VMware Player creates VM's ... WHAT?!!

So I admit it I have been out of the loop on VMware player for the good bit of 2 years. I have been using workstation for all my VM creation and testing stuff. Then I check out the www.yellow-bricks.com post on creating an ESXi thumbdrive install with VM player and I was like "hold, on, wait a minute.". So it's not new to all you smart people but I guess that you can now create VM's with VMware player. So here is to all you people smarter than myself :).

Here is the link to the post : http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/1/10/vsphere-esxi-4-0-on-a-usb-memory-stick/!

Cool Stuff to know no doubt. :)

Talk to you guys again soon.

OH - P.S. Check out Sakac's post at virtual geek if you want to work at EMC! :P

edit ... spelling errors. Fast typing 4tl.

Dell Certs.

My employer needed me to tag some certs from Dell so that we can get better discounts ... etc. Not a problem you know anything that I can do. Fine ... Fine.

I was going through the VMware and PS series storage information and the test that they had posted is WRONG.

They have the answers for HA and DRS flipped.

Dell please inform your training people that VMware HA is NOT a global resource scheduler.

Also please let them know that VMware DRS does not provide automatic rehosting of VM's from a failed server.

Had to guess what Dell thought the answer was through trial and error. Goodness.

Please feel free to contact me for the links to the VMware documentation.

K' thanks.

Desktop Virtualization.

OK. So I know that we should avoid being protocol passionistas, but DEAR GOD. I loaded Sun's Virtual Box to provide an XP vm instead of my stand-by of many years VMware Workstation. I have configured everything per the instructions and made multipe tweaks but the VM just hogs every resoure and it shouldn't ... this never happened with Virtual Server 1.0, 2.0 or even workstation 6.0-7.0. Going to head back to my old stand-by as I bid adieu to an obviously inferior product.

I can only imagine how bad Sun's enterprise hypervisor would be if their desktop porduct is this poor.

Craiggo out.

VCP 4.

So I had Pneumonia for the last 2 weeks or so. UGH NOT FUN!

On Saturday the 19th, I had a fever of 102 and had to go in and take my VCP 4 Exam. Thinking that I TOTALLY flubbed it, I was pleasantly suprised when I got a score high enough to be a VCI.

Just in case you didn't know the upgrade period for VI3 VCPs has been extended until Jan. 31st.

Now before you get all flamey on me check the certification portion of VMware's web site as this was updated to reflect the change recently.

Where did all my SPARK posts go? I'll try to find those talk to you soon.

The SPARKs, types and abilities.

It's been a long time since I have talked about "SPARK"s and their impact on IT and the lack of HR professionals to realize what they might have, all BEFORE they interview with the hiring manager. It's been almost a year in fact. Please feel free to read my multipart posting frenzy on this topic HERE. In this next series of articles I wanted to address the different types of "SPARK"s and how they will impact any environment that they are dropped into.

The different "SPARK"s that I can think of are listed below:

SPARK

IGNITION SPECIALIST

DEMOLITION SPECIALIST

CONFLAGRATION EXPERT

M.O.F. - MASTER OF FIRE

There may be more in the coming days or weeks as I add content specific to these categories. But this is a good starting point.

Talk to you all soon.

Piece :P

Already Been Said ... BUT ..

So many of you who follow the VMware and virtualization industry closely, know that VMware Workstation 7.0 was released a couple of days ago. If you haven't used it or it's been a while ... pop over to www.vmware.com to pick up a copy. If you use it all the time, update your copy nice new features listed here it's now supported to run vSphere4 in a VM ... NICE :).

Exchange 2010 RTM.

W00T!

Exchange 2010 is RTM.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Time to tighten up your understanding since much was changed.

Also if you plan to do co-existence with 2007 and 2010 you need to make sure that 2007 is at SP2.