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June 2010 - Posts

• All things virtual 13

  Yes I decided to get rid of the roman numerals and go with the old trusty numbers from now on as I think it looks better and it’s more user friendly for the five people who read these posts :) It’s been two weeks since the last All things virtual Read More... Posted 30 June 2010 15:07 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware

• vBeers – August 5th 2010

  Yep the third vBeers is just around the corner and I’ll be making a concerted effort myself to make this one. If you’ve never heard of vBeers before here is the “official” definition of vBeers: vBeers is an informal get together of virtualisation Read More... Posted 29 June 2010 16:24 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, Nerds unite

• Expanded disk with existing snapshot corrupted

  Having seen a recent VMware communities posting with someone having the same problem I had I thought I'd write this up. Almost a month back now while doing some routine maintenance on some of our then ESX3.x virtual machines we decided to expand the primary Read More... Posted 22 June 2010 10:08 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, VMware communities

• Understanding and using ESXTOP/RESXTOP

  Lately I’ve noticed more and more people referring to stats and figures they have collected on their environments via ESXTOP/RESXTOP. I learnt about esxtop for my vcp exams but I have to be honest I haven’t really used it in my environment and recently Read More... Posted 18 June 2010 13:47 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional Datacentre Administration –Blueprint Released

  Just a very fast posting to notify that the blueprint for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Datacentre Administration blueprint has been released. As I've said I'm really looking forward to this exam as hopefully it will enable me to differentiate Read More... Posted 13 June 2010 20:36 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, VCAP, VCAP-DCA

• All things virtual XII

  The whole community has been buzzing with the news of the vExpert’s for 2010. As I said in the last all things virtual I didn’t think I was going to become one and I wasn’t surprised when I didn’t become one. I wrote a blog posting about the reasons Read More... Posted 11 June 2010 14:23 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware

• vCentre 4 and vSphere Update 2 Released

  As of last night VMware have  released VMware vCentre 4.0 Update 2 & VMware vSphere Update 2 All the patches that were released and their build numbers are: vCentre Server 4.0 Update 2 (Build 258672) vSphere Client 4.0 Update 2 (Build Read More... Posted 11 June 2010 08:19 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments

• All things virtual XI

  I’m fairly pleased that these summaries of the things that have caught my interest in virtualisation have been getting so much traffic and even more pleased is that even though I didn’t post anything massive in particular I got my highest number of viewers Read More... Posted 04 June 2010 11:18 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, DRS stars, vExpert, DRS, cpu reservation, resource pools, power off an unresponsive VMware ESX virtual machine, Slot sizes, memory reservation, HA, vSphere 4 host best practices, Cluster