The following several weeks will be very busy for VMware enthusiasts — especially in the Indianapolis area. Here is a run down of the upcoming events: Raising the Bar, Part V Tuesday July 12th 2011 at Noon ET Live webcast with VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod. Register…
I woke up this morning to find a shocking email from @jtroyer…it started like this: We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. This is very exciting news for me, as previous recipients of this title have been…
Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1. The stop screen showed the following reason: LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: please contact your hardware vendor After working with Dell tech…
This week I worked with a group of people that have a monitoring application — basically a glorified task scheduler for 32bit DOS applications. Among other things, this application attempts to check Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) failover status and send emails (using BLAT.exe) in the event a cluster was unbalanced.…
The other day I noticed two bugs in version 5.38 of the vCheck script. This minor update resolves those bugs and adds a check for 4.1 hosts without Active Directory authentication configured. # Version 5.40- bwuch: Host version greater than/equal 4.1.0 and AD Auth not configured # Version 5.39- bwuch:…