Calivirtualization

Anytime I think about upgrading our ESX environment (we are currently on 3.5.x) I always run a vmheat grab and ensure that I have all existing firmware for our particular server(s) documented.  Oh, and it helps to have a test server running the same code as the rest of your hosts…  For all intensive purposes [...]

Here are the official release notes.
VMware View Manager 3.1 Release Notes

View Manager Version 3.1 | 27 MAY 2009 | Build 167577 (View Manager), 161885 (View Composer)
Last Document Update: 27 MAY 2009
Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

These release notes cover the following topics:

whatsnew
beforebegin
knownissues
fixedissues

The vanilla view portal is nice and all but I wanted to add some flavor to it.  In our set-up we have external security connection servers and internal connection servers.  First off, let’s have a look at the splash page to see what’s available… Using my unsupported client I launched Firefox along with FireBug (a [...]

I was fumbling around with the vmware support site trying to get my login to work through my EVDