On Wednesday May 4th 2011 i took and passed my VMware VCP-410 exam. This is one certification that i have been after for a while so i am over the moon that I passed it. I have been studying hard for the exam for roughly 3 months as I started in February. Beginning of April …
Category: Virtualization
VCAP-DCA Study Guide
Sean Crookston, an IT Consultant has released an absolutely brilliant study guide for those looking to study got VMWARE’s VCAP-DCA. You can view and download it from here: http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca/ http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca-studyguide-ver3.pdf
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper A new white paper has been released which shows you how to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c9d141cf-c839-4728-af52-928f61bebdca Overview Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) provides continuous data protection for virtual machines hosted on servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This protection includes …
Hyper-V Resource Page
If you’re after one page full of Hyper-V resources this is it!! Check it out here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx
VMWARE ESX 4.0 Update 1 released
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u1_rel_notes.html What’s New The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX: VMware View 4.0 support – This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the protocol to the platform. Windows 7 and Windows 2008 …
Vmware Vsphere 4.0 ESXi 2008 R2 Server hanging
I recently experienced a problem when i was deploying 2008 R2 Servers on a VMWARE Vsphere ESXi 4.0 platform the server would hang after a few minutes of use. The problem to resolve this was to change the NIC type: After doing this no lock ups experienced 🙂
Slow RDP Performance on a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host
Hi, I recently encountered a problem on my Server 2008 R2 machine which is running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed. After creating a Virtual Network, when i connected via RDP to the server the performance was unbearable and was very unusable. After a little playing about i managed to find the problem. I disabled …
Hyper-V KB Updates
If you need to know where to find Hyper-V specific patch updates you can find them here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893%28WS.10%29.aspx
Running vSphere Client on Windows 7
When i recently set up my ESX box I had an error when i tried to launch the vSphere Client. Luckily there is a workaround for this problem for which the instructions are located here: http://www.techhead.co.uk/running-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-7 Hope they release an updated client soon!!
Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ab7f4983-93c5-4a70-8c79-0642f0d59ec2 Overview When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These components take advantage of the new high-speed bus, …