VMware Fusion users with 2012 hardware update your OSX

VMware Fusion users with hardware from 2012 that uses the NVidia chipset are probably aware of the problem that occurred after running the Macbook Pro Update 2. You could no longer use 3D in your virtual machines as it tended to crash your virtual machines. As I had to run that update after while as well, I was eagerly waiting for an update from VMware to address this. Continue reading

I have been a little remiss with my blog recently.

I have been a little bit remiss with my blog recently due to personal issues,  I hope to change that.

These are some of the things that I will be blogging on over the next couple of months.

  • P2V – a 101 and how to move it to an industrial scale.
  • View 5.2 a 101 and then an advanced series

Further and contrary to popular belief, the world does not know what Cloud is,  there are still a lot of gaps in peoples understanding.  I will therefore be doing a series on what is cloud and what are the differing aaS’s out there ( and no that is not a naughty statement – it stands for As A Service ;) )

 

Problems while adding an NFS share to vSphere

Today I was trying to add a NFS share from a NAS device to my vSphere lab servers. I’ve used these same NFS shares before, but I had a lab setup so did not care too much that the NFS shares were not on an isolated network. This weekend I decided to fix that sloppy setup and move traffic to isolated NIC’s in their own VLAN. Simple I thought, a quick job.

Somehow just moving the shares to a new network segment on another VLAN broke things. I was puzzled and should have asked Tom I suppose.. but as a good IT guy I had to dig until I find out why by myself. Continue reading