18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls I wish this information was available 10 years ago when I started working with virtualization, but then again, like many reading this, I thought I was an expert and didn’t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]

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Naming Standard for Virtual Infrastructure

Like a new mom and dad, have you given any thought to what naming standards you plan to use for your new virtual environment? Right, I said naming standards because you will have to have names for the VirtualCenter or VMM, datacenter, clusters, data stores (LUNs), ESX or Hyper-V host servers, VLAN tags, VM guests, [...]

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Step One – Start your VMware ESX Install by Creating a Checklist of Important Information

Step one in our step-by-step VM installation process is to make a pre-installation checklist with important information. Before you even think about installing any software, make a checklist. The checklist will save you hours of frustration later on when the troubleshooting begins, which believe me, you will troubleshoot a lot while performing the simplest VM [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 3 Comments

VMware Lab Manager 3.0 Requires VirtualCenter

After spending a week on what should have been an easy project to designing a student lab environment at a well known online university, I am now stumped because of a change in VMware’s Lab Manager 3.0 requirements. Lab Manager 3.0 now requires VirtualCenter which poses a problem because this lab environment is isolated for security reasons away from the [...]

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