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Source: communities.vmware.com --- 25 days ago
Hi, I've got several identical hosts (same Hardware, same BIOS (since all of this is scripted)) and same HP Proliant Management Agents 8.10 Now the strange part, every hosts is displaying other items in the "Health Status"; Some host only display CPU and Memory while other hosts report much more items. The servers are all running for a couple of days now but no more information is diplayed. I guess this "Health Status"-view is still under some heavy development and is currently running version 1.0.0.0.0 ? Cheers, Kenneth ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 32 days ago
Every time I launch VMware Fusion version 2.0rc1 I get the annoying "New Hardware Found" and see a few quick popups in the lower right corner of the VM screen "VMW device..." This was not happening every time I launched Fusion 1.xx. XP Pro SP2 Mac Pro 10.5.4 Any ideas how to stop this? (Oh, the Windows experience!) ... Source: e-hardware.es --- 16 days ago
Aquí os traemos hoy un enlace a un artículo de Rosalie Marshall en vnunet.com , sobre VMware , la reducción del tiempo de inactividad y la toleracia a fallos: VMware reduces Hardware downtime Fault Tolerance application impresses VMworld customers Virtualisation leader VMware has announced a new virtual application service that provides significantly reduced downtime and data loss when [...] ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 31 days ago
Red Hat claims it can run five virtual machines (VMs) for every three that VMware's ESX runs in the same server Hardware. Qumranet technology also enables it to run more Windows virtual desktops than VMware, too. ... Source: feeds.feedburner.com --- 8 days ago
There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple (AAPL) Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier. The first approach uses a feature called Boot Camp that comes free on every new Mac. Using Boot Camp, the entire Mac is turned into a Windows PC, with the full capabilities and speed of a standard Windows machine. No trace of the Mac operating system is left running. The downside is that you can’t run Windows and Mac programs side by side. The second approach uses one of two third-party programs to create a virtual Windows PC inside your Mac. This faux Windows machine runs at normal speeds and can operate simultaneously with the Mac’s own operating system. Programs native to each operating system can run side by side. The downside is that, because Windows doesn’t get complete control of the computer’s Hardware, it isn’t quite as fast as in Boot Camp, and a few of its functions, like 3D graphics, don’t work as well. This latter method is enabled by two excellent, closely matched $80 programs: Parallels, from a Swiss-based company of the same name, and Fusion, from VMware (VMW), a U.S. company. It is Fusion that just got better, because VMware just issued version 2.0 of the product with lots of new features, some of which let it catch up to the older Parallels and some of which push it ahead. I’ve been testing Fusion 2.0 for a couple of weeks on two different Macs, and using it ...
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Pensacola, FL 32507 850-454-7977 flexbaud@Yahoo.com Michael Imlay Objective A position in the industry using my electronics and customer service knowledge. Skills Profile Computer Software Windows Vista, XP, 2003 Server, 2000 Pro & Server, ME, 98SE, 95. Microsoft Office Professional 2007, 2003, XP, 2000. VMware Server/Client, Partition Magic, Norton Ghost, McAfee Anti-Virus, Mac OS X 10, Panorama, VNC, Solaris, Ubuntu, Active Directory, PrairieFyre. SolarWinds, AMS, NMS, Minerva, C9, Computer Hardware Pentium, Core Duo, AMD Processors. ISA, PCI, PCI-Express, AGP Interfaces, SCSI, IDE, SATA Devices. SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, RDRAM. ECC and Non-ECC Ram Types. Dual Processor Workstations/Servers. Sharepoint Data 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Networks, 802.11 A, B, G, N Wireless Networks. Domain Controlled Networks via NT Server. IPSec, DHCP Servers/Clients. VPN Servers/Clients, QoS Load Balancing Switches/Routers. GPRS/EDGE Data. Bluetooth. IPTV, Tellabs ONT Voice POTS/VOIP, Sphericall, SIP Gateways/Phones, Mitel 3300 ICP. BlackBerry /Aircard Devices. NetCentrix, AudioCodecs, Linksys, CopperCom, PolyCom. Experience January 2007 August 2008 Connexion Technologies, Inc Gulf Shores, AL Information Technology Support/Network Operations Center Support Assisting Customers with troubleshooting/configuring ONT Equipment (Fiber Optic Adapters) Assisting Customers with troubleshooting/configuring VoIP Adapters Assisting Customers with configuring L ... Source: gigaom.com --- 29 days ago
