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Updated Performance Links

mikesz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:27:47 GMT

I updated some of the links on the attached presentation about performance.

Consultants Washington DC

jfinnerty08 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:22:24 GMT

Could someone please suggest a consulting group in the DC area. We currently are 90% Server Virtualized and 30% Desktop and do 90% of everything ourselves but we need that occasional expertise that goes beyond ours. We also need EMC support.

Thank you

Vista Software Group is looking to grow by adding VMWare Expertise

drmendoza — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:54:09 GMT

We have an immediate opening for a certified VmWare consultant that would like to provide consulting services for an application performance monitoring solution that monitors ESX servers. This is for a contract position where a Quarterly bonus is available. Weekly travel required.

The position is for a consultant to install monitoring solutions (three different products) into VMWare and other virtual environments. Additional requirements include training customers on the monitoring solutions in a VMWare environment as well as debugging implementation issues. The top candidates must be self starters, customer focused, can work independently and have a strong virtual back ground with the following technologies is required:

VMWare, VMWare View, APP V, Hyper V, and some core technologies like Citrix/TS, SSL etc.

Training on the monitoring products will be provided

Certification in Virtual technologies is preferred

David Mendoza
Vista Software Group
760-415-3882

Systems Administrator with heavy VMWare experience needed in Reston...

hrobins — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:07 GMT

Hi all,

My team is currently looking to fill a full-time permanent Windows/VMWare Systems Administration role with our client in Reston, VA. The person hired will be leading the infrastructure from its current mostly physical server environment to an almost entirely virtual server environment. A brief overview of the role is below... please feel free to reach out to me (heather.robins@workbridgeassociates.com) if you or anyone you know might be interested in learning more about the job.

A Reston, VA based
company has a job for a Lead Network Engineer to support their
enterprise server environment This organization is one of the top
companies in their industry and has been in business for over 50 years
and they have great stability. This person will be the senior member of
a team that supports 250+ servers, Exchange 2007, VMware ESX 3.5, the
Active Directory architecture, and the enterprise back-ups. They are
planning to virtualize the majority of the servers and will also be
moving to Vsphere 4.0 in the near future.

Requirements:

4+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Windows Administrator.
VMware ESX 3.5 or Vsphere 4.0
Active Directory
Backup Exec or Netbackup
Lead Experience or Management experience
MCSE, VCP or a Degree are strongly desired
Exchange 2003 or 2007 is also strongly desired

This
organization is looking to hire immediately. They have excellent health
care, vacation and 401(k) benefits.

Best,

Heather

October VMUG Meeting Full already!?

Punkdefied — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:49:02 GMT

Just got the email blast and immediately went to register then just got an automated email response saying its full.

Seems like perhaps the facility sizing requirements for DC's User Group needs to be reevaluated...

Data Storage Day at the Usenix LISA Conference - Nov 4th - Baltimore

usenixaa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:19 GMT

Data Storage Day is a one-day FREE event being held at the Usenix LISA Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on November 4, 2009.

As you might imagine, Data Storage Day is a day of lectures and related activities that are specific to the recen advancements in the data storage industry. The day begins with the LISA conference keynote by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. It includes a series of lectures, access to the LISA vendor expo, a box lunch, and a happ hour.

Some of the topics covered include:

Deduplication - for backups, archiving, and primary storage
Accelerating applications with solid state disk
Storage virtualization
Tiered storage automation
Cloud storage
Scale-out file systems

Event information can be found here

What is USENIX?

The USENIX Association is a non-profit organization whose mission is the advancement of information technology. Usenix has been around since the 70s, offering a variety of publications and conferences. For those doing research in computer science and information technology USENIX provides a forum for presenting and publishing their work. For consumers of information technology USENIX represents a community of people on the cutting edge who do not have a commercial agenda.About The LISA Conference -- Large Installation System Administration LISA is one of the largest conferences produced by USENIX. It is a mix of formal training, informal "guru sessions", posters sessions, and invited talks. The talks are all delivered by real industry experts (the people whowrite the books, articles, best practices, etc.), not by sales and marketing people! The LISA conference is a great place to meet your peers running some of the world's most demanding IT operations.

The conference is produced in conjunction with these other nonprofit organizations:

SAGE - The System Administrators Special Interest Group

LOPSA - The League of Professional System Integrators

SNIA - The Storage Networking Industry Association

To Register for Data Storage Day, click here

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - Storage Day Agenda\

8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

LISA '09 Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote

For more information is available here\

10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

Data Storage Day Welcome

The Evolution of Storage Networking and the Current Trends in the Industry
This session sets the stage for the subsequent lectures at Data Storage Day. We start by looking at how today's enterprise SAN and NAS solutions evolved from humble direct-attached disk and file servers. We then turn our sights to the industry trends that are shaping the current wave of innovation. Specifically, we are interested in deduplication, storage virtualization, solid state storage devices, automated management of tiered storage, cloud storage, and massively scalable file systems.

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Deduplication and Single Instance Storage: Practical Applications for Backups, Archiving, and Primary Storage
Deduplication (dedupe) and single instance storage (SIS) are perhaps the hottest topics in the storage industry. EMC just acquired a dedupe startup for over two billion dollars! Meanwhile, all of the leading backup vendors are scrambling to integrate dedupe into their products. But this is just the beginning of a major new technology trend! Dedupe offers benefits not just for backups, but also for cloud storage, archiving, virtual desktops, and even primary storage for high performance production servers and VMs.

This session is broken into three parts:

The first section discusses the fundamental technology of dedupe, revealing both the shortcomings of current approaches and the opportunities for new solutions.
The second section focuses on dedupe for backups. We illustrate different ways to integrate dedupe into backup systems as well as revealing non-dedupe approaches that might deliver similar results at lower costs.
Lastly, we describe applications for dedupe and SIS in rich media archives, virtual desktops, and primary storage.

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Visit the Vendor Exhibition. Find out more about the exhibition here\

2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Tiered Storage and Life Cycle Management: Running the Gamut All the Way from Solid State Disk to Linear Tape
The goal of this session is to identify the most effective ways to scale storage performance and capacity while controlling costs. The session is broken into three parts:

We begin with a general discussion of tiered storage, suggesting different properties of storage devices that can be used to define tiers. We raise the question of whether it makes sense (financially and from the standpoint of complexity) to roll out a tiered strategy versus settling on a single class of storage for all of one's needs.
The next section analyzes the performance and reliability properties of different types of storages devices. We look at spinning disk (15K, 10K, SATA), solid state disk (MLC, SLC, RAM), and even tape drives.
Lastly, we look at technologies for automating the management of tiered storage in a variety of different scenarios.

Topics covered include: solid state disk, virtual file systems, file stubbing, archival file system, tape file system, NAS accelerators, file system caching, block I/O caching, and hot-spotting.

3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

A Primer on Cloud Storage and High Capacity File Systems
The momentum behind cloud computing has really lit a fire under the chairs of developers of storage management software and file systems. Conventional storage technologies cannot scale limitlessly, not to mention that they are too rigid to expand and contract with the ebb and flow of the cloud. The cloud demands a whole new class of file systems and storage management approaches. As it turns out, the problems being tackled by cloud storage providers are problems that exist in private large-scale storage sites, so regardless of whether you plan to put compute resources in the cloud, you might find that cloud storage technology is relevant to you.

This session looks at the current state of cloud storage solutions while defining the basic terminology and illustrating the major problems left to solve. Special focus is given to object-based storage models as alternatives to conventional file systems.

5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Storage Day Questions, Answers, and Wrap-Up

5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Exhibit Hall Happy Hour

Join us at the Vendor Exhibition for refreshments, and take the opportunity to learn about the latest products and technologies.

7:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

Evening Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. Find out more here\

August 13th Presentation and Topics for Next DC VMUG

joshuatownsend — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:42:05 GMT

In case anyone missed it, Mike Szafranski uploaded his presentation from the August 13th DC VMUG to the documents section of this site. Here's the link: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10503

I am working on choosing a topic for our next meeting and want your help. We can focus on a broad topic (e.g. storage) or get specific around a particular issue (e.g. using powershell scripting to report on guests with .ISO's attached). I would also welcome anyone who attended VMworld 2009 to report on the conference and specifics of what they learned, highlights from a particular session, etc.

We also would welcome any customer/user presentations during VMUG meetings - anything from reference architecture to how you solved a specific problem in your environment would be great. Real-life user presentations will help to keep the VMUG meetings technically focused and interactive.

Please feel free to reply or send me a direct message with topic ideas or to volunteer for a presentation at our next meeting.

Thanks!
Josh Townsend

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Cisco Systems - Full time job - Sr. Data Center Virtualization Engineer - Top Secret Clearance required

sadakapm — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:48:52 GMT

Hi Virtualization Guru's,

Cisco is actively looking to hire several Datacenter Virtualization Engineers with Top Secret Clearance.

Cisco came up with a Blade Server with VMware ESX virtualization technology and we are actively looking for engineers in Washington, DC area.

Contact me at mohamali@cisco.com or call me at 408-853-3523

Full Time opporltunity in Washington DC or Herndon, VA

Mohamed Ali

Cisco System

mohamali@cisco.com

Follow Cisco UCS at twitter.com/cisco_ucs

Looking for TS cleared VMWare engineer

cindyn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:33:24 GMT

Hello,

I am searching for a Top Secret cleared VMware engineer for an amazing opportunity with a client in Washington, DC. This is a service-oriented, technically driven Senior LAN administrator position. The qualified candidate will work closely with all LAN administrators to execute installs of customer systems into the Data Center. Position requires shift work, ability to diagnose the causal factors associated with loss of system availability. The position also requires attention to detail and the ability to follow written and verbal instructions issued by LAN administrators, and customer management in a fast paced client server environment. Ability to work through issues associated with LAN configuration, software, and hardware. Ability to perform initial troubleshooting of server, problem escalation to the Senior LAN administrators. Experience with network architectures TCP/IP, server hardware/software installation, configuration and support. Install new, and upgrade existing, software, monitor daily backups of servers including conducting periodic audits. Document all changes/issues/problems related to maintaining the servers and LAN.
Primary:
· Extensive background in Windows 2000/2003 administration and AD
· Comprehensive knowledge of VMware ESX 5 years experience
· Experience in a world wide network
· Various server hardware platforms General knowledge of SAN technology
· IIS and Web Services
· SQL Server and Oracle
· SAN, NAS, iSCSI
· Server Recovery
Data Mirroring
Secondary:
· High-level knowledge of multiple technologies
· Customer service background
· The ability to communicate at multiple levels including staff and customers.
· Project management and execution skills
· Excellent analytical, oral and written communications.

Top Secret or Interim Top Secret Required

If you are interested or know someone who may be, feel free to call me at 888-824-7104 or email either me at cn03@verizon.net or my colleague, Liz at liz@wwrec.com with a good time and number to contact you.

Thanks,

cindy

DC VMUG - October

VReese — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:32:30 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Please check back often as I will posting information about any upcoming VMUG's.

I work for Infinite Group, Inc. (http://www.igius.com/), and I am responsible for coordinating the VMUG's. If you ever have any questions, comments, or concerns in regards to the VMUGs (to be added to the mailing list, topics, sponsors, etc), please feel free to email me! vreese@igius.com

We'd love to have feedback from you as to whether you found the previous VMUG informative, or perhaps what topics you would want to learn about at the next event (like vSphere 4!)

We are planning to host VMUG in DC this October (so that it is Metro accessible), but there are more details that need to be discussed before any decisions are made!

I look forward to hearing from everyone.

Victoria Reese

Infinite Group, Inc.

www.IGIus.com

Is it possible to do a Linux P2V to a VMware Workstation virtual machine?

SangHGo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:54:51 GMT

I have a CentOS5 flavor of Linux running a physical machine and I want to virtualize it into a VMware Workstation virtual machine, but am unable to. The VMware Converter standalone version has been installed on the Linux machine, and the server has been started successfully. I've installed VMware Converter standalone version for Windows on another physical Windows machine and can select the Linux box as the source (meaning that I can connect to the Linux box), but for the destination, only the virtual infrastructure is shown (ESX environment), which I do not have. Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation of free VMware converter standalone version?

Vizioncore vs. Veeam - thoughts? Am I missing any?

dcbundy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:39:02 GMT

Good afternoon.

We're in the planning stages of our new vSphere4 build-out. Hardware is in, storage is in and is being configured as we speak. (It's almost like Christmas in June) In preparate for the moitoring - performance reporting portion of this build, I've been researching both Vizioncore and Veeam. I've been known to miss the completely obvious, so I will ask this just to make sure -- is there another big player in the reporting/monitoring field that I'm missing? We have a current ESX 3.0.1 build that is doing the basic of the basic (4 filemaker servers, a couple departmental sandboxes, etc) all of which is on local storage, with a NFS mount for clones, templates, etc. so a robust monitoring, reporting tool wasn't required. We gave the old vRanger (?) product a while ago, and it was so so. Haven't tried any of the Veeam products yet, but from what I've read, seems to be a bit ahead as of this writing as far as popularity.

Has anyone in this group used any of the two vendor's products, specifically the monitoring / reporting ones, but would like to hear your thoughts on all of them.

I may have met a few of you at the VMForum 2009 at the Reagan building... a little too high-level sales pitch rather than a meat and potatoes vSphere4 run-through, which is what I wished it would have been, but that's another discussion for later.....

Looking forward to meeting everyone at the July 2009 meeting.

Thanks,

D. Chrys Bundy

Sr. Network Specialist

National Geographic Society

Washington, DC

cbundy \at/ ngs.org

@cway1979 on twitter

August 13th VMUG

juliafanning — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:21:36 GMT

Good Morning All!

Sorry for the delay in getting the next VMUG up and going.

The next VMUG will be Thursday, August 13th at the VMware Reston office - 1902 Campus Commons Dr. Reston, VA 20191

Veeam will be the lunch sponsor. Time and other details TBD.

Mark your calendars! I will have another update for you with all details either by the end of this week or early next week. And, again, if you'd like to be added to the DC VMUG mailing list, please email me at jfanning@igius.com

Thanks!

Julia C. Fanning
Infinite Group, Inc.

Virtuallization Infrastructure

rotoole — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:28:10 GMT

Hello VMWare professionals,

My name is Rob O'Toole and I am with Synergy Services. We are an IT consulting firm in the Wasingotn DC area and are currently in need of a Virtualization Infrastructure Systems Administrator for a 6 month temp to hire project in Bethesda, MD. We seek talented individuals with VMWare/SAN experience.

Pay rate is $80-100k with potential to go higher. We also hire W2 hourly and 1099 consultants.

If anyone is interested in learning more about Synergy Services and this project please email me at rotoole@synergysvs.com

July DC VMUG

juliafanning — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:12 GMT

Hi All!

Unfortunately, we aren't going to be able to have the next VMUG in June. Instead, we are shooting for the second week of July in Ballston, VA. (Arlington). Right next to the Orange Line Virginia Square metro stop.

Keep an eye out for more information. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list for DC VMUG please send an email to myself, jfanning@igius.com And, again, keep the ideas coming!

Thanks!

Julia Fanning

Looking for VMware Engineers

RandomGreen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:33:44 GMT

My company, a great one to work for, has openings for VMware engineers,
for post-sales implementations. I am a pre-sales solutions architect
for GreenPages, working from home in Maryland most of the time, doing
remote and on-site implementations for storage supporting virtual
servers. I hope this sort of post is allowed.

AttentionVirtualization Engineers:

If You’re Seriously Talented, We’re Seriously Interested.

*An Environment Built for Engineers. *
GreenPagesTechnology Solutions provides a supportive environment for engineers looking to grow their careers and realize high earnings potential. Join a challenging, technology focused environment, earn a competitive salary and benefits package, receive the training you need to stay ahead of the curve, and work in a casual, smart, and fast-paced organization.

*GreenPagesis looking for Virtualization Engineers/ Consultants with a minimum of 3-5years experience in the field consulting, designing, and implementing VMwaresolutions. We have positions open in New England{size:10pt}{color:blue} {size:10pt}and New York City and the surrounding areas . Join GreenPages anddrive the virtualization solutions that will help our customers across thecountry navigate new technology landscapes. *

Let’s Get Granular.

The successfulcandidate will need an in-depth understanding of VMware, Microsoft, Networking,and SAN infrastructure from both a design and engineering perspective. You’llbe responsible for implementation of virtualization products and systems thatsupport virtualization, including all server hardware, networking, and operating systems including Microsoft and Linux. While conducting implementations, you’ll also be responsible for performing knowledge transfer to customers and looking for additional opportunities to help improve their environment.

Share Strategies Across Technology Disciplines.

Workwithin our engineering team and engage with experts across all technologycompetencies: applications, data management, IT & business management, and network & infrastructure competencies. Work closely with a team of talented, highly accredited, certified virtualization experts who help organizations assess, plan, test, build, manage, and maintain best-of-breed virtualized environments.

{size:11pt}{color:green}Essential Duties Include:

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Assess & Consult
Perform needs analysis, information gathering on client expectations and technical baselines for writing or technical review of Statements of Work. Assist Project Managers in writing the scope of work and technical assumptions of the Statements of Work or if performed by a provider, confirm these two aspects.

Plan & Build
Perform consultation, implementation, documentation, and knowledge transfer forbillable engagements
Provide technical reviews and reviews of both existing and potentialmanufacturers for their technical competency

Manage &Maintain
Stay up to date on emerging technologies andproducts, including attaining certifications and participation in industryevents as appropriate
Work with the Professional Services organization to maintain both company anddepartment goals

MinimumQualifications

MCSE2003, VMWare VCP certified

Excellent technical writing skills forpre-sales work and project documentation

· Ability to communicate and present tomultiple levels within our clients
· Ability to multi-task and prioritize
· Ability to interface with sales, other support departments and serviceproviders

Estimated 50%travel required.

Every project is different. Every business need is unique.

Every solution requires a sharp engineering mind that can help our customers reach their goals.

Join Us.

April 24, 2009 VMUG Presentation - IGI

juliafanning — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:30:53 GMT

Here is the Infinite Group, Inc. presentation from the April 24th VMUG.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Thanks,
Julia Fanning
Infinite Group, Inc.
jfanning@igius.com

Upcoming VMUG - DC

juliafanning — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:28:34 GMT

Hello All!

I am in the process of planning the next DC VMUG, and I wanted to get some comments and suggestions on where to have it. Any ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions?

We are planning on having a day long event, with lots of hands-on activities, food, drink! Hoping to make this one a little more interesting!

Open to suggestions! Hope to hear from you.

Thanks!
Julia Fanning
Infinite Group, Inc.
jfanning@igius.com

Looking for VMware VCP to join VMware Partner

kmashaal — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:13:04 GMT

To whom it may concern:

We are looking to expand our current VCP's to maintain our Partner Status with VMware. We need someone who has obtained VCP and can allow us to have it registered with our organization - Reach Systems Inc. (http://www.reachsysinc.com). In exchange, we will provide part time to full time work based on business or work out mutually beneficial terms. Please send info to kmashaal@reachsysinc.com.

Regards,

Karam Mashaal

President

Reach Systems, Inc.

703-288-8751

DC VMUG's

juliafanning — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:36:58 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Please check back often as I will posting information about any upcoming VMUG's. I work for Infinite Group, Inc. (www.IGIus.com), and I am responsible for coordinating the VMUG's. If you ever have any questions, comments, or concerns in regards to the VMUGs (as to location, times, topics, sponsors, etc), please feel free to email me! jfanning@igius.com

We'd love to have feedback from you as to whether you found the previous VMUG informative, or perhaps what topics you would want to learn about at the next event (like vSphere 4!)

There is talk about having a VMUG in Reston, but there are more details that need to be discussed before any decisions are made!

I look forward to hearing from everyone.

Julia Fanning
jfanning@igius.com
Virtualization Sales Associate
Infinite Group, Inc.
www.IGIus.com

Upcoming VMUG meeting

Configuresoft — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:56:54 GMT

Configuresoft is interested in sponsoring an upcoming DC VMUG meeting. Please let me know who I can contact to discuss. Thanks.

Seeking a Citrix Administrator for a Permanant F/T Position in DC

smallory — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:34:13 GMT

Hello all-

I am the Recruiting Manager at G&B Solutions, Inc., an IT Solutions and Management Consulting firm. We are in the market for a Citrix Admnistrator. If you are interested or know anyone who may be interested in the position, please contact me via email at ~~smallory@gbsolutionsinc.com.Thanks~~!

G&B Solutions, Inc., has an opportunity for a Citrix Administrator in Washington, DC:

Job Description: - Implementation of best practice procedures for Citrix and network architecture design, development, implementation, and maintenance/support. - Citrix Support and Level 1, 2, & 3 troubleshooting with strong client support experience. - Windows, Terminal Services, Active Directory and GPO troubleshooting. - Implementation of applications to run in a Terminal Services environment - Development and planning for Citrix infrastructure upgrades - Documentation of procedures used for Citrix administration - Training of other technical employees on Citrix administration

Requirements - CCA, CCIA, or CCEA 4.0 Certification - 3-5 years experience with Citrix - Windows Server experience with Active Directory - Customer service skills

G&B Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of VSE Corporation, is a high-end Management Consulting and IT Solutions company. We serve as trusted advisors to senior executives across the Federal Government. Our cornerstones are enterprise-wide business and technical architectures, IT security, and IT infrastructure support. We provide flexibility and quality solutions to our customers. Please feel free to visit our website for more information at www.gbsolutionsinc.com. G&B Solutions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, females, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Pay scale in Washington DC area

biozfear — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:03:33 GMT

Hi all,

Your group seemed the best one to ask this question due to your location, apologies if there is a better place for it.

My company is currently in the process of moving it's office from Wales in the UK to around the Washington DC area, with rumours of Montogomery County being selected (though nothing has been confirmed). This week they are asking each member for staff if they would like to relocate and if so, what they would like for relocation and pay at the other end.

I'm not too familiar with any jobsites in the US but I've been trying to arm myself with a few figures on pay in this area before I go into the meetings as well as researching relocation packages I should go for.

Could anyone tell me what you would expect/hope to get for a Systems Engineer, 5 years experience with VCP/MCSE? Don't want to go into too much detail but what sort of pay scale is average in this area for this sort of position (or what would I need to live comfortably)? Alternatively could anyone point me in the direction of any job sites for the industry that I could search for examples?

Thanks in advance

How do I output VirtualCenter folder Permissions using Powershell?

dmustakasjr — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:00:11 GMT

I need to find a way to output the folder/virtualmachine role permissions to a document or spreadsheet. When in VC using the Virtual Machines & Templates inventory view you can see all of your datacenters and folders listed. I need to output the list of the entire structure to file. I tried the Appendix: Perl Script for listing all role assignments in the http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_roles.pdf http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_roles.pdf. That only tells me the VM permissions and I need all child folder permissions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

DC Area - VMware User group

thenile — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:22:33 GMT

When is the next meeting ? . Looking forward to join the meeting.

-M

Standalone ESX servers to run a single Windows VM

twooding — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:16:36 GMT

Is anyone using standalone ESX servers to run a single Windows VM, in a production environment. My company signed an agreement, and we have to use 5000 ESX Enterprise licenses. One suggestion my boss came up with was to load ESX on all of our new servers, and then load the Windows OS on the ESX server as a VM. The one big problem that me and the VM support staff have with this, is the management aspect. With all of these standalone ESX servers that would flood our environment, we would have to manually patch each one of the host and the guests OS that is on them. I just basically want to know if anybody else is doing this in a production environment, and if so, how is it being managed...

Virtualization Forum 2008 - Washington DC

r.wilco — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:49:16 GMT

Did anyone else find yesterday's VMware Virtualization Forum 2008 in Washington DC to be a disappointing waste of time (for the most part)?

VMUG - August 28th

dcap — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:10:36 GMT

Just got my invite. Looks like the meeting is in Arlington.

Details are here: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/Q3%2008%20Invites/WashingtonDC_82808.html

Registration here: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/ug-signup.php?session=WashingtonDC

VMworld...who's going? DC VMUG meeting in Vegas?

amurph — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:45:50 GMT

So who's going to VMworld this year? I think it would be a lot of fun to get the DC VMUG crew together at some point to hang out and compare notes.

I'm getting out there sunday afternoon. I know that langonej is going, but I don't know when. Who else is making the trek to Sin City?

Does anyone have a VI3 Design, Secure, Analyze (DSA) Book & Lab Manual?

langonej — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:37:50 GMT

I took the class a year or so ago and can't seem to find the books in my stack of VMware stuff. I'm studying for the VCDX and realized that a good portion of these questions come from this class. I'm going through all the published PDFs and my notes but it would be a lot quicker to have this book.

If I can borrow this book for a week or so I will share my VCDX: Enterprise Exam Study Guide with you. I'm taking the test in a week or so. I'll drive to come pick it up and even buy coffee.

If someone could make this happen on Monday I would greatly appreciate it!

Cheers and happy Independence Day,

Jason

July Meeting?

dcap — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:17:09 GMT

Is there a July meeting scheduled?

Will administer your VI3 env for food :)

IB_IT — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:43:40 GMT

Hey all,
Just recieved word that my facility will be closing. I don't know all the details yet, but I have been "out of the game" for awhile...about 8 years. Alot has changed since then, as well as my job duties. Was just curious what the market looked like for this area for VMWare admins. I will be working through July, but obviously need to start looking now. If anyone knows of anything in the area, let me know please!! I have already submitted my resume to Stefan at iGeekSystems. Anyone know of any other good job search resources for VMWare admins? I have done some searching on washpost jobs and monster, but alot of them require active clearances, which I do not have (but am capable of recieving them). Ideally, the northern VA area would be best. Thanks for your help.

Virtualization Management Solutions

dcap — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:57:01 GMT

What are folks doing in terms of management solutions? I assume everyone has VirtualCenter but are folks looking at other specialized management technologies to deal with config management, "sprawl", performance management, etc or are you relying on your physical vendors to deliver solutions for your virtual infrastructure?

Recap: April 23rd DC Metro VMUG Meeting

langonej — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:50:20 GMT

http://www.systemsarchitech.com/en/article/92/recap-april-dc-metro-vmug

Many thanks to the great folks from NetApp for sponsoring our third DC Metro VMWare User Group meeting last night. The event was held at McCormick & Schmick's at the Reston Town Center. |!http://www.systemsarchitech.com/images/63.jpg!|

We had terrific guest speakers last night including Andy Murphy, Principle Systems Engineer at NetStar Systems International, Desi Whalen, Systems Engineer at NetApp and crowd favorite, Andrew Stueve, Senior System Engineer at Neovera.

First up, Andy gave a great presentation regarding Distributed Power Management including how his organization is calculating energy savings thanks to DPM. Andy gave a before and after take on his DPM-enabled VI3 cluster, and provided some food for thought to all of the energy-conscious in the room.

The Q&A from this session covered topics such as headaches along the way, considerations for HA pools and potential solutions regarding scheduled tasks.

Next up, Desi Whalen from NetApp gave a very technically engaging presentation regarding the advantages of using a NetApp provided storage infrastructure under a VMWare environment. Desi provided some great use-cases including backup strategies and virtual machine provisioning. By far, the most compelling argument was the cloning of 100 virtual machines in under 15 minutes. Good show!

Last night was also the first time that a show of hands resulted in a majority - the question? "Who here has used or is using NetApp storage?"

Finally, Andrew Stueve shared his experiences with the 3.0 -> 3.5 upgrade process, including the (sometimes) painful Virtual Center upgrade. Andrew covered all of the major gotchas and then allowed the audience to pick his brain on other topics, from NFS storage to Exchange virtual machine heroics.

Last night was full of great questions and answers from people like Samtha Attamagoda (pictured here) from Fannie Mae and Kanuj Behl from IGI.

As always, the VMUG meetings are a great place to network with area professionals. I finally was able to put a face to a name with Ken Cline from Wells Landers and had the pleasure of speaking with many of the attendees.

The next DC VMUG meeting will be held in early July and will also move back inside the beltway. Details will be posted in the coming weeks.

Thanks to all for another fantastic meeting. Topics on the horizon for the July event include Life Cycle Manager and perhaps application virtualization.

As always, if you would like to speak at this event, please contact me via this page.

Agenda for April 23rd DC Metro VMUG Meeting

langonej — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:38:35 GMT

I'm looking for feedback regarding the agenda for our next VMUG meeting.

Introductions - Who am I, who the sponsors are and a tease for the upcoming topics.

Technical Topic #1 - Looking for speakers or ideas. We could discuss fiber channel load balancing, disaster recovery

Sponsor demonstration. Prepare for ooh's and ahh's. I've got another storage vendor offering to sponsor. Would you like to see something tailored to disaster recovery? Open to suggestions.

From the Field - Guest speaker talking about experiences with VMWare in the enterprise. Also looking for speakers.

Q&A.

Wrap-Up.

Jason

Who's interested in having a meeting soon?

Ken.Cline — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:22:48 GMT

I'm not sure what's happened to Jason, but there have been no updates about the tentative April 23rd meeting in quite a while. Who out there is interested in having a meeting? If we can get a group interested, we can figure out the when/where/what details. If the group isn't too large, we can likely meet at my office in Tysons Corner. If we get more than 15 or so folks, we may need to look elsewhere.

Let's judge the interest level and go from there.

Ken Cline
Technical Director, Virtualization
Wells Landers
VMware Communities User Moderator

Dual Nic

Anthony_Wash — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:36:55 GMT

I have a Dell server with dual nic in in the main box. I'm running the free version of vmware with nic one is used for the main box with IP 10.12.X.X and the VMServer using the other nic with IP 192.168.X.X. The problem I'm having is when you try to RDP into either one of the server it just sit there and want give you a screen with icons. Is there a way to fix this because I'm on the same network as the 10.12.X.X subnet and I still can't RDP into the box. There is a conflict with the two nics talking to one other but how do you fix it.

AX150i vs S550

centauritopper — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:57:15 GMT

Hi all,

I have tried searching around for my answer but I haven't found any relevant information so I thought this would be the best place to seek out my answers. First of all, I am putting together an internal test/dev environment for my company that will support several VMs across several projects. We will be purchasing a nice Dell R900 very soon, but I am not sure which SAN solution to get. The budget for our SAN is around $5,000 so keep that in mind. The two that I am currently comparing is the Dell/EMC AX150i and the StoreVault/NetApp S550. Both have 12 bays and support iSCSI and the price for 1-1.5TB is ~$5,000. I am leaning toward the S550 because of it's feature set and NAS/NFS capabilities, but if the AX150 is a clear winner then there's no question which to go with

I also must stress that this is not for a production environment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

No supported network devices found on ABIT AMD X2 motherboard

gcastel_gd-ns — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:10:07 GMT

VMware friends,

I am trying to load VMWare Infrastructure 3 eval on my dual core AMD processor system - Athlon 64 X2 4400+ on motherboard ABIT NF-M2S - and I continue to get the failure message about not being able to find a compatible network devices. Does anyone know where I can get the proper drivers for this built-in NIC card or know what the underlying problem might be here? Is there a support matrix, aka EMC style, somewhere that might tell me the compatible motherboards & hardware for I3?

Thanks all,

Greg in Oakton, VA

The DC Metro VMUG is now an official LinkedIn Group

langonej — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:18:52 GMT

To all of those interested or actively participating in the DC Metro VMWare User Group (VMUG), I ask that you join the newly formed LinkedIn group:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/59525/79E4970EB302

Jason Langone

Next Meeting?

dcap — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:50:31 GMT

Is there any info on the next meeting?

Reminder: January 23rd DC VMUG Meeting at Old Ebbitt Grill in NW Washington, DC

langonej — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:24:18 GMT

January '08 DC Metro VMUG Meeting

When: Wednesday, January 23rd.
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm EST.
Where: Old Ebbitts Grill. 675 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005.
Who's Invited: Anyone interested in VMWare technology.
RSVP?: Yes. Please email me or RSVP by replying to this thread.
Cost: Data Domain has graciously offered to host this event!
Directions: For those taking the Metro, Old Ebbitts Grill is located at Metro Center.

If you are interested in speaking at this evening, please let me know when you RSVP.

VM has not network connectivity

Dinty — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:38:52 GMT

I have 4 Windows 2003 VMs running in VMWare Server 1.0.3 all on a 2003 host OS. 3 of the VMs are fine but one of them has no network connectivity. I can not ping the machine and it can not ping anything. However, Windows in the VM is not displaying any error messages. All of the VMs us the bridged networking connection.

Any clues?

Virtual Appliances - Telelogic System Architect or Troux Architect

kaustubhpradhan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:54:42 GMT

Hello All:

Any idea if Virtual Appliances with System Architect or Troux Architect exist ? If so, can anyone please send me the appropriate links ?

Thanks in Advance

Kaustubh

DC Metro Area VMUG - January Agenda Discussion & Request for Speakers

langonej — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:59:43 GMT

I'm finalizing details for a DC Metro Area (Northern VA, DC, Southern MD) VMUG meeting in late January. Sponsorship, venue and other details will be announced shortly.

In the meantime, I'd like to officially request anyone that is interested in speaking to please reply to this thread, contact me via my site (www.SystemsArchiTECH.com), or send me a private message via this forum. I'm open to all topics such as security, pitfalls encountered, unique solutions, favorite third-party app, et cetera.

I'd also like to start our work in progress agenda. I'm thinking:

Pre-Meeting - Perhaps a small primer for those brand new to virtualization. I had this requested by a few people last time and may be worthwhile to those new to the concept of virtualization.

Introductions - Who am I, who the sponsors are and a tease for the upcoming topics.

VDI 2 - Anyone participating in the VDI2 Beta? Give the user group your feedback!

Technical Topic #1 - You decide. Speakers welcome!

Sponsor demonstration. Prepare for ooh's and ahh's.

Technical Topic #2 - You decide. Speakers welcome!

Q&A.

Wrap-Up.

I'm open to suggestions for technical content, either very advanced or more intermediate discussions. I'm also thinking about putting up a performance matrix to compare and contrast environments and perhaps find ways to make performance tweaks.

Dedicate physical network card to Virtual Machine?

VanAlex — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:30:08 GMT

Hi,

I need to dedicate a physical network card on the ESX 3 server to one of the virtual machines on it, how can I achieve this?

Rename VM (not just display name, actual datastore name)

VanAlex — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:30:31 GMT

Hi,

I was moving a VM from one ESX 3 server to another and I realized they were using the same name when they were set up, so even tough their host's name was change, as well as the name they display on the Virtual Infrastructure client, they still have the same name on the respective stores.

I tried renaming every file manually, as well as any reference for the old name inside all the log files, but when I boot them up with the new name, it fails and it's clear from the logs that it was looking for files with the old names.

How can I completely change a VM name?

Thanks

BWVMUG

dberk — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:26:21 GMT

Group Status? Is there a current owner for this group?

VMware Consulting Opportunities

itsol01 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:57:04 GMT

Our organization is looking for an experienced VMware Consultant Engineer concerning VMware opportunities in the Washington, DC Metro Area. The consultant needs experience in the design and implementation of VI3.

Error when moving manually a VM guest from one ESX 3 server to another

VanAlex — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:14:51 GMT

Hi, I have 2 ESX3 servers without VMotion or Virtual Center, and I need to move a VM Guest from ESX1 to ESX2, I followed the instructions on this page:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=10102&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=28912109&stateId=0%200%2028908514

included the instruction to enable root ssh login, but when I try to apply the command to move the VM Guest I receive the following error:

~~root@esx1 root~~# scp -r /vmfs/volumes/RAID5/vmguest/ root@esx2:/vmfs/RAID5/
ssh: connect to host esx2 port 22: Connection refused
lost connection
~~root@esx1 root~~#

I imagine it could be a simple error of opening some port at ESX2, but I'm a complete newbie at VMware ESX and Linux.

October 2007 DC Metro Area VMUG Recap

langonej — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:52:25 GMT

Original post here: http://www.systemsarchitech.com/en/article/75/october-2007-dc-vmug-recap

First off, many thanks to Kevin George a and the rest of the team from EqualLogic for stepping up to host the wonderful event. We had ~35 people turn out for the inaugural Washington, D.C. Metro Area VMWare User Group (DC VMUG in layman's terms).

On top of great shrimp and great service from the friendly staff at Sobe Seafood in Clarendon, we discussed:

The initiation of the DC Metro VMUG. It's been too long for such a predominant area to not have a VMUG.
A LIVE demonstration by the EqualLogic team showcasing their iSCSI solution, in use with some of VMWare VI3's more advanced features. As a brief tangent, some of their unofficial iSCSI performance metrics beat my very official fiber channel metrics at my current customer site. Well done!
Virtual Appliances and how their use is spreading (especially in primarily Linux-based environments).
UNNOC. A free open-source monitoring solution ready for your customization.
New from VMWorld 2007, with VMWare's own Matt Hart chiming in to give a very nice description of Site Recovery Manager, an eagerly awaited feature coming out sometime in '08.

Most importantly, we discussed what we want out of the user group and some of the feedback I received was:

An, "Introduction to Virtualization" segment, either before the main VMUG meeting or during.
More technical content. Even more solutions, more "what I'm doing with VMWare" conversation.

I also had a few offers from VMUG members to speak at the next outing on topics ranging from security to consolidation. Please contact me!

Be sure to vote in the poll on when we should meet next, either December or January.

Here's the presentation from last week's meeting (also attaching to this post):
DCVMUG_October2007.pdf

Finally, for those wishing to link contact information with fellow VMUG attendees, I'm suggesting we use LinkedIn. I've already sent a few invites out to those that I personally chatted with and traded email addresses. Here's my profile, feel free to link to me.

Jason Langone

DC Metro VMUG Website & Oct 17th, 2007 Meeting @ Sobe Seafood in Clarendon

langonej — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:01:19 GMT

So in an attempt to get the DC Metro VMUG moving, I've created a new section of my website to help coordinate the meetings.

http://www.systemsarchitech.com/dc_vmug

I've also created a post on the upcoming October VMUG meeting which I'd like to make happen. If interested, please RSVP either through the website, through this forum or to me via email. I already have one confirmed attendee besides myself.

Message was edited by: RDellimmagine
Changed location as requested.

Maryland VMUG Opening

dberk — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:56:00 GMT

The Maryland VMUG has just opened; we are coordinating for the first meeting and will have a date posted soon.

The Washington D.C. and Maryland VMUGS will be coordinating schedules to give everyone opportunities to vendors and information.

If you are interested in joining us at the upcoming MVMUG RSVP through the forum or email.

Informal Meet & Greet

langonej — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:33:52 GMT

Would anyone here be interested in meeting up to discuss topics such as:
current projects
interesting solutions
recruitement needs
brainstorming
et al

at some point during or after VMWorld 2007? For those that couldn't attend VMWorld 2007 I would be willing to recap my experience and others could chime in.

If interested, please reply to this thread.

- Jason

Group Meeting Time/Place?

kroof@LeftHand — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:50:07 GMT

Can anyone tell me when and where the next user group meeting will be? We would like to attend - possibly sponser - possibly present. Thanks,

Kevin

Looking for VMWare professionals in Northern Virginia

JMcClure — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:50:04 GMT

The company that I work for is looking for VMWare professionals in the Northern Virginia area that have a Top Secret clearance. Locating VMWare professaionals has been very difficult for us - beyond this forum and the obvious places (Monster, etc.) does anyone have suggestions on where to find them? Most people don't even list VMWare on their resumes - even if they have the experience.

Registration for COVUG Tech Days is now open! Details below.

JerryCollins — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:21:47 GMT

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is hosting their second regional event. We have roughly 40 vendors coming from all over talking about all kinds of topics. There will also be even more technical breakout sessions throughout the day.

The list of topics that will be engaged in over the two day event is long but you can see most of the list here at the general information site.

http://65.189.158.30

Not only is this event going to have a 10 thousand square ft vendor floor with all kinds of hands on stuff and demos, but there will be presentations going on all day and breakout sessions.

View the list of topics and see what all is going on.

Sign up quick to ensure you can attend and get the handout bag full of goodies from the vendors.

The vendors are silly with big give-aways. I cant even mention them here.

P.S. This is being held at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, OH and rooms are very cheap. Its about 1 hour and 55 minutes from Columbus Ohio. Bring the family as there are plenty of things to do.

Go here to register: http://info.vmware.com/content/UGReg-MultiSession?session=UserGroup-CentralOhio

Central Ohio VMware Users Group needs volunteers for break-out session lea

JerryCollins — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:58:06 GMT

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is looking for volunteers to lead breakout sessions of up to 20 people at our upcoming July event at www.KalahariResorts.com July 19th and 20th.

This opportunity is open to anyone. You can pick a topic of your choice and you dont have to be an expert. You only need to be willing to keep the conversation going.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact me ASAP!

Thanks,

Jerry Collins
Central Ohio VMware Users Group
Jerry.Collins@covug.org

COVUG Summer Tech Days

JerryCollins — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:01:01 GMT

The Central Oho VMware Users Group has its summer version of the highly successful Tech Days event coming up. This event will be July 19th and 20th at the extremely popular KalahariResorts.com location next to the even more popular Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.

Not only are there currently 40 vendors lined up to present and talk about all different kinds of technologies surrounding virtualization but they are also ready to fill the huge vendor floor with all kinds of booths and information.

You may think it amazing that there will be a Luau the evening of the 19th open to all attendees, a game room filled with large screen TVs with game consoles, and that overnight rooms will be available for a large portion of the attendees who are first to register for only $100 (give or take $10). However you will be astonished to find out that the event itself is free.

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is working diligently to bring all this together. We expect registration to be opened some time in the middle of June and the invites will come from VMware.

We are looking for some people to help lead informal discussions on different technical topics. It is our objective to have a good range of technical information available and these discussion forums will be a part of that.

For Questions, Comments, suggestions or other please contact:

Jerry.Collins@covug.org
Or
Whitney.Tapp@covug.org

Stay tuned for more info as the event comes together.

User group status

ekuzmack — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:09:42 GMT

All, I wanted to give an update on where we are. The Co-chair who worked with me to start this VMUG has moved on to another position. I have been buried under a project that likely won't let up for several months.

We are looking for someone who would be willing to take on the leadership role for this group. Several folks have offered space to hold meetings, and my facility is still available. But unfortunatly, I just don't have the time to committ to this right now.

I think this is a very useful forum, and I hope that we're able to keep things moving along.

Thanks!

Eric

sponsor user group

vsanchez — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:47:22 GMT

I woul dlike to inquire about hosting a user group meeting. Who do I need to contact?

Configuring USB Ports

jasjolly — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:30:21 GMT

I have installed GSX server v 3.2. I am having problems adding USB controllers on the Virtual machine I created. Is this because I have added virtual drives as SCSI devices on the virtual machine?

Any help will be highly appreciated

What is the status of this group?

MadMike36 — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:52:31 GMT

Please advise via post the status of the VMUG.

Thank You
Michael

When is the next meeting ??

zahn — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:28:45 GMT

I was wondering when the next meeting take place ??

Is this still an active user group?

cvalentino@witsusa.com — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:56:28 GMT

Is this still an active user group?

tmpDirectory variable doesn't seem to work in VMware 5

csford — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:12:56 GMT

I have limited space in /tmp, so in VMware version 4 I was able to set the tmpDirectory variable in /etc/vmware/config to point to /opt/vmware for the storage of it's files. I have tried the same step in VMware 5 and it does not store the files in the temp directory identified in /etc/vmware/config. Does anyone know what can be done so that the files are not being stored in /tmp for VMware 5? Thanks, Cheronda

HP DL585 Dual Cores

xylog — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:06:41 GMT

Message Deleted

June 29th Meeting

ToddM — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:34:35 GMT

Thanks for all that worked to organize yesterday's meeting. I enjoyed meeting everyone.

I do have a couple of questions... Is there a way to make the presentations availabile for those who miss the meeting or those who want to review what was covered.

Pizza was good too, thanks to the sponsor... whom ever it was.

Todd M

PAE-enable problem

betatest — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:58:47 GMT

I'm using VMware Workstation 3, and when I tried to turn on a virtual machine this message showed up: "The host operating system is using the Physical Address Extension (PAE) processor option. VMware Workstation currently cannot run on a PAE-enabled host. Please disable PAE in the host operating system and restart VMware Workstation."

I posted a message earlier and get a reply to open the virtual machine's .vmx file and add "paevm="true"." I did just that, but still not able to turn on any virtual machine on my AMD Athlon 64 processor computer.

Is there any other way to get it working smoothly? Please help....

thanks.

video error

epiphonic — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:41:05 GMT

*** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***
NOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/intr/pic.c:711

any1 know how 2 fix this....?

VMUG Meeting Status

SoL — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:08:30 GMT

Hi,
I've had a few calls asking about whether the weather might interfere with the DC-Baltimore VMUG meeting tomorrow. Any announcements will be posted here as soon as available.
The current predictions have the major snow in the DC area ending by 5-6pm this evening. The roads should be fine for an 11:30am start tomorrow, so the meeting will take place as scheduled.
Thanks and see you there,
_John Harpell

vmware hangs for 60seconds regularly

pdoranwu — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:44:39 GMT

Hi,

I am running windows xp 2002 service pack 2 on my pc.
I am running vmware workstation 4.5.2.
I am emulating windows 2000.

I have been successfully using this setup for over a year. However, I now have the windows 2000 hang for 60seconds regularly. It does recover, but it is really annoying.

I during these 60seconds or so, I cannot click on any vmware menus. In fact if I click outside the vmware window, the mouse is dragged back to the vmware window. The only recourse I have is to wait out the 60seconds or to use ctrl-alt-del to select another xp application.

Does anyone know what is going on?

Thanks in advance.
Patrick

Disonnection from San causing unstable networking. crash of vm

malcolmpearce — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:00:18 GMT

Jan 15 15:27:34 brennan-esx2 vmkernel: 0:01:39:34.097 cpu3:141) WARNING: SCSI: 4226: vmhba1:0:1:1 status = 0/2 0x0 0x0 0x0

Above is an exaplme of the warning from the system log. I continually get disconnections for some reason and no one has ideas as to why. This error causes a time out on the virtual machine and in some instances the esx servers also crash.
Does any one have any similar cases and if so do you have any suggestions on how to resolve this issue.

