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VMware Converter 3.0.3
As I mentioned previously, I had the opportunity last week to use VMware Converter 3.0.3. It worked a charm on a slightly odd P2V. Odd in the sense that the customer ripped 2 hard disks out of a HP...
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vmdk labelling
A colleague pointed out to me recently that VirtualCenter no longer has the annoying habit of creating vmdk files with the same labels across multiple datastores. For example, on VC 2.5 Build 104215,...
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Creating a VMFS datastore
While everyone is talking about new VMwares, I’d like to focus on the mundane stuff. Creating a VMFS datastore on an ESX host is a relatively trivial activity, and something that you’ve probably done a...
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sVMotion with snapshot bad
You know when it says in the release notes, and pretty much every forum on the internet, that doing sVMotion migrations with snapshots attached to a vmdk is bad? Turns out they were right, and you...
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2009 and penguinpunk.net
It was a busy year, and I don’t normally do these type of posts, but I thought I’d try to do a year in review type thing so I can look back at the end of 2010 and see what kind of promises I’ve broken....
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Locked vmdk files
Somehow, a colleague of mine put an ESX host in a cluster into maintenance mode while VMs were still running. Or maybe it just happened to crash when she was about to do this. I don’t know how, and I’m...
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VMware Lab Manager, ssmove.exe and why I don’t care
Sounds like a depressing topic, but really it’s not all bad. As I’d mentioned previously, I’ve spent a good chunk of the previous 4 months commissioning a CLARiiON CX4-960 array and migrating data from...
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File system Alignment – All the kids are doing it
Ever since I was a boy, or, at least, ever since I started working with CLARiiON arrays (when R11 was, er, popular), I’ve been aware of the need to align file systems that lived on the array. I didn’t...
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File system Alignment redux
So I wrote a post a little while ago about filesystem alignment, and why I think it’s important. You can read it here. Obviously, the issue of what to do with guest OS file systems comes up from time...
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VMware – Changed Block Tracking
This is just a brief post for my own reference. A friend of mine had some backup problems on a VM recently. Seems they were using VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and had since added a...
View ArticleVMware Converter 3.0.3
As I mentioned previously, I had the opportunity last week to use VMware Converter 3.0.3. It worked a charm on a slightly odd P2V. Odd in the sense that the customer ripped 2 hard disks out of a HP...
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vmdk labelling
A colleague pointed out to me recently that VirtualCenter no longer has the annoying habit of creating vmdk files with the same labels across multiple datastores. For example, on VC 2.5 Build 104215,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creating a VMFS datastore
While everyone is talking about new VMwares, I’d like to focus on the mundane stuff. Creating a VMFS datastore on an ESX host is a relatively trivial activity, and something that you’ve probably done a...
View ArticlesVMotion with snapshot bad
You know when it says in the release notes, and pretty much every forum on the internet, that doing sVMotion migrations with snapshots attached to a vmdk is bad? Turns out they were right, and you...
View Article2009 and penguinpunk.net
It was a busy year, and I don’t normally do these type of posts, but I thought I’d try to do a year in review type thing so I can look back at the end of 2010 and see what kind of promises I’ve broken....
View ArticleLocked vmdk files
Somehow, a colleague of mine put an ESX host in a cluster into maintenance mode while VMs were still running. Or maybe it just happened to crash when she was about to do this. I don’t know how, and I’m...
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VMware Lab Manager, ssmove.exe and why I don’t care
Sounds like a depressing topic, but really it’s not all bad. As I’d mentioned previously, I’ve spent a good chunk of the previous 4 months commissioning a CLARiiON CX4-960 array and migrating data from...
View ArticleFile system Alignment – All the kids are doing it
Ever since I was a boy, or, at least, ever since I started working with CLARiiON arrays (when R11 was, er, popular), I’ve been aware of the need to align file systems that lived on the array. I didn’t...
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File system Alignment redux
So I wrote a post a little while ago about filesystem alignment, and why I think it’s important. You can read it here. Obviously, the issue of what to do with guest OS file systems comes up from time...
View ArticleVMware – Changed Block Tracking
This is just a brief post for my own reference. A friend of mine had some backup problems on a VM recently. Seems they were using VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and had since added a...
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