There’s buzz around Silicon Valley that there will be a big announcement made at VMworld next week in Las Vegas. I think Cisco Systems will announce support of VMware virtual machines on their networking Hardware. And if I'm right, it will have numerous ramifications, not only for the two companies, but the networking industry overall. ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 10 days ago
Have just updated to VMware Server 2.00 GA from rc2 and for the first time have compared guest performance using two different host O/S on the same Hardware. The box has a quad core X5355 cpu @ 2.66GHz with 16GB RAM. The guest config is Win2003 x86 (single cpu). The two host configs are Win2003 32bit and OpenSuse Linux 11.0 64bit with latest patches etc. Memory trimming switched off. We used a benchmark tool in the guest called Sandra Lite2009. Disk performance was comparable. (The virtual disks were kept on an NTFS partition used by both host O/S). Memory-intensive performance was poor with the Linux host...most of benchmarks put it at about half the performance of the Windows host benchmarks. The difficulty at this point is determining whether VMware is to blame or if it's something that is not optimal in the Linux host config itself. I'd like to be able to somehow compare performance of the two hosts, but across different O/S I'm not sure how you would do this. Also I do remember seeing a thread in the Beta forum (which I can't find now) that criticised the VMware behavior on Linux compared to Wiindows in respect of memory management...something to do with the disk-backed nature of the guest's memory footprint? Appreciate any advice...this seems like too bigger performance penalty for taking the jump to 64 bit land. (I was more attracted to migrating onto a lean 64bit Linux kernel than going to Windows 2003 64bit.) ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 10 hours ago
We're widening our ESXi 3.5.1 test deployment to a second server, and we've encountered an unusual problem. ESXi doesn't appear to be receiving ARP packets. Periodically the switch just "loses" IPs from its NIC and we've confirmed that it's due to ARP caches expiring. Inside a VM, we can packet dump without ever seeing any ARP traffic. Sometimes doing a "Restart Networking" from the console helps for awhile, and as long as traffic continually passes to an IP, obviously its arp cache does not expire. The first machine we loaded ESXi does not have this problem, running all the same tests, we get exactly the results one would expect. We have already exhaustively tested the Hardware and switch port. Both are working fine. Switch port monitoring shows that the ARP requests are outbound to the VMware box, but they never make it. This is not related to the guest networking stack, this happens with the ESXi management NIC as well / even right after startup when no guests are running. ("Test Management Network" has to be done to render it accessible to the VI client.) So it's somewhere in the ESXi physical LAN driver or the vSwitch. Both the working ESXi server and the new test server are Supermicro servers that are either on the HCL or from the same "series" as machines on the HCL (same electronics, different disk configuration or form factor). The machines are identical in terms of CPUs, RAM, disks, etc. The only material difference between ... Source: blogs.vmware.com --- 8 days ago
Mike DiPetrillo is on a roll. (Our podcast with Mike will be up tomorrow; it was delayed because the podcast provider was not posting audio for 24 hours; coincidentally, this blog provider just went out for 45 minutes. There's a cloud and availability post there somewhere.) Link: From the VMware Field: Mike D's Virtualization Blog: Virtual Server Sprawl. He gives 4 reasons for server sprawl, from underestimating how many servers you have to begin with (did you count Jim's two test servers in the old closet?) to now being able to set up some redundancy.I've seen this topic come up over and over again on panels, in the press, on blogs, and in customer conversations. What's virtual server sprawl? It's the theory (or fact) that because virtual machines are so easy to create that once you virtualize your servers will start to multiply like rabbits. I'm here to tell you there's a lot of fact behind that statement. After doing virtualization for 6 1/2 years here at VMware I don't think I've seen one customer reduce their server count ever. Sure, they've gotten rid of a lot of physical Hardware. I guess you could call those servers. However, I've never seen the actual server count (OS/App stack) go down. Usually it starts to ramp up rather quickly.Link: From the VMware Field: Mike D's Virtualization Blog: Building a $500 VMware ESXi Host. See also Dave Mishchenko's excellent www.vm-help.com and the ESXi forum and the Community Hardware Softwa ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 5 hours ago
