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I recently ran into a problem where a user accidently reverted to a snapshot within Lab Manager, they didn’t realize this at first and by the time they did I had upgrade Lab Manager to the latest version (2.5.3). This ended up being a bit of a pain so I thought I would document […]

Windows NLB on VMware ESX

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 studying pretty hard for my VMware VCP certification lately, and needed to learn more about DRS/HA etc.  Without a few tweaks you cannot run ESX inside of Workstation, but here is how you can do it with Workstation 6.  Note: you need to have an Intel VT capable chipset with it enabled […]