Lately I’ve been involved in the as beta tester by Symantec for their “BackupExec 2010 plugin for vmware”. The idea behind this plugin is to provide end user the capability to monitor the status of their “protected” VM directly from the Vsphere console. The Backup Exec Management Plug-in for VMware lets administrators use the vSphere … Read More →
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Power off a VM when it is stuck
Got a mail from a customer who just started to “play” with vmware and asked me the following question: How I may force a VM to powering off when is stuck at 95%? So my first consideration was: on VMware Esx or Esxi? So again since in the future everyone will have to use esxi … Read More →
The curios case of the IBM BLADE HS22 without local disks
The curios case I faced up this morning is about installing VMware Esxi 4.1 on a IBM Blade HS22 with local SAS disk. Now before deep inside the case I would like to let you notice that the customer already did a successful installation on the same blade last week using an VMware ESX 4.1 … Read More →