Hi! I have gotten conflicting answers from VMware education materials ("A VM can only run on a single host at a time." - VI3: Install and Config, pg 217) and VMware sales reps ("Sure, that should work fine.") for the following scenario (my hope is that someone out there has tried this configuration and can let me know if it will work before I commit to buying 2 ESX VC licenses). Situation: Have a high end server that currently maxes out the resources available on the box. Have another identical server available as a spare. Goal: Combine Hardware resources of both servers and make them all available as a single machine. Possibility that needs a thumbs up or down: Would like to install ESX3 and VC on both hosts and cluster all the resources of both hosts together into a resource pool. Then create a single VM that would use all the resources in the pool. In case one of the hosts in the cluster failed, the VM would need to keep running on just the resources on the single host (half of what is in the pool). I know this is somewhat backwards to what VMware is usually used for. However, does anyone know if such a configuration would work, and if it would be supported by VMware? Or any other suggestions on how to achieve the Goal listed above? Thank you in advance for your kind help!!! Mak Rule of thumb - do not listen to sales people - what you read in the documentation is correct a VM can only run on a single host at a time - this is true ... Source: www.neowin.net --- 10 days ago
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 during the TechNet Server and Tools keynote address in London. Hyper-V Server 2008 is now available from the Microsoft website as a no-cost download. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a bare metal hypervisor, meaning that it runs directly on top of physical Hardware allowing virtual machines operating systems to run on top of it, similar to VMware's ESX platform or Citrix XenServer. Previous Microsoft virtualization platforms requires a separate Windows session running as a host, with virtual machines running on top of that. Companies that deploy a Hyper-V virtualization solution for can consolidate Windows or Linux workloads onto a single physical server or to run client operating systems and applications in server-based virtual machines in the data center. Management is done through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, which is currently available as beta software, although Microsoft expects final version will be released by the end of the month. Minimum Hardware requirements for Hyper-V Server include an x64 processor with Hardware-assisted virtualization (either Intel VT or AMD Virtualization) that is also Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled. It also requires a second computer, typically in an Active Directory environment running the Hyper-V manager. Both Dell and HP will be delivering servers based on this new hypervi ... Source: www.informationweek.com --- 10 days ago
Lefthand Networks was one of the first vendors in the iSCSI market and has always had the best of the iSCSI solutions that runs on standard x86 server Hardware. Theyve transitioned over the past couple of years from selling whitebox servers with their SAN/iQ software bundled in to primarily selling SAN/iQ as software upping the ante this February by releasing SAN/iQ as a VMware virtual appliance. ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 9 days ago
I have created a GUEST with: VMware Server Version = 2.0 HOST : Dell Poweredge 1800 (linux Red Hat 4) GUEST: SUSE Linux 10 PURPOSE: Oracle RAC Test 1. PROCESSOR = 1 2. Memory = 1.5 GB 3. Hard Disks = 9 (one internal, 8 shared) 4. Network Adapters = 4 (NIC Bonding 2+2) 5. DVD Drive 6 SCSI Controllers = 0 and 1 I am getting Error on Power on :: "Unable to allocate PCI Etnernet Controller. Too many PCI devices already configured. Module DevicePowerOn power on failed". If I remove one Ethernet Controller it powers on without any problem. Is the any Virtual Hardware Limits defined on VMware Server 2.0 and where can I find these? Thanks. ==================================================================== ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 7 days ago
Hardware - IBM LS20 blade server (LS20 is on the approved Hardware list) IBM H chassis Firmware - up-to-date Software - VMware ESX 3.5.2 patched through September patches Problem - keyboard doesn't work through Advanced Management Module or through direct attachment to chassis once VMware ESX 3.5.2 loads - cannot do Alt-F1 to bring up login screen. Keyboard works during BIOS boot - can access F1, F2, F12 and the utilities for the RAID controller and HBA. Can access and edit GRUB boot loader. Keyboard starts flashing lights above number keypad once boot hits VMware loading interrupts - (occassionally hangs at this point). Can boot to KNOPPIX 5.11 and use keyboard - KNOPPIX 5.08 doesn't boot and keyboad doesn't work. I could access console via AMM while configuring SSH. After configurng STIG compliance, can't use Console. What setting in the STIG could cause this problem and how do I fix? Note: IBM tech support on site today about this issue and couldn't find any Hardware problems. Thanks. Mike ... Source: communities.vmware.com --- 21 hours ago
Hi, We've recently performed a P2V migration using VMware converter and we're having a major problem. After the VM in question being fine for hours (sometimes days), some processes that connect to other processes inside the VM via TCP sockets suddenly become unable to initiate any further connections, resulting in us needing to restart the processes in question. This has been observed on both VMware Server 1.0.6 and ESXi. This problem never occurred on physical Hardware, so the problem is clearly some sort of virtualisation oddity, as evidenced by various posts in these forums. No concrete answers have been presented in any posts I've read, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated. The VM is a Windows 2000 Server instance. ... Source: planet.ubuntu.com --- 4 days ago
September has been a busy month in terms of milestones: alpha5 and alpha6 were pushed out of the door. And a BetaFreeze went in effect during the last week of the month. Here is a selection of what happened in the archive during the month of September. clamav protected by apparmor The clamav anti-virus package saw the addition of an apparmor profile to increase the protection of the virus scanning daemon. freeradius 2.1 A new upstream release of freeradius made its way to the intrepid archive. Support for ipv6, virtual servers and an improved administration tool are some of the new features. The server core has also been rewritten to be event based. This resulted in fixing lots of bugs that were difficult to address in the 1.1.X version. Virtualization A helper script that checks if the Hardware supports virtualization extensions has been added to the kvm package. Support for hal and policykit has also been integrated thus improving the kvm experience in a desktop environment. Both kvm and qemu have been fixed to use evdev for keycode mapping based on the code from gtk-vnc. That lead to the resolution of a particular bug causing grief to kvm users , namely the unfortunate loss of ability to use arrow keys, function keys, and any other sort of extended keys. vm-builder has seen an big update to its documentation as well as support for creating VMware and xen images. AD integration with likewise-open Likewise-open has been integrated wi ... Source: news.soft32.com --- 34 days ago
Fujitsu Asia and VMware announced a local OEM distribution agreement to offer end-to-end server virtualization solutions – comprising consultation, Hardware, software, systems integration and maintenance – across the ASEAN region. This builds on the companies’ existing relationship to now offer VMware virtualization in the ASEAN markets, which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. ... Source: www.networkworld.com --- 37 days ago
VMware, whose virtualization software helps IT departments maximize use of their server Hardware, said Wednesday that its product will run reliably with software from Microsoft. ... Find more results for VMware Hardware on RSSMicro.com |
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In my last I/O Virtualization blog , earlier this year, I discussed a fundamental problem with virtualizing I/O and one the solution that Intel and VMware have teamed up to deliver - VMDq and VMware NetQueue. These queuing technologies together can help to offload some of the virtual switching (vswitch) functionality to the network adapter from the hypervisor. VMDq provides a method for the Hypervisor to do less work, and also provides a way to share the I/O processing across multiple cores; improving system bandwidth and more fully utilizing its processing power. Now, VMDq and NetQueue are a great solution together that scale well, support Vmotion, and are relatively simple to manage. However, is there a way to get even better performance from your Virtualized I/O? What if there was a way to completely cut the Hypervisor software switch out of the picture and remove the associated latency and CPU overhead? The ideal scenario for optimum performance is for the VM to communicate directly with LAN Hardware itself, and bypass the vswitch completely. For example, you could have a single 10 Gigabit port expose multiple LAN interfaces at the Hardware level (on the PCI-e bus), and each VM could be assigned directly to a Hardware interface. Alternatively, you have multiple physical NICs in the system that could be directly assigned to a given VM. Below is a diagram that summarizes the 3 main variations of attachment for I/O in a virtualized s ...