Posted in General, tagged vCenter Update on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From our TAM:
VMware VirtualCenter Server 2.5 Update 6 is now available. This update provides the following improvements:
Guest Operating System Customization Improvements
Support for Firefox 3.x Browsers with VirtualCenter Web Access
Bug and security fixes
For details regarding the new fixes and improvements, please refer to the release notes.
VirtualCenter [...]
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 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 General, tagged PDF, vSphere Quick Start Guide on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The PDF version of the vSphere Quick Start Guide is now available for download (GBP £6.26)
Register and use promo code “HOHOHO” until the end of the week to get £1.25 off.
Download your copy today from Lulu website.
Just downloaded my copy today
Posted in General, tagged VCP on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From VMware:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING VCP WELCOME KITS
VMware has experienced a surge in newly certified professionals. We are excited to be welcoming so many new (and upgrading!) people to the VCP family. As a result of this surge, the sending of VCP Welcome Kits has been delayed. Rest assured, the Technical Certification Team is working through [...]
Posted in General, tagged Maximums on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New page added to blog site detailing vSphere “maximums” – great for those studying their VCP4 and a one page reference for the rest of us.
See Maximums page for more info.
Posted in General, tagged Bug on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week we had a PSOD on one of our 3.5 hosts with the following details in the logs:
<0>Assertion failure in journal_stop() at transaction.c:1415: “transaction->t_updates > 0″
<4>————[ cut here ]————
<4>kernel BUG at transaction.c:1415!
<4>invalid operand: 0000
<4>loop ppdev parport ipmi_devintf ipmi_si_drv ipmi_msghandler ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack ipt_LOG iptable_filter ip_tables vmxnet_console sg usb-storage k
<4>CPU: 0
<4>EIP: 0060:[<c0196614>] Tainted: P
<4>EFLAGS: 00010282
VMware [...]
Posted in General, tagged Facebook on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why not join the ‘a CraZy PeNguIn’ Facebook page here
Posted in General on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just found out the ‘Contact’ page wasn’t working
I’ve now corrected the problem and i’m now getting the messages come through.
Posted in General, tagged Folding on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Folding at home is a distributed computing resource setup to use the spare CPU cycles on a computer to analyse data that will help towards finding out why proteins some times fold the way they do and cause diseases such as BSE, Alzheimer, Parkinson’s etc..
You can download a client for your computer which works in [...]
