VMware Workstation 7.1, VMware Player 3.1, and VMware ACE 2.7 Beta Release Notes

Vmware announced the beta for vmware workstation 7.
This is just a small capture off the release note's the full details are written here.
I did see the title VMware ACE 2.7 but there are no extra feature's for ace announced.


VMware Workstation 7.1, VMware Player 3.1, and VMware ACE 2.7 Beta Release Notes

New Features in VMware Workstation and VMware Player

•New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems
•OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows 7 and Vista guests
•Improved Graphics Performance
•Automatic Software Updates — Download and install VMware Tools, new, and maintenance releases updates when available.
•Autologon
•OVF 1.0 Support
•Eight-Way SMP Support
•2TB Virtual Disk Support — Maximum virtual disks and raw disks size increased from 950MB to 2TB.
•Direct Launch

Other people are logged on to this computer

Other people are logged on to this computer. Restating Windows might cause them to lose data.
Do you want to continue restarting?

I received this “error” after i wanted to reboot the virtual machine. The interesting question about this is who logged on to this machine. Therefore you need to run the command qwinsta
This displays information about sessions on a terminal server.

Open command prompt xxx use the ip number of the “target” server:
C:\>qwinsta /server:xxx.xxx.xxx
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console admin2 0 Active wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#6 admin14 1 Active rdpwd


This will list the connections.

POC with 3par

Whoohoo

The storage team here is going to have a proof of concept with 3par storage.
That's going to be very interesting.
They asked me if i wanted to join the "testteam" from esx perspective's. Were in the middle of the migration to vsphere but the test's are going to be mainly on the "old 3.5 environment".
If there is time the testing will also take place at the new environment with the mpio settings in place. Iometer is going to be the "measurement tool". Also software developers created a build environment to test with. This all will take place in Januari. Preparing and writing!

its christmas(olmost) :D

mistake's

After i didn't do my exam because of the misplanning i had another issue when installing the new environment. Yea having a great day :D

After installing the new host's i connected the second nic to the service console. Because of this i lost my connection to the host.

Login to the console(local physical machine).

List the nics that are in use by the service console
esxcfg-vswitch -l to list the nic's
Specify the nic you wan't to remove.

esxcfg-vswitch --unlink=vmnic0 vSwitch0
After this vmnic0 is removed from the vswitch and you can connect again to the host with the vi client.

Maybe there is a quicker solution but this worked for me.

Find the password on the host.

Stealing host password's.
The tool used for password recovery is explained on
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1269-Cool-Password-Recovery-Tool.html.

Here is it in action.

Vmware User Group meeting Belgium

Today i received the invitation to visit the FREE vmware user group meeting in belgium.
Last time the location was Superb. So this one's im going to visit and evaluate the location ;) and of course the subject's below are also interesting.

Driving Directions and location info : The Bowling Stones : Wemmel - Steenweg op Brussel 397 - 1780 Wemmel (Brussel)

The agenda of this meeting: (subject to change)

13u15: Welcome (Reinoud Reynders - UZLeuven)
13u20: VMWorld Summary (Nicolas van Wijnsberghe - VMware)
14u00 Installation and Configuration ESX Vsphere - best practices (Gabrie - http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/)
14u45: Break offered by Symantec
15u00 : Protection in a virtual environment (Paul Murgatroyd & Kim Apers - Symantec)
15u30: Upgrade your environment (Jan Tiri - VMWare)
16u15: Microsoft Licensing in a VDI environment (Patrick Viaene-Microsoft)
17u00: Vmug Drink offered by Symantec
To attend this FREE meeting you need to be logged in first (if you are not a member yet, please do so. It's free!)
http://www.vmug.be

Once logged in you'll see a question above 'I will attend'. Then you'll thick yes or no.

road

I didn't had the chance to make picture's at the cdg meeting since my battery died.. But overal is was interesting and fun.

Last month's were like a rollercoaster, preparing for my last mcse exam, learning about Best practises/powershell/vranger/esx environment/ iscsi/ in general troubleshooting esx.
Next goal is getting my vcp exam this is planned for 24 november at 9:00.
Im a little afraid for it because everyone's telling me this one's difficult. But with the help of Simon Long and the books i have, it should be go well^^.

In general the people i speak about virtualisation are openminded people i like that.

CDG Technical Update Event

Today's planning going to visit CDG Roermond (Limburg) to hear:

* VMworld update
* RES Software en VMware View
* Citrix reduces traffic jams on the roads to and from our Dynamic Delivery Center

Ill make some photo's and publish them later.

Vmware highlights Day 0

Vmware logo changed ! They removed the boxes from the logo!
And they presented VMware GO product.

Building the datacenter vmworld 2009

I like this kinda movies :)

Some specs
machines 2 cpu's 8 cores 48GB ram per server
total server 37TB ram
storage 348 TB
virtual machine's 37.248 O-o

Past my exam!

Finally got my mcse status. After alot of study hour's i don't know how may i passed my finaly exam today 70-298 892 points!.
It is a design exam and i found this one the hardest. Even 70-291 was not this hard. Atleast in my opinion.
Now my focus is going to be on vmware. Had my training now going to study for the vcp3 exam. Simon Long gave me some tips for study'ing this exam.
I know it's going to be a hard one but if you like the environment the knowledge's come's by itself.(or something like that).

i can call myself mcse certified \o/

vmware workstation

There is some interesting in the releasenotes of 6.5.3
*
Link to releasenote's
Workstation has been updated to power on the latest Microsoft Virtual PC files (.vhd). VMware recommends that you create a copy or linked clone of the image. If you do not create a copy, you cannot run the original virtual machine in VPC after running it in Workstation, because the virtual hardware layer has been modified.

So if im correct the vhd file's will be running without modding it?

Paths To VCP on vSphere 4 Certification

Paths To VCP on vSphere 4 Certification.

vmetc posted this a while ago. A nice flowchart for becoming vcp4.

vmetc article

queuedepth

Well im still struggeling with the performance of the esx environment.
Duncan had written a nice post about queuedepth.
queuedepth-and-whats-next

Have to dive in it to check with the storage department.

registrated new domain vmred.nl

vmred.nl is now live!
Much easier to find (i you want).
I was keep forgetting my old one.

Uninstalling vranger pro 4.0DPP

Uninstalling vranger pro 4.0DPP

Today I had problems with uninstalling vranger pro 4.0Dpp.

Was getting the error.

Vranger Pro Service couldn't be stopped. – Reason: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.





A quick solve is to stop the vranger pro services (start run services.msc) and them uninstall it again.

Demo video's vsphere from Mike laverick

Mike Laverick created a lot's of demo material for vmworld.

Unfortunately i'm not going. Even with the link to the letter Which Eric Siebert provided me i could't go;) link to letter

For people that aren't going but still want's the information check
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

More input i love it ! did i mention i love the internet? :D

Sysprep file locations and versions vmware

Running sysprep without files can be hard ;) Vmware has a kb about this which is very handy. All the information is in one place. See link at the bodem.

Description:

Symptoms
When attempting to customize the deployment of a virtual machine the radio buttons are disabled (greyed out).
When a virtual machine (VM) is deployed from a Template, you find that the SID is always the same, despite the fact thatyou chose the option to generate a new SID during Template deployment and guest operating system customization.
When attempting to create a new virtual machine from a Template in ESX v3.5 you receive the following error message:

Warning: Windows customization resources were not found on this server
Message in the guestcust.log:
deploy doesn't contain known sysprep files

Link to Knowledge base

Vmug.be 19 june

Last week there was a nice vmug event in belgium. They couldt pick a better place then PALM. I loved the presentations and had a chance to speak to some people. But wow who made the A12(road) in belgium! Bad design! ;)

The presentations are online

•8th meeting on 19 June 2009 - Palm -
download vSp presentation
download Command Central presentation
download backup consistency presentation
view Powershell in a Nutshell Presentation)

http://www.vmug.be/vmug/fullpage.cfm?id=3

Vmware library

A collegea of me had a usefull tip. The online library of vmware.

With a nice little search function ! :)

http://pubs.vmware.com/vi35u2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

And alot of console commands
http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm