Category: VMware

NSS Performance with VMFS and ISCSI

ate I have done some testing with NSS and Vmware ESX. And I must say, I’m quite disappointed about the performance! Exspecially with NSS on VMFS with ISCSI. I had the following setup: One virtual machine with Novell Open Enterprise server 2 on Vmware ESX 3.5 U2. This virtual machine has his VMDK on a […]

Monday November 3rd, 2008 in VMware | 22 Comments »

Pratical Vmware ESX Training

Today and yesterday I gave the course PB-VM-ESX (Pratical Vmware ESX). The are 3 student and one of them is Andre from Ictivity (for whom I’m giving this course). The default exercises where to easy for him, so instead of doing the exercises with Microsoft Windows, I let him do the exercises with SLES10 SP2 […]

Tuesday October 28th, 2008 in VMware | 2 Comments »

OES2 sp1 Public Beta

Last week I blogged about whats new in SP1 for OES2, and now Public Beta4 is available. At this moment I’m following a TTT (Train The Trainer) N8004 at Novell in Dusseldorf so I can’t upgrade my test server at home. But next week I will surly do so! Not for (better) Cifs or AFP […]

Thursday October 16th, 2008 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »

fstab file is modified after VMware tools install

When I did a kernel update of a SLES10 sp1 with OES 2 services I have to reinstall the VMware tools. After the reboot my NSS volumes did not come up. If you look in the /etc/fstab file, you will see that the mount point for NSS are missing. Just put them in there and […]

Thursday September 25th, 2008 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »

Virtual Center is comming to Linux and VI Client to Iphone

On the site silicon.com I read a post of VMworld that say’s that Vmware chief technology officer Stephen Harrod annouced that Virtual Centre will come availible as a virtual appliance on Linux. You can run this appliance on your ESX host. Through VMWare fault Tolerance a replica will be maintained on a second ESX host. […]

Wednesday September 24th, 2008 in VMware | No Comments »