Plain Virtualization

Like to share this incident which I encounter twice.  Once was during our ASEAN demo lab and the next is one incident that was reported by one user in our VMUG-ASEAN Group in Facebook. VMs started shutting down after 1 hour by itself automatically and on vCenter you start to see memory status changes. Source: VMUG-ASEAN group in Facebook From the above, you see that memory state changes.  The first thing most people thought was there must be some issue or misconfiguration on the vSphere portion. Further checks and view, the host and VM seems to be healthy and this is affecting a majority of VMs.  Further isolation, all these were running Microsoft Windows. The first thing I wanted to confirm was to run a VM that is non-windows to make sure this is not due to OS issue.  Instead of installing one, you can use a tiny VM version small and won't take up much resource from here . The VM runs normal and nothing happens.  This confirmed is not a vSphere ...

In my previous posts on Horizon Mirage, Installation on Mirage 3.6 What's New in Horizon Mirage 4.2 What's New in Horizon Mirage 4.3 You would have find some of the things like e.g. leaving blank for SQL server entry if you are using the default instance name. Also Best Practice to upgrade Horizon Mirage can be found in a KB here . In Horizon Mirage 4.4, you will enter the SQL server name without the SQL instance name if you have use the default instance name e.g. MSSQLSERVER (in this case it's call unnamed instance not sure why).  This is required as shown during installation of Horizon Mirage Management Server and Horizon Mirage Server as shown below:   In Horizon Mirage there are a few changes.   The main new added is the Edge server.  Now instead of placing your Mirage Server in the DMZ and be compromise with security attacks or require a need of using VPN, now you have a Edge server to handle that piece just like what in Horizon View Security s...

With the release of vSphere 5.1 Update 1, all components that has a dependency with vCenter would be updated.  That would include vCenter Heartbeat, Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, vSphere Storage Appliance, vCloud Director, vSphere Data Protection and not forgeting VMware Converter Standalone. As we all know that VMware Converter Standalone is free comparing with other Converter products which are chargeable by per system/VM.  But the reason that most of us would go to other solutions because we have systems with GPT disks or UEFI firmware interface. With the release of VMware Converter Standalone 5.1, it now has new features with the support of UEFI source machines as well as GPT support and many other which you can refer to the Release Notes .  Of course with the new release it will also support the latest OS like Windows 8 and Windows 2012 and file format EXT4. Though this support came a little bit late, but at least now we are able to save a littl...