there will be currently no update as I’m on vacation 🙂

I found a very good iphone app to manage a vmware environment. This app is called vmanage and is available for 2.39€ which is quite cheap. You have to configure your vCenter or ESXi server in the following way. Start testing … if you need a VPN connection start this first and after you have successfully opened the …

Richard from VMware provided me with this link to a nice helpful toolbar for FF/IE. This toolbar gives you instant access to documentation, patches, live peer to peer chat and more. Special thanks to Richard! 🙂

My HP Dl115 G5 is now running Proxmox VE. My first impression is that this is a quite good virtualisation plattform. I have created some virtual machines (OpenVZ using the templates and KVM using a Ubuntu 10.04 iso) which was really easy! In the next days I’m going to run some tests with different configurations. In …

Today I found the following link Proxmox. In the next days I’m going to install my HP ML115 G5 with Proxmox VE.

Variables: $ServerIP = "YourESXiServerIP" $SysLog = "YourSyslogServerIP" Configure Syslog server using Powershell function syslog { $VMHost = Get-VMHost -Name $ServerIP Set-VMHostSysLogServer -VMHost $VMHost -SysLogServer $SysLog -SysLogServerPort 514 } Configure NTP server and restart NTP service …

Today we got our first HP DL380G6 server with 2x 2,8GHz Intel Nehalem, 72GB RAM and 2x 146GB Disks. I have successfully installed VMware ESXi 4 on this box. After this I have started the configuration. In the next days I’m going to run some test on this box and hopefully get the 2nd HP Dl380G6. I’m currently working on …

I found a cool tool to run multiple putty instances in 1 window and this tool is able to send 1 command to all open sessions. Putty Connection Manager

trying Ubuntu Eucalyptus Cloud on a Virtual Machine (Cloud Controller, Walrus, Storage Controller) and a SUN Blade (Node Controller) Setup done register Node on Cloud Controller download a Virtual Machine image try to start the Virtual Machine –> no success got always the message “pending” got some strange Error …