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Manual format a local VMFS partition

During a ESX 3.5 course a student accomplished to create a VMFS partition but not to format this partition. In the VI-Client, you only can create a new VMFS Datastore a an empty LUN. So if you select your local disk, the Service Console partitions get earesed during initialization. A quick look in Google tolled […]

Wednesday September 30th, 2009 in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »

fault.CustomizationPending.summary

While developing a vSphere cause I got the error fault.CustomizationPending.summary while deploying a Virtual Machine from a Template in vShpere. The problem was simple but it took me a while to figure it out, so I thought to posted it out here for you guy’s. Before I converted a Virtual Machine to a Template, I […]

Wednesday September 9th, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

vSphere kickstart script

For a while now, I’m giving a self made course about VMware ESX 3.0. Until now, the customer provided the hardware or the company who heirs me for this course provided the hardware. This was a time consuming tasks because a employee form this company (Ictivity Training) had to put all the hardware is his […]

Thursday September 3rd, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Groupwise 8 SP1 available

As you have read on many site including Novell Coolsolutions, Groupwise 8 sp1 is out! Tonight I’m going to upgrade my Groupwise server. We will find out what’s new! What’s for sure, that there are many bug fixes. Here you can find a list. It’s to long to post it here. Ok, 20 minutes later […]

Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

vSphere: Host Profile

When you have multiple ESX 3.x hosts (in a cluster or not, that doesn’t really matter) you want all the same host have the same setting. For example: NTP, VMkernel default gateway, DNS servers etc. In ESX 3.x you must configure this per host. I was easier if you created a Kick Script for installtion […]

Tuesday September 1st, 2009 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »