Plain Virtualization

This is my first time doing the client setup. Let's dive right in. Refer to the this installation guide for client setup. Please note that I am documenting based on Ubuntu 18.04. If you are using RHEL or CentOS, your commands may differ. Also some commands are different from the installation guide and these are the catchas I am showing here. Overview for vSphere Bitfusion Client Download the vSphere Bitfusion Client where version is similar to the vSphere Bitfusion Server Check that the vSphere Bitfusion Plugin is workin in the vSphere Client VMware Tool is installed and you are able to see the four power functions in the VM edit setting Make sure vmnic is on VMNET3 power on the VM Install the .deb package, your client will need to be connected to internet as you will need to install some software dependencies before installing the agent Query the package to find out the dependencies > sudo dpkp-deb -I bitfusionxxxx.deb install all the listed dependencies > sudo apt -y ins...

Recently the most talk about security measurement against the two discovered vulnerabilities has raised a lot of talks. This all started and revealed by  Google Project Zero . I have also recently shared advice from VMware support and KBs to our Singapore VMUG users during our event yesterday. Below is a summary of questions and the approach you should be doing for patching your VMware environment. Details on Spectre and Meltdown https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/01/what-are-spectre-and-meltdown-and-why-should-you-care/ https://blog.barkly.com/meltdown-spectre-patches-list-windows-update-help Technical explanation:   http://frankdenneman.nl/2018/01/05/explainer-spectre-meltdown-graham-sutherland/ Side Notes ESXi is only affected by Spectre and all patches for ESXi 5.5. and above has been released. Removed due to retracting of code instructed by Intel. Check update below. ESXi is NOT affected by Meltdown as it does not have untrusted user ac...

References Quick-start guide for deploying Office 2010 using ThinApp 4.6.1 Issues with ThinApp and Microsoft Office 2010 Office 2010 Tips 2010 I wanted to do Thinapp on Microsoft Office 2010 and realize the above information and details are pretty useful.  However its not in order and its difficult to piece up.  So here I have order them up for easy reference.  I will not go into details what each steps is all about as its already mentioned in the above references. Requirements One clean Windows XP SP3 (Thinapp does not support capture in a 64bits OS) Thinapp 4.6.1 and above Microsoft 2010 32bits setup files (MAK/KMS/Retail license) dotNet Framework 3.5 (full download here ) Procedures Run Thinapp prescan capture of the OS Install dotNet Framework 3.5 In Command Prompt, run "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngen.exe executequeueditems" Edit Office 2010 installation Config.xml file to enter your MAK key: By default, the Config.xm...

Once again, I have just learned about iSCSI Multipathing and tested it out in my home lab using a openfiler as my iSCSI virtual SAN and with nested ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.0. Reason why I taken such a combination of different Hypervisor is to show how this can be done.  In vSphere 5, where ESXi 5.0, there is a GUI to perform the MPIO binding unlike in vSphere 4.x, this has to be done via the command line.  Even changing the MTU value has been made easy in vSphere 5. You can also do a load balance by changing the path selection to round robin. vSphere 5 vSphere 4 Update : After setting up the mutipath, reboot the esx host and the path would be shown correct. iSCSI binding Commands Changing a vSwitch with MTU 9000 (Optional) >esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitch0 Add a vmknic to a port group with MTU 9000 >esxcfg-vmknic -a -i 172.16.200.91 -n 255.255.255.0 -m 9000 "Port Group" Where port group is the name of the port group. To view your ...