Posted in Troubleshooting, tagged mce, PSOD on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Does the acronym PSOD send chills down your spine? Here’s a video which provides some understanding as to what a purple diagnostics screen (PSOD) means, and what it can tell you.
What is a Machine-Check Exception (MCE)?
Understanding the machine-check architecture
Decoding the machine-check exception
Other considerations
Watch the VMware KB Video here
Posted in ESX / ESXi, General, tagged Support on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today VMware announced end of availability of its ESX product range pre-vSphere.
For more info see the announcement here
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What does Extended and Technical support mean?
Extended Support
New hardware platforms are no longer supported, new guest OS updates may or may not be applied, and bug fixes are limited to critical issues. Critical bugs are deviations from specified [...]
Posted in Troubleshooting, tagged ESXPLOT, esxtop on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A great tool released this month for analysing ESXTOP data collected in batch mode. Details from the site:
esxplot is a GUI application that lets you explore the data collected by esxtop in batch mode. The program takes a single command line argument which is the esxtop batch mode output file. You can also simply [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Hardening guide on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just released by VMware – a public draft of the security hardening guide for vSphere:
http://blogs.vmware.com/security/2010/01/announcing-vsphere-40-hardening-guide-public-draft-release.html
Posted in General, tagged Forum 2010 on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the site:
VMware Virtualization Forum 2010 is a free, interactive full day event where you will learn about virtual infrastructure from experts and companies like yours.
You’ll hear from companies of all sizes discuss their virtualization solutions for everything from the desktop to the data center.
Give IT a break. Imagine the day when IT can shift [...]
Posted in Security, tagged IE, Vulnerability on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend I got an SNS global alert through from McAfee about the IE Vulnerability currently being exploited on a global level.
From McAfee site:
Could my organization be at risk of being infected?
The computer code that exploits the Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability has unfortunately been released publicly and is available on the Web. The public [...]
Posted in Troubleshooting, tagged esxtop on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A great post by Duncan over at YellowBricks on the ESXTOP command and the values and thresholds.. it’s in early development but I believe its going to be a great document for us all to reference.
Check out his post here
