More vSphere 4.1 Enhancements – Welcome Back PVSCSI Driver!
As I keep digging into documents and KB articles I keep finding more and more things to like about vSphere 4.1. Today’s find has to do with the PVSCSI driver. With the release of vSphere 4.0, VMware added a new paravirtualized SCSI driver into the VMware Tools that provides better virtual disk performance than the standard LSI driver. The PVSCSI…
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Nice Addition to vSphere 4.1 Enterprise License
When vSphere 4.1 was released a lot of people were talking about all of the amazing new features available in the product. Along with introducing many new features, VMware also shuffled around some existing features into different license levels. The one that got the most press was that vMotion was now available in vSphere Standard as well as the Essentials…
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vMotion of clustered VMs is supported in vSphere 4.1..or is it?
While looking over some of the new vSphere 4.1 documentation I noticed that VMware had updated their Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service document. As clustering becomes a bigger component of Microsoft’s enterprise applications, support for clustering in vSphere becomes even more important. As in previous versions of this document they list the limitations for clustering on vSphere. …
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Issues updating VMware Tools with Update Manager
I recently updated a lab environment to vSphere 4 Update 2 and wanted to upgrade VMware Tools on several VMs at once. I decided to use Update Manager to push out the VMware Tools update, and during the process discovered an issue between Update Manager and newer versions of Windows. I didn’t try any of the following with vSphere 4.1.…
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Welcome to thelowercasew.com!
Hi and welcome to thelowercasew.com! After blogging for Kraft Kennedy’s blog (my employer) for the past year and a half I decided to start blogging on my own. I’ll be writing for both blogs at the same time so I’ll try to keep the content fresh in both places and do my best to entertain and educate. And getting some…
