When trying to update a number of hosts in the ESXi cluster of a customer I first ran into the issue that scanning the host for updates would result in the following error: “Could not scan esx12 for patches”. Searching through the VMware KB I learned that this is probably due to a corrupted scratch partition […]
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Thoughts on VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform
At Techfield day, VMware presented to us delegates their Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and as expected all these geeks where very interested to see what VMware had to offer. Unfortunately the overall feeling was that the product as demonstrated to us was a bit disappointing. Of course it is still no released product, but even […]
VMware vCenter 4.1 GUI issue on shares
When checking a customers environment, I discovered a strange GUI issue in vCenter regarding CPU shares for a VM. I usually use a PowerShell script to check if the customer has set any limits, reservations or changed the default shares settings. With this customer I received a number of warnings about shares. I received the […]
Powershell: TimeSync in VMs and Windows w32time service settings
Customer of mine never heard about potential time sync problems in a virtual environment and when checking a number of VMs, I learned that they clearly had no default configuration for TimeSync in the VMware Tools. I decided to write a Powershell script that will list the VMware Tools setting for time sync and for […]
VMware vSphere client for iPad released too early
Today VMware released the long awaited VMware vSphere client for the iPad. Since VMworld 2010 the rumors where that the vSphere client for iPad would be released anytime soon, but unfortunately we had to wait until today before we could play with it. The VMware vSphere client for the iPad is FREE and great for […]