Archive for December, 2008
VMFS LUNs Report
Posted on December 4th, 2008 in Storage, Tips | 1 Comment »
Gabesvirtualworld posted Prevent your LUNs running out of space remind me about my VMFS LUNs space. Personally I don’t agreed about create a dummy vmdk on each LUN. Why? Arnim, you still have to wake up at 3am if received any calls. Just a joke!
Have a look here:
VMware ESX VMFS LUNs Report.

Microsoft Hyper-V Jokes?
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 in Hyper-V, Industry News, Virtualization | 2 Comments »
The comparison between VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V is not new to me or you today.
Frankly speaking, I’m big fans of VMware and I would like to share the related news – Microsoft Hyper-V jokes.
Microsoft to do what VMware does nearly 10 years later – From Mike RTFM
ESX Server beats Hyper-V – DanteDog’s Blog
So how important is LiveMigration/VMotion now?
Hyper-V, not in my datacenter Part 1 – Gabes Virtual World
Hyper-V, not in my datacenter Part 2 – Gabes Virtual World
Hyper-V, not in my datacenter Part 3 – Gabes Virtual World
Will Microsoft sunset VMware? – 18 months later
Hyper-V with Server Core — Too Dry and Crunchy for our Taste
Shotcuts for VM on VMware Server 2.0
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 in Server, Tips | No Comments »
As many of the users who used the previous version of the VMware Server, there were no shortcuts on your desktop which provide direct access to the VM console without logging into the web console.On VMware Server 2.0, you will have the flexibility of doing this which is placing a shortcut on your desktop and allow you to log in to the VM console directly.
VM Linux Guest Kernel Compilation Error
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in Tips, Workstations | 2 Comments »
I have a OpenSuSE 11 running on my laptop VMware Workstation 6.5.1 recently. During VMware Tools installation, I found a weird error show as below:
“The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.”
vmblock
vmhgfs
vmmemctl
vmxnet
Execution aborted.



