With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!

Scott Lowe has written an interesting post about enabling jumbo frames for VMware’s software iSCSI initiator. VMware does not support this (yet) but it appears you can already enable it. For full details, check his blogpost.
A jumbo frame’s size is typically set at 9000 versus the standard size of around 1500. Setting the frame size [...]

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§82 · May 28, 2008 · VMWare · (No comments) ·


Another request via email:
I am trying to create a windows 2000 server cluster in vmware workstation 6.0 and I am having some issues with the scsi disks (not working).

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§7 · May 28, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags:


The problem: Getting consistent backups of Windows, SQL, Exchange and Oracle while hot backing up VM’s at the VMDK levelIn the physical world you have backups that use Volume Shadow copy to backup files and databases. All the tape backup vendors use this when working with SQL, Exchange and now the latest version of Oracle [...]

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§74 · May 23, 2008 · VMWare · (No comments) ·


Another interesting problem found via the internet!

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§69 · May 21, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · 1 comment · Tags:


Alexander Gaiswinker created a storage vmotion graphical user interface and posted it in the VMware community.

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§72 · May 19, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


According to virtualization.info, EMC is looking to offload Vmware to, of all companies, Intel!

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§79 · May 19, 2008 · VMWare · (No comments) ·


It turns out I am a little slow on the uptake! Dynagen 0.11.0 is now available.

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§76 · May 16, 2008 · Dynagen · (No comments) ·


Virtual machines set via “CPU Affinity” don’t apply their settings straight away. The solution is pretty simple.

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§67 · May 14, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags:


Good morning, my faithful readers! If you have run 3.5 on workstation 6 you might have received this error before:

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§66 · May 12, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags:


Another question via email, “When I reboot the Virtual Center (virtual) machine, the Virtual Center service will not run.”

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§64 · May 11, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: