all sorts of unintended [...]