The final (?) note on the ESXi / HP saga (part 1 / part 2). This is too much of a downer to continue documenting! I’ll start with a quick tip: If moving data to NFS shares seems slow or gives you frequent timeouts look to your network gear. I … Continue reading
The folks at Ipswitch released their WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit this week. I was in the beta for the past month and find it a pretty handy ‘kit. What I hadn’t realized was that they’d be giving it away for free when launched. Nice! So hey, if you do any … Continue reading
I updated VMware Player to the latest version (3.0) on my home machine last night[1]. Wanted to check out the latest version and get a first hand look at the new features. I pointed it to my trusty Xubuntu “security” virtual machine and booted up. I ran into a snag … Continue reading
Tip: vmnetcfg is a really handy tool to tweak VMware network configs. Just don’t forget to run it as admin if on Vista or Win 7 (I always do…).
As many long-time readers are aware, I’m a big fan of virtualization. I like to do testing and dev work in virtual machines as that helps keep my primary machine(s) cleaner and leaner. It also lets me keep a whole fleet of machines around without needing all that extra hardware … Continue reading
