vCenter 5.x Hardware Status is not available
Problem In the Hardware Status tab of the vCenter you see following message: No new host data available. Data will be updated in 5 minutes When you click Update after a few seconds this...
Virtualization made in Austria
vSphere 5.x Consolidation fails
I got a problem where a VM needs consolidation because of 90 delta files on the datastore. Consolidation is a new feature in vSphere 5.x, which merges all delta file into the base vmdk, althought...
2012 Review, Happy 2013
It's been a while since my last blog post, but the last month were very stressful. 2012 was an awesome year. I started to blog in January and it wasn't as easy as I...
VMworld 2012 Europe Partner Day
Second day for me at VMworld Europe and it's partner day. I got up at 7am and I was at the Fira de Barcelona at 8:15. After a one hour walk I finally found...
VMworld 2012 Europe Day Zero
Finally I have made it to Barcelona. My flight had a 40 minute delay and on Twitter I could read the messages about the public transport strike. Great isn't it? All the Austrian Partner...
VMworld 2012 US is over.
After one week full of virtualization and in the middle of my vacation, it’s time for a short recap of VMworld 2012 US. The first big announcement was that VMware got rid of the...
HP Microserver N40L Home Lab Server / ML110 G6/7 Comparision
Chris Wahl had posted a great video preview about the HP Microserver N40L on his blog. It’s now time for me to update his preview with few informations and I will give a short...
Upgrade to vSphere 5 Update 1 with MSCS
ESXi 5.0 uses a different technique to determine if Raw Device Mapped (RDM) LUNs are used for MSCS cluster devices. During a boot of an ESXi system the storage mid-layer attempts to discover all...
VMware released Horizon Application Manager 1.5
Yesterday VMware finally released the Horizon Application Manager 1.5. For more Information check this blog post.
VMware released View 5.1 and vCenter Operations for View 1.0
Today, VMware released View 5.1, vCenter Operation for View 1.0 (Add-On Connector to vCenter Operations 5) and a public beta program for Project Octopus (http://www.vmwareoctopus.com). vCenter Operations for View End User Computing