Hi Guys, Firstly I must apologise for this off topic post - but I guess this is proof that I don't spend all my time hidden away in a darkened room living a virtual existence - I am still resisting the usrge to leap into action and do battle against the hoard! On Sunday 22nd I'll be taking part in the Great South Run with a view to raising funds for the Rowans Hospice. I believe that this charity is well worth supporting, not just because it costs a staggering £2.6M each year to run the facility,...

Okay so at last I've bitten the bullet and upgraded a couple of servers to VI3. Generally it seems to be straight forward enough - following VMware's documentation, although there was one gotcha that did cause more than a little head scratching. There doesn't seem to be to much about it on the web so here's my contribution. It was really a problem of my own making, as I chose to upgrade the servers from the tarball and rather than place the 450MB tarball locally on my ESX host I put it on an NFS...

VMWare have a new product in beta. VMWare's description of the tool is as follows: VMware Converter is a highly robust and scalable enterprise-class migration tool that reduces the time that IT managers spend converting physical machines to VMware virtual machines. Using a snapshot based cloning mechanism that is extremely fast and reliable, VMware Converter enables remote conversions without disrupting the source server during the conversion process. It looks like it has a hell of a lot of promise...