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Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

shannonsnowden — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:19:03 -0000

I'm primarily running servers on mine, so I hadn't tried it. I know that http://twitter.com/wygtya is running it as well. I'll echo out your question on twitter.

Re: SRM, Certificates and vSphere Replication

shannonsnowden — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:14:19 -0000

The admin guide has the upgrade steps. I believe if you do an reinstall from the admin guide steps you can point to the new certificate. It could be smoother, for sure.

Re: SRM, Certificates and vSphere Replication

PSmith — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:55:50 -0000

You mentioned "There is a process for replacing them on existing SRM installations." We are trying to replace our SRM certificates and cannot find any documentation on the process. The certificates are created and ready but I want to make sure they are uploaded correctly and that the joining process will go smoothly. Do you have any advice?

Thank you!

Re: How to Address Steve Wozniak’s Cloud Concerns – Just Win, Baby

Shannonsnowden — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:47:26 -0000

Thanks Rick for the comments. It seems that providers don't really discuss or at least highlight the 9's of availability to expect, so the default expectation is "all the time" availability which isn't realistic.

Re: How to Address Steve Wozniak’s Cloud Concerns – Just Win, Baby

Rick Schlander (@vmrick) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:43:45 -0000

Great article Shannon - I'd agree with most of what is said here. The trust level is "getting there" but with some of those recent outages it does have folks concerned. Still, there are other great use cases for public cloud services that supplement current infrastructure.

Re: Microsoft MDOP Virtualization Licensing Reflects their Software as a Service Support

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Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

shannonsnowden — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:06:02 -0000

No drops. It's been really stable since the change.

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

zghauri — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:02:55 -0000

Any updates since setting the vNICs to hard settings? I've bailed on running ESXi natively and now run it in Fusion with no issues but would like to go back if I know it's going to work under load. Thx.

Re: Installing Certificates for vCenter and SRM to Work

shannonsnowden — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:04:09 -0000

Happy to do it. The fewer surprises the better on installations.

Re: Installing Certificates for vCenter and SRM to Work

Dgray — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:57:49 -0000

Thanks for the heads up.

Daren

Re: SRM, Certificates and vSphere Replication

Luke @ThepHuck — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:14:53 -0000

Great article! Thanks for the mention & link to my post!

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

shannonsnowden — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:18:39 -0000

None so far. I'll start pushing it a bit harder in the next couple of weeks to see if it will break.

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

shannonsnowden — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:18:02 -0000

I've had 5-8 VMs running concurrently on it so far. I've just been trying to get it stable for a period of time, then measure performance.

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

Marc v — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:04:20 -0000

Any drops since pre 6/14 nic change?

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

Marc v — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:33:20 -0000

I have seen this happen with other 2011 mac mins where you need to manually set the nic to full duplex 1000 when connected to a Cisco SG 200-50 gigabit switch. I hope your fix takes care of the issue - keep us posted. Thanks!!

On a side note - how is the performance when it is running? How many VMs do you have working at any give time?

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

shannonsnowden — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:44:46 -0000

I've been able to get them going by resetting the network settings from the DCUI, but I'll try unplugging and plugging it in to see if we at least have a behavior pattern.

Re: ESXi 5 on Mac Mini – First Problem (with update)

zghauri1 — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:23:45 -0000

I have two mac minis that exhibit the exact same behavior. I use them to demo vC Ops and to put load on them, I run VMmark but they don't last long. Once they drop off, the only semi-tolerable solution seems to be to pop the cable in and out and reconnect. Really need to sort this out to get any value out of this setup.

Re: VMware SRM and Zerto Data Replication: The Art of Disaster Recovery

shannonsnowden — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:15:57 -0000

From the technical standpoint, Zerto utilizes host-based replication so it doesn't require array-based replication at all. SRM 5 also has host-based replication, but Zerto has more capability as far as lower Recovery Time Objective (RTO) (it can be a matter of seconds) where SRM 5 is limited to 15 minute minimum RTO.

If there is an HA event, SRM host-based replication requires a complete re-sync once the VM is restarted on another server in the cluster. With Zerto, this is not necessary.

Re: VMware SRM and Zerto Data Replication: The Art of Disaster Recovery

sara — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:16:14 -0000

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Although you can use SRM’s Virtual Replication when you don’t have array-based replication, Zerto is the one I recommend." I'd like to understand your reasoning for this - technical and non technical. Can you please elaborate?

Re: Do We Really Need VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) VMworld 2011 Update – (Now Called Horizon Mobile)?

shannonsnowden — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:16 -0000

Thanks Christian. It was great to meet you by the way. Like I said, I'd be happy to talk to any of the VMware MVP team to give them a chance to discuss their ideas of it's use case. In many ways, MVP reminds me of VMware's ACE product. In theory, ACE is a good idea, but other products like View and ThinApp pretty much have displaced that product. Further, VMware is acquiring so many products they are, in effect, competing with themselves. Why would I virtualize Zimbra on MVP when I already have a Zimbra client on my iPhone or Android device?

Re: Tech Field Day: Some Take Away Thoughts

shannonsnowden — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:38:20 -0000

Same here Tom. Absolutely will bring the good stuff next time.

Re: Tech Field Day: Some Take Away Thoughts

Tom Howarth — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:46:33 -0000

it was a honor meeting you Shannon. here to the next time and this time remember the bourbon ;)

Re: Xen on ARM 9 Processor=Xen on a PDA

peternakah — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:49:34 -0000

The Xen ARM activity getting led by Samsung continues to advance a Xen hypervisor band-aid for the ARM 9 processor family. Samsung has approved this band-aid at the accomplished few Xen Summit contest and continues to ensure the project's movement forward.

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Re: Weekly Twitter Updates

brisbane seo — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:53:44 -0000

It also developed a "Sabbath Manifesto" smart phone app that reminds people when to shut off their devices, and updates their Facebook and Twitter accounts with a notice that they're signing off. Lots of apps allow users to "check in" to locations,

Re: Turnkey Linux Virtual Appliances – 10 minutes to Mediawiki

Guest — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:04:25 -0000

actually, adding repos ended up being more of a hassle than doing it shannon's way. got it to work in minutes. excellent article!