vSphere Storage Applicance is aimed at the SMB (Small and Mid-size Business) customers who may not be in a position to purchase a physical SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure, and as a result, these customers do not have shared storage.
Category: Virtualization
New Version of VMware Boomerang is Released
Boomerang is a neat and handy FREE tool that allows you to connect to virtual machines across mutliple ESXi hosts or vCenter servers in a single portal. http://labs.vmware.com/flings/boomerang
Force Mounting VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.0
We had an issue last week that in our vSphere cluster (6 ESXi 5.0 hosts, 3 datastores), two hosts can not see one of the datastores. The issue was caused by that a guy in my team did not follow the proper LUN operation procedure. I tried to add the storage back in the vSphere … Continue reading Force Mounting VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.0
How to Manually Remove a Damaged Hyper-V Virtual Machine
If you see such errors in the Hyper-V event log, and fail to delete the damaged virtual machine in the Hyper-V manager. Just go to ‘C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines’ and delete the file which filename is the same as the virtual machine ID. After that, the damage virtual machine should be gone in your Hyper-V manager. If … Continue reading How to Manually Remove a Damaged Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer for Windows 2008 R2
Hyper-V BPA for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available, and it can be downloaded here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 After installed, expand the ‘Server Manager/Roles/Hyper-V’ in the left pane of Server Manager console. Then choose ‘Scan This Role’ in the right pane.
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