Category: VMware

How to Install a Standard Vmware View Connection Server

System Requirements A Standard Vmware View Connection server can be installed on the  following supported configuration: Pentium IV 2.0 Ghz CPU or higher (dual CPU recommended) 2 GB RAM or more (3 GB recommended) One or more 10/100 Mbps NIC (1000 Mbps recommended) Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition with SP2 Windows […]

Tuesday February 24th, 2009 in VMware | 12 Comments »

Vmware View Update 1

As I blogged in this post, I’m testing Vmware View to develop a training for the company I often work for. This weekend I greated the basic setup. I installed a ESX 3.5 U3 server on a Dell Poweredge 2900.  On this host I created 2 virtual machines: vCenter Windows 2003 SP2 (192.168.1.10/24) AD called […]

Thursday February 12th, 2009 in VMware | 2 Comments »

How to move a NSS LUN (RDM or VDMK) to another VM without losing metadata

The case is simple. I have a virtual machine (VM1) how has a RDM connected to it, on witch a NSS volume is created. I want to move this LUN to another virtual machine (VM2) without losing al it’s metadata. The procedure is as followed: Decommission the NSS pool from the current OES server. Disconnect […]

Friday January 23rd, 2009 in VMware | 2 Comments »

NSS and VMFS performance OES2 SP1

Earlier I blogged about the performance of NSS on VMFS. You can read the result from that test over here. Now I tested it also with SP1 for OES2 to see if the performance is better. Sequential Output (nosync) Sequential Sequential Input Per Char Per Block Rewrite Per Char Per Block 04K -3 MB K/Sec […]

Friday December 19th, 2008 in Novell, VMware | 8 Comments »

microcode failed to start with VMI kernel

When you install the VMI kernel for SLES10 SP2 the deamon microcode failes to start. No worry, you don’t need this process any more when you have paravirtualization. Just remove the deamon with: insserv -r /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl Below is a grab from the man pages: The microcode_ctl utility is a companion to the IA32 microcode driver […]

Wednesday December 17th, 2008 in VMware | No Comments »