Category: VMware

Service Console Memory defaults

Duncan Epping (www.yellow-bricks.com) wrote a great post about de default amount of service console memory for vSphere 4. I must confess I also thought that the default amount of service console memory was 800 Mb. But Duncan explains that this dynamicly configured during the installation of vSphere , depening on the amount of memory the […]

Tuesday September 21st, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

No SSH access for vSphere 4.1

After a upgrade to VMware vSphere 4.1 I couldn’t SSH to the Service Console. First I thought the password wasn’t correct, but after checking to login on the console directly I noticed that the password is correct. When I enabled rootlogin in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config -> permitrootlogin yes, I could login as root through SSH, so […]

Monday July 26th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT with VMware Workstation 7

During a lab of the N309o course (Deploying Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 for Linux) a student experienced a blue screen on this VMware Host workstation. This workstation was running Windows XP 64 bit with VMware Workstation build 203739. The student was trying to install a package on a SLED 11 virtual machine through Yast. […]

Thursday July 22nd, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

Novellcongres.nl presentation: OES2 on vSphere best practice

In June I gave a presentation OES2 on vSphere best practice. After this session I got a lot of possible response from the people in the studio. Although you can download the presentation a long time from the novellcongres.nl site, I thought to post it out here also. One disadvantage, because the congres is called […]

Thursday July 8th, 2010 in Novell, VMware | 4 Comments »

VMware and Novell Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver and Support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware vSphere Environments

Just a quick copy-past from a press release VMware and Novell today announced an expansion to their strategic partnership with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement through which VMware will distribute and support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. Under the agreement, VMware also intends to standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on SUSE […]

Thursday June 10th, 2010 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »