ejward's Accepted Solutions

Are you running Virtual Center? if you are, you can click on the host, then click on the Configure tab. Under "Software" it's listed as "virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown". You have to manu... See more...
Are you running Virtual Center? if you are, you can click on the host, then click on the Configure tab. Under "Software" it's listed as "virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown". You have to manually set it for each VM. It's disabled by default. This is one of those steps I always forget when creating a VM. in version 2.5, it the auto restart used to be a check box during VM creation. i don't know why they dumped it. Also, you've got to re-check this setting every so often. if a VM is on host 1 and you set it to auto-start, if DRS moves it to host 2, auto-start is now off.
We're actually getting better performance on our iSCSI Equallogic SAN than our 2GB fiber EMC DMX. Not 10 or 15% better performance. I'm talking 200 to 300% better performance. EMC has beaten t... See more...
We're actually getting better performance on our iSCSI Equallogic SAN than our 2GB fiber EMC DMX. Not 10 or 15% better performance. I'm talking 200 to 300% better performance. EMC has beaten this to death and essentially said "Yeah, the DMX is slower". Our Clariion is also faster than the DMX. About the same performance as the Equallogic.
Are these disk in a Clariion? When we were looking for disk to do Vmware on, EMC said we should use fiber disk rather than SATA. We got SATA drives for our Clariion anyway. We figured EMC was... See more...
Are these disk in a Clariion? When we were looking for disk to do Vmware on, EMC said we should use fiber disk rather than SATA. We got SATA drives for our Clariion anyway. We figured EMC was trying to make a buck. The Clariion wasn't exclusivly for Vmware. There was other stuff on there too. We had a problem with data curruption. Nothing I saw on the Vmware side but, we had files shares on there with images that were just scrambled. EMC upgraded us to fiber drives free of charge. Has EMC ever given anything to anyone for free? There must have been something seriously wrong with the STATA drives for them to do that. They pulled everything back (Including controllers) to send to engineering. They never told us what they found. This was just last year.
Scrap everything you've been doing and get either .... it's free. Or This . it's licensed by CPU on the host so it's not too bad. it's cheaper than buying 40 copies of your backup agent. I... See more...
Scrap everything you've been doing and get either .... it's free. Or This . it's licensed by CPU on the host so it's not too bad. it's cheaper than buying 40 copies of your backup agent. I'm not sure how Ghost is licensed but, don't you need a copy for each VM? Anyway, both of these products will do a backup at the host level. Esxpress requires you to do stuff at the Linux level to get it installed. VRanger is all Windows. They will both dump the VM to a file without taking the VM down. The problem with Ghost and a backup client within the VM is that your going to potentially have 40 VMs doing a backup at the same time. This will ramp up the memory and CPU of the host that these VMs are on.
I know the beta works on a Dell 2950III. I'm burning this new release now. I'll let you know in a few minutes.
Yes, this is a "Feature" in VI3. You can't login as Root anymore. The fact that they don't give you the chance to create an alternate ID during the setup never entered into the minds of the e... See more...
Yes, this is a "Feature" in VI3. You can't login as Root anymore. The fact that they don't give you the chance to create an alternate ID during the setup never entered into the minds of the engineers that thought this would be a good idea kind of stinks too. There's a way around it. From the console, you've got to edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. A couple of pages down in that file there's a line that says "Allow root access = no" change that to yes. Save the file then restart the sshd service (service sshd restart).