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Readers who have installed and configured VMware ESX in a storage area network (SAN) environment know that all the VMware ESX servers in an environment need to see the same LUNs with the same LUN IDs. This is necessary in order to avoid problems with VMFS resignaturing.

A couple of days ago I wrote about the Quick Migration script that Mike D wrote with Powershell. Like I said, it should be possible to integrate the script with VC. Well this has been done by Dennis of Icomasoft. Icomasoft recently released the Powershell Plugin for VirtualCenter.

Everyone installing more than 2 or 3 ESX hosts at a time should start with scripting their installation in my opinion, why?: it will save time consistent installations no need anymore for doing backups of the ESX host These three should be enough reasons to start scripting.

Stuck in a VM – to release the mouse press the host key October 2nd, 2008 So everybody and their mother has a virtualization product now. Too bad all the vendors could not standardize on the same key (or key combinations) that releases the mouse from a virtual machine’s (VM) console window.

Chosing the best new technologies of VMworld 2008 – Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro and Cisco Nexus 1000v Posted by: David Davis David Davis, Virtualization, VMware ESX, VMworld 2008 I had the honor of being a VMworld 2008 judge for the best new products competition.

New resources for the VirtualCenter certificate renewal process Posted by: Rick Vanover SQL, Rick Vanover, VI3, VirtualCenter, VMware ESX Earlier this year, I posted a blog entry about the certificate configuration for VirtualCenter installations and the fact that the certificate does not get upgraded or renewed as you perform upgrades of VirtualCenter.

VMware’s PR department is hard at work: More case studies Posted by: Bridget Botelho Virtualization, Hyper-V, VI3, VirtualCenter, VMware ESX, Microsoft Windows VMware always has plenty of customers to vouch for their products, and their PR team certainly isn’t shy about sending journalists examples.

VMware just released a new PDF called “VMware VDI Storage Considerations“. This PDF contains some “good to know” facts about protocol behaviour. Just check it out…

————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————— Open-E, a provider of unified IP storage management software, today announced that Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) has been certified for use with Virtual Iron’s server virtualization software.

"Bare metal" was my attempt at being dramatic ;-) Anyway, I really wanted you to know that the standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, was released today for download. This is the no-cost, bare metal hypervisor. Think ESXi, but with Windows and not Linux. More on this in a bit.