Category: VMware

Novellcongres.nl 2011

Yesterday was the 10 time that the novellcongres.nl was held in Ede the Netherlands. Although the amount of vistors was less than the years before, it’s was a nice day with a lot of interesting sessions. Especially the keynote session from Dirk Schmidt (Novell VP Sales EMEA) and Richard Lindstedt (PM Neutron) where really interesting. […]

Thursday June 16th, 2011 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »

Monitoring time synchronisation on ESXi

As you all probably know vSphere 4 is the latest version where there will be a service console. With the new version VMware ESX 5 there will only be a ESXi version.  Some system administrators are disappointed with this decision  of VMware. Personal I can understand the decision to eliminate the service console, because what […]

Monday May 9th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Enable SNMP on vSphere ESXi 4.1

In the vSphere client you have a option to monitor your hardware status. This is of course  a very nice feature but only if you have your vSphere client open the whole day. When you have a management server like Nagios you want to use SNMP for monitoring your vSphere enviroment. By default SNMP modules […]

Friday April 29th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Given Services are not enabled on the port group

When trying to apply a host profile to a vSphere host you can receive a error: Given Services are not enabled on the port group After some investigation and googling around I found this kb articel on vmware.com. This KB articile discribes that the error only occurs when you have 2 vmk’s on a single […]

Wednesday April 6th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Set Hyperthreading Sharing Options for a Virtual Machine

Will configuring a VM template for a VMware View 4.5 environment with 1200 desktops, I was exploring the advanced CPU options of a VM. There I saw a option: hypertreaded core sharing I’m not sure if my explanation below is correct so please correct me if you think I’m wrong! As I did not know […]

Thursday March 3rd, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »