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Great new MS clustering KB

18 Apr 2011 Forbes Guthrie3 Comments

(Update: BTW, I’m not being sarcastic.  I really do like this KB very much, I think it’s an excellent resource.) One of my more popular posts that I wrote a couple of years ago was about configuring Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) on VMs.  Getting MSCS configured correctly in VMs has always been tricky.  Even now […]

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I want a template replicator vApp

30 Mar 2011 Forbes Guthrie4 Comments

I want a template replicator vApp… Here’s the problem: Companies that have more than one office split by a WAN link, have problems keeping their templates in sync.  There are two common approaches to this: 1) When updating a template, touch each site and update the same template in each location. 2) Update a master […]

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Manually rolling back a failed ESX 3.5 to 4.x upgrade

15 Feb 2011 Forbes Guthrie1 Comment

I thought I’d write a quick message about this, as much for my own reference.  Maybe someone else out will find it useful one day. Its purpose is to document the changes made by the esx 3.5 to 4.x rollback script. Normally when you do 3.5 > 4.x upgrade, if the upgrade fails then it […]

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Understanding ESXi – stateless, diskless, feckless

10 Feb 2011 Forbes Guthrie7 Comments

There are a couple of terms that are used whilst talking about ESXi design, which always creates confusion.  As many users, now late into the vSphere 4 cycle, consider their migration to ESXi, I want to take a moment to try to clear up these misunderstandings.  Hopefully this might also explain what ESXi is capable […]

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