A new KB was released yesterday (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696), in which I noticed something interesting. ESXi Installable creates a 4 GB Fat16 partition on the target device during installation if there is sufficient space, and if the device is considered Local. This made me prick up my ears, as only a couple of weeks ago I was […]
(Update: BTW, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do like this KB very much, I think it’s an excellent resource.) One of my more popular posts that I wrote a couple of years ago was about configuring Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) on VMs. Getting MSCS configured correctly in VMs has always been tricky. Even now […]
I want a template replicator vApp… Here’s the problem: Companies that have more than one office split by a WAN link, have problems keeping their templates in sync. There are two common approaches to this: 1) When updating a template, touch each site and update the same template in each location. 2) Update a master […]
I thought I’d write a quick message about this, as much for my own reference. Maybe someone else out will find it useful one day. Its purpose is to document the changes made by the esx 3.5 to 4.x rollback script. Normally when you do 3.5 > 4.x upgrade, if the upgrade fails then it […]