The only alternative I have is to revert back to physical machines and not Use VM Ware.

System

Two ESX server one with 4 machines the other running two, whihc are SQL and Exchange Enterprise. It would appear these issues have been arising sine the migration of Exchange Enterprise to the SAN.

Hopefully

Malcol m

ITANIUM Support

scolombo — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:38:13 GMT

Hi ,
does anyone know if ESX supports any itanium2 -based server ?

thanks

sysprep Regional Settings

DoratheExplorer — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:41:27 GMT

Hi,
Having problems amending the default locale to United Kingdom from United States after building a server from a template.
When I originally build the server (W2Kserversp3) the default locale is UK with no settings for US.
Once I have created a template and then build another server from this template, it adds the US keyboard etc and sets this as default for all new users.
Amended the sysprep.xml file as follows;
<RegionalSettings>
<Language>00000809</Language>
<LanguageGroup>1</LanguageGroup>
<SystemLocale>00000809</SystemLocale>
<InputLocale>0809:00000809</InputLocale>
<InputLocale_DefaultUser>0809:00000809></InputLocale_DefaultUser>
<UserLocale>00000809</UserLocale>
<UserLocale_DefaultUser>00000809</UserLocale_DefaultUser>
</RegionalSettings>

This does not seem to make any difference.
Also added a Language setting to the XML file to override some of the settings, but still no joy.

Anyone else had this problem and managed to resolve.

ESX 2.1, VC 1.0.1

Next meeting...in December?

SoL — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:16:29 GMT

When we had the initial meeting there was discussion of another meeting potentially in December, is there any news of another meeting?

VMUG membership roster and collaboration

leecason — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:34:14 GMT

Eric and Josh,

Great kick-off meeting and thanks for lunch!

Would it make sense to have a place where VMUG members can voluntarily "register" their contact info for collaborating on VMware related topics? Until a better place exists, maybe it could be something like this topic?

[CONTACT INFO]
Lee Cason
IT Specialist
US Patent & Trademark Office
Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division (AISD)
Crystal Park 2 10th Floor Room F1001
2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202
Voice: (703) 305-4248 / Mobile (703) 304-6035
lee.cason@uspto.gov

[VMware Involvement]
* Subject to various approvals, hope to be able to host future VMUG meetings.

[VMUG participation interests]
VMware Community Forum member: obviously
Interested in working on VMUG newsletter: <yes> <no> <maybe>
Interested in receiving VMUG newsletter: <yes> <no> <maybe>
Interested in attending meetings: <yes> <no> <maybe>
Interested in collaborating with other VMUG members: <yes> <no> <maybe>
Interested in helping with VMUG activities: <yes> <no> <maybe>
Interested in hosting or supporting a more robust collaboration platform for VMUG (Zope/Plone, etc.) <yes> <no> <maybe>

-- Lee

Welcome!

jhelle2 — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:43:26 GMT

Hi All -

I'm one of the leaders of the newly created Baltimore/Washington Area VMWare user group. We'll be posting details about the first meeting in the next few days, but until then, please feel free to post any suggestions you might have for the group. We'll be checking in every few days to look at any new posts.

Josh Heller
Black & Decker, US Inc.

VMware Communities : Thread List - Washington DC Area VMware User Group

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Consultants Washington DC

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Systems Administrator with heavy VMWare experience needed in Reston...

October VMUG Meeting Full already!?

Data Storage Day at the Usenix LISA Conference - Nov 4th - Baltimore

August 13th Presentation and Topics for Next DC VMUG

Cisco Systems - Full time job - Sr. Data Center Virtualization Engineer - Top Secret Clearance required

Looking for TS cleared VMWare engineer

DC VMUG - October

Is it possible to do a Linux P2V to a VMware Workstation virtual machine?

Vizioncore vs. Veeam - thoughts? Am I missing any?

August 13th VMUG

Virtuallization Infrastructure

July DC VMUG

Looking for VMware Engineers

AttentionVirtualization Engineers:

If You’re Seriously Talented, We’re Seriously Interested.

April 24, 2009 VMUG Presentation - IGI

Upcoming VMUG - DC

Looking for VMware VCP to join VMware Partner

DC VMUG's

Upcoming VMUG meeting

Seeking a Citrix Administrator for a Permanant F/T Position in DC

Pay scale in Washington DC area

How do I output VirtualCenter folder Permissions using Powershell?

DC Area - VMware User group

Standalone ESX servers to run a single Windows VM

Virtualization Forum 2008 - Washington DC

VMUG - August 28th

VMworld...who's going? DC VMUG meeting in Vegas?

Does anyone have a VI3 Design, Secure, Analyze (DSA) Book & Lab Manual?

July Meeting?

Will administer your VI3 env for food :)

Virtualization Management Solutions

Recap: April 23rd DC Metro VMUG Meeting

Agenda for April 23rd DC Metro VMUG Meeting

Who's interested in having a meeting soon?

Dual Nic

AX150i vs S550

No supported network devices found on ABIT AMD X2 motherboard

The DC Metro VMUG is now an official LinkedIn Group

Next Meeting?

Reminder: January 23rd DC VMUG Meeting at Old Ebbitt Grill in NW Washington, DC

January '08 DC Metro VMUG Meeting

VM has not network connectivity

Virtual Appliances - Telelogic System Architect or Troux Architect

DC Metro Area VMUG - January Agenda Discussion & Request for Speakers

Dedicate physical network card to Virtual Machine?

Rename VM (not just display name, actual datastore name)

BWVMUG

VMware Consulting Opportunities

Error when moving manually a VM guest from one ESX 3 server to another

October 2007 DC Metro Area VMUG Recap

DC Metro VMUG Website & Oct 17th, 2007 Meeting @ Sobe Seafood in Clarendon

Maryland VMUG Opening

Informal Meet & Greet

Group Meeting Time/Place?

Looking for VMWare professionals in Northern Virginia

Registration for COVUG Tech Days is now open! Details below.

Central Ohio VMware Users Group needs volunteers for break-out session lea

COVUG Summer Tech Days

User group status

sponsor user group

Configuring USB Ports

What is the status of this group?

When is the next meeting ??

Is this still an active user group?

tmpDirectory variable doesn't seem to work in VMware 5

HP DL585 Dual Cores

June 29th Meeting

PAE-enable problem

video error

VMUG Meeting Status

vmware hangs for 60seconds regularly

Disonnection from San causing unstable networking. crash of vm

ITANIUM Support

sysprep Regional Settings

Next meeting...in December?

Central Ohio VMware Users Group needs volunteers for break-out session lea