I’m in a linky kind of mood tonight. Here are some articles I found interesting in the last week or so.
- vinf.net has a great set of articles here and here on how to run ESX 3.5 in the new Workstation 6.5 Beta. I can’t wait to get my hands on it and try it out!
- VM /ETC has a very good article on upgrading to ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5
- VMReference.com has updated their VMWare Reference Sheet. If you haven’t seen it, check it out.
- I use WinSCP a lot so I was happy to come across this tip over at RTFM on how to solve the filepart issues that started with ESX 3.5. Yes, this is old, I only now got around to actually doing something about it!
- Another RTFM Article with links to everything P2V. In this case I needed the XP SCSI drivers to create an XP VM. More on my adventures with VMWare VDM in a future article…
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In my day to day activities I depend a lot on the hardware vendor forums for the products I support. I wanted to take a second to share all the links I have acquired. Some will be obvious to everyone, but a few of them are pretty obscure. Enjoy!
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This one is a little late but I promised my buddy Simon over at vinf.net a link. If you have an interest in FC Virtual Connect, you owe it to yourself to check out his article. It is exceptionally well written and has an amazing amount of detail.
Link to the article
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I found this out while configuring some 10G Ethernet cards for a customer recently. Be careful who makes your 10G cards. It turns out the NetXen 10G card (OEMed to HP, IBM and Others) has a hard limitation of only being able to address 32GB of system memory in the box. If the system has more than 32GB of memory, the card will start dropping packets. My sources tell me there will not be a firmware fix for this at this time.
To say this was a surprise to me is an understatement! I have never seen a card with a limitation based on memory before. IBM has pulled support for the card on the 3850 M2 model even though it is still a valid configuration in the configuration tools. I haven’t had a chance to check the DL580 but be careful if you are considering either of these boxes with the 10G card. Right now you will have to go 3rd party and your level of support may vary.
Link to IBM Technical Tip
Link to HP Technical Tip
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One more thing I forgot. If you left a comment in the last few weeks and you don’t see it on the site, please contact me. I have been invaded by comment spam and I think everything is all fixed this morning. I should be caught up on both publishing and replying to comments.
On the plus side, if you would like to know the site of a very persistent ring tone supplier, I’d be happy to pass along a site (with no guarantees of course!).
Aaron
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So, after a small break, I am getting back into this again. A small bit of advice for everyone, if you are at a customer site on their guest wireless and decide on a whim that you would like to update to your Wordpress to the latest version; check to make sure they don’t have FTP blocked BEFORE you delete files and try to FTP the latest version. Doh!
The site was down for about 12 hours until I could get home and get everything back in shape. I’ll be updating plug-ins and testing today. More posts will follow shortly. Thanks again for coming by!
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