New View 4 documentation now available
Forget the actual product, this is what I’ve been waiting for 🙂 VMware View 4 documentation is now available for download: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html
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vReference card 2nd page beta
I’ve been working hard on creating the supplementary page that I discussed and asked for feedback here. I’ve been concentrating on the areas which are mentioned in the VCP4 blueprints, but are not covered in the card at the moment. These are core parts of vSphere, but a probably not as important as the ones […]
Don't make /tmp too small
The default GUI install of ESX4 makes the /tmp partition 1GB and even then it is only categorized as optional. I’ve been asked several times why you’d want to make /tmp any bigger. If it fills up you just clear it out, right? Well here’s a good reason. It seems that VUM (vCenter Update Manager) […]
Dangerous default on ESX 4
My colleague (thanks Kevin), just alerted me to a default setting on ESX 4, which I think is potentially dangerous these days. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on an ESX 4 console, it will reboot the server even if there are running VMs and it doesn’t care if the server is not in Maintenance Mode. This […]