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VCDX Defense, what's it like?

RussellCorey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:12 GMT

As long as the whole of your design is comprehensive and can help someone get from a pile of servers, storage and network gear to a functional VMware architecture then you should be fine.

If a customer wants you to place a specific piece of information into a document that you feel its out of place then it shouldn't cast you in a negative light (at least in my opinion.) The end goal is to make sure you are capable of making architecture decisions and can confidently act as a VMware expert.

How to check which NIC takes over when Primary nic fails?

kenconrad2009 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:27:56 GMT

Simliar Question to this one. We are also Setting up as much redundancy as we can. V3.5 u4 and we have 10 NIC's. Want to have mutiple physical adapters for each Vswitch but we are also connected to 2 core physical cisco switches. Want to have standby for the 2nd physical switch incase we have a hardware failure of the actual switch.

Anyway that anyone is aware of to configure the nic's in standy mode or any other way to allow 4 NIC's to be in the vswitch with the 2 active NIC's connected to the active core switch and 2 in standby mode pointing to the 2nd Physcial switch ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Thinapp and AVG Anti-Virus, false positive!

KoenVerheyden — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:53:32 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone have an update on this issue ? we requested a trendmicro support case with our local vendor, but till now we don't have any feedback. Maybe someone else had more success ?

what would be a good pattern file version to rollback to ? i guess this rollback would impact all TM officescan clients, or can the rollback be applied to a certain number of clients ?

thx

Clone and roll out template fail with "failed to connect to host"

smudge1977 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:55:47 GMT

Rather than loose all you performance data this article:

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http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/24/clone-and-roll-out-template-fail-with-failed-to-connect-to-host/

This sql should update:

UPDATE VCDB.dbo.VPX_HOST*
SET IP_ADDRESS = ‘w.x.y.z'
*WHERE DNS_NAME = ‘name of esx host as it is listed in the table'

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VirtualCenter Update 3 just been released!

depping — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:49:14 GMT

VirtualCenter Update 3 has just been released. It contains fixes for the "incompatible network check" during HA configurations, the fact that you couldn't delete advanced options any more and the maintenance mode issues.

Duncan
Blogging: http://www.yellow-bricks.com

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Default Isolation response changed in VC 2.5 U2 and ESX 3.5

depping — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:21:52 GMT

I'm also curious what people think the best option would be? I tend to go for "shutdown vm".

Duncan
My virtualisation blog:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com

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VMware ESX: Deleting snapshots

depping — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:51:25 GMT

1) When deleting multiple level snapshots it would be handy to have an option to delete a snapshot when they are committed instead of merging all snapshots into eachother and deleting them when all is inserted into the main disk. this would save a lot of disk space and make snapshot removal / troubleshooting a lot easier.

2) A revert and stop snapshot mode option would be handy, instead of continuing the snapshot mode when you revert.

Connection error - could not read from connection

depping — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:50:57 GMT

We've upgraded to version 2 and the problem is also gone. Thanks for the effort everyone.

I've tested the root update cert just to be sure and it seems to also fix this problem. great work!