Recently I have setup a NLB IIS site with 2 VM’s in a DRS/HA cluster.  Because of this using unicast mode was not an option (we need to be able to vMotion the virtual machines).  Multicast is also the way VMware recommends setting it up.  From VMware’s site:
Note: VMware recommends configuring the cluster to use […]

I’ve been playing around a little recently with Thinstall (which was recently acquired by VMware).  Basically it will take an application and turn it into a self-contained single EXE that doesn’t require an install.
It’s extremely easy to use, I setup a fresh install of XP in VMware Workstation, created a snapshot then you run […]

I recently got around to installing Server 2008 on ESX again, I had installed an earlier build before and had to do a number of things to get it installed (load drivers during setup etc). 
 

 
Build 6001 installed fine, the only catch I had was I initially set the type to Windows 2003 Enterprise […]

Being a NetApp partner, generally every ESX installation I do is backed by NetApp storage.  I had been looking for an open source package that I could run on ESX to monitor the ESX server as well as NetApp storage appliances.
I started out using unnoc, and it seems to do what I am after.  […]

Overall I had hoped the event would be more technical.  It was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  This picture is looking outside from Moscone West.

 
The sessions were good but didn’t really go as in depth as I would have liked.
On Tuesday I sat in on the following presentations:

VMware Infrastructure 3 […]

What a trip, really good event - I think I heard there ended up being about 12,000 attendees.  Unfortunately I missed the opening speeches where ESX Server 3i was unveiled - although this had been a rumor for awhile now.
Speaking of 3i that was one of the items in our gift bags, a USB stick […]