February 19, 2009
I completely forgot to add Bjorn Bats as a blogger in the Dutch bloggers list. Shame on me, because he is blogging for quit a while.
Sorry Bjorn, but you are added now! If you know any blogger who i forget, please email me!
The second one who i forgot is Ruben Spruijt. He is a Dutch blogger about Citrix and virtualization and has a blog at BrianMadden.com. He is also involved in project VRC at www.virtualrealitycheck.net
I also want to promote Gabes first video at:
www.gabesvirtualworld.com
Gabe is also on the Dutch bloggers list and has created a very funny video about his trip to VMworld in Cannes. This is a must see!
Our P.I. on virtualization is investigating a hot case named VMworld! click on the picture to see the video.
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February 10, 2009
Today, i have updated the Dutch bloggers list. I added a blogger called Rob van Hamersveld. I also made the page better readable and added rss feeds for each site. I placed an language icon with the bloggers name so you can see in which language the blogger writes.
There are now a total of 21 bloggers on the list! Go see for you self and add them to your rss reader.
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January 21, 2009
Today i changed my links page to “Dutch bloggers list”. In the Netherlands we have a lot of VMware fans and also a lot of good virtualization bloggers. Since there is no such list for Dutch bloggers, i decided to create one.
Check it out on the menu above. If i forgot someone or you are starting a Dutch blog about VMware virtualization, please let me know and i will add your site!
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January 16, 2009
Netapp released a document about Snapmanager for Virtual Infrastructure.
SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure provides local backup and recovery capability with the option to replicate backups to a remote storage system via SnapMirror relationships.
Backups can be performed on individual virtual machines or on datastores with the option of updating the SnapMirror relationship as part of the backup on a per job basis. Similarly, restores can be performed at a datastore or individual virtual machine level.
You can find it here:
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3737.pdf
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January 15, 2009
When you install an ESX server, the default memory which is allocated for the service console is 272 MB. When you have a few agents running like the HP or APC agents you need to adjust this memory.
Today on one host i got some Memory checker warnings. This indicates that the console memory is too low. By increasing this memory the errors are gone. You can check this by finding memory checker errors in your hostd.log file like these:
2008-04-18 09:43:24.241 ‘Memory checker’ 78818224 warning] Current value 164768 exceeds soft limit 122880.
[2008-04-18 09:43:54.252 'Memory checker' 19962800 warning] Current value 164768 exceeds soft limit 122880.
[2008-04-18 09:44:24.263 'Memory checker' 78818224 warning] Current value 164768 exceeds soft limit 122880.
To adjust the memory, you need to reboot before changes take effect. You can see on the picture where you can change the setting on the esx host on the configuration tab:
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January 15, 2009
I added a few links to SRM articles on my SRM links page. You can see them by clicking the SRM links button on the top of this blog.
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January 13, 2009
Duncan Epping just posted a good article about the other site of Site Recovery manager, and that is good planning and analyzing. click on the picture to read it:
Site Recovery Manager is not about installing… Part II
I think the big problem relays on the fact that Site Recovery software installation are initiated from technical perspective. System administrators know the technology very well, but recovery scenarios needs to be considered from business perspective.
This includes a lot of planning, but also a good change management procedure. And those things are not seen in the vocabulary of the system administrator.
The biggest challenge is to let system administrators cooperate with people who understand business needs and can maintain good procedures! The good thing about Site recovery manager is the fact that there is an easy test procedure which can help you analyze if things work as they should be.
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January 9, 2009
For a while ago i had plans to develop a Falconstor SRM in a box document. Now I am going to cancel this.
Cormac a product engineer from VMware posted an excellent document yesterday on how to configure the Falconstor Virtual Appliance with SRM. Writing such documents demand a great time from the writer. Now there is a complete setup document i am going to put my time in the second version of SRM in a box with the Netapp simulator.
You can download it here.
http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1252
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) his own blog. Christiaan, also known as ChrisR at the dutch VMware user group is a great contributer to this dutch forum (+800 posts) and has great knowledge about VMware in the field. I don’t want to set the expectation to high, but i think you should bookmark this one. His blog is called vmworld.nl and is starting just at the beginning of the VMworld conference in Cannes. Do not mix up this name because it will only start from there and is going to provide all kind of VMware related material, even after this conference! Good luck Christiaan and welcome to the club!
