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This one worked for me.

Set varlan=Local Area Connection 3
Set varip=172.29.52.56
Set vargw=172.29.52.1
netsh int ip set address name="%varlan%" static %varip% 255.255.255.0 %vargw% 1
netsh interface ip set dns "%varlan%" static 172.29.32.10
netsh interface ip add dns "%varlan%" 172.29.41.10
netsh interface ip set wins "%varlan%" static 172.29.41.10
netsh int ip add wins "%varlan%" 172.29.32.10

Needed tool for vmware

http://www.robware.net/

 

has one of the best small nifty tools för VC2.5/ESX3.x

This makes some tasks much easier

I found an interesting article to read on my QuadCore Vista x64 installation..
 
 
excerpt from webpage:
Windows 7 also scales similarly to Vista when moving from dual- to quad-core. Our database workload showed a whopping 571 percent improvement with the addition of two more cores (Vista showed a 492 percent gain), while our workflow workload experienced a less compelling 15 percent speed-up (Vista gained 58 percent on this test). This latter discrepancy may have more to do with limitations in the MAPI subsystem’s scalability (Windows 7 was already 44 percent faster than Vista on dual-core for this particular workload) than any real limitation in Windows 7.
 
 
The fun action starts with way more than 16 cores.. I only have four. Should I go back to Windows XP x64 ?? I wonder 🙂
 
 

Vmware – Beaconing problems

http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2008/12/using-beaconing-to-detect-link-failures-or-beaconing-demystified.html

Ive had this "untraceable" problems, looks like theres a solution for it.

BBC HD goes Sweden.

I finally get some more channels to watch..

and one of them is BBC HD !!

BBC HD

Welcome to BBC HD

BBC HD is the UK’s first free-to-air
high definition channel. It offers a wide range of programmes from
across all BBC channels – from Strictly Come Dancing to The Proms, The
Tudors to Britain from Above, and major sporting moments like Wimbledon
and Euro 08.

BBC HD currently broadcasts between 6.20pm and
midnight with extended hours at weekends and for live events that are
in HD. This will increase to nine hours a day during 2009.

December is full of new and exciting programmes on the BBC HD
channel including In the Night Garden, Oceans, Apparitions and
Survivors.

Vmware goes View

I was catching up with View and trying to get hold of the new licenses that we need when we are upgrading from VDI 2.1 to View 3.0
This isnt done in 15 minutes 😦

Ill get back when I succeeded.

Meanwhile enjoy Brians excellent blogspost with pros and cons about the product..

Well now its time for a meeting with Wyse. Lets see what they have up their sleeve..

Found a nifty tool to do some good inventory (no nice graphs, thats what you have piecharts and excel) mmm Pie..

For those of you that doesnt know if youre forgot to disconnect the cdrom or like me have way to many servers to look at.

Take a good long look at Robs tool RVtools and use it for reporting and a quick look

http://robware.net/

Found at an excellent blogg : http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/11/12/cool-tool-update-rvtools-21/

This is an interesting example of what the future will bring us.

So far my direct problems causes none of these issues, but Ill eventually move in to that complex area. For a normal user this will not be a problem stick with the same instruction sets and look it up before you add ESX hosts.

NFS has come as  a strong alternative to FC when it comes to Vmware infrastructure thoughts.
Most of the hardware is in place in our serverroom, were only missing a few 10GB interfaces to start a small test.
This and Netapp would do wonders for our disaster recovery plans.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1078