NIC Teaming with VMware vSphere & HP Procurve Switches

I researched how to configure NIC Teaming for load balancing and failover for VMware vSphere 4 and HP Procurve Switches.  I won’t go into great detail, but here are the steps.  NIC Teaming with VMware vSphere and HP Procurve switches. Summary… HP Switch Set ports on HP switch for trunking Add new trunk to data vlan  VMware vSphere Add networking [...]

ESXi Time Bomb Error

Problem with ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2:  As of August 12, 2008, Virtual Machine won’t power on after it has been powered off or rebooted. You receive the error: A General System Error occured: Internal Error Your event will display: This product has expired.  Be sure that your host machine’s date [...]

VMware ESX 3i Installation Video

Here’s a video I found of the ESXi installation, literally beginning to end in less than seven minutes.  If you haven’t had a chance to test ESXi yet, here’s a glimpse at what to expect…

Backing up VM files from ESXi

If you’re like me, then you have a separate, backup copy of your images and VM files so that if something happens to your VMware Server/ESXi Server or your storage of choice where your production vm files are stored, you can quickly move them from your backup location to a new vm server while you [...]

More on ESXi…

Just an update on the ESXi Server I installed yesterday.  I currently am running three VM’s on it:  Intranet, SpiceWorks Server, and our Certificate Authority Server.  Things are working great!  I really like the Virtual Infrastructure Client.  If you are using ESX (the paid version), then you are already using this. I mentioned in my [...]

WSUS as a Virtual Machine?

Anyone running Microsoft’s WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) as a Virtual Server.  I was leaning toward physical during early planning, but now more toward virtual.  I found this forum with network environments much larger than we are saying they are running it without any trouble. http://communities.vmware.com/message/984973;jsessionid=F04F8B9AA07A905E5DA37E497D0796FC What are your thoughts?

Virtualization Forum 2008 – Information

I wasn’t able to make it to Atlanta this week for the Virtualization Forum 2008, but here’s an email I received with downloadable presentations, etc. Click the image below for the online version…

VMware Infrastructure 3 Demo

Here’s a good demo of VMware Infrastructure 3.  The features they go over are mostly paid features.  But, it’s a good overview of VMware Virtualization if you are not familiar with VMware (or would like to see more of the paid features).

ESXi Successfully Installed!

I’m very happy to say that I have successfully installed ESXi.  So far, so good.  Here are the specs for the test server… Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz processors 4 GB RAM Local Storage (5 disks in a RAID 5 with 1 hot spare = 260 GB storage) Dual Intel NIC’s I downloaded [...]

VMware and Virtualization

I’m getting ready to download this Free VMware Hypervisor to start testing it this week! If you are not working with virtualization, I highly recommend you download either VMware ESXi, or VMware Server (which runs on top of Windows). I was able to see VMware first hand with many of our Church IT friends at [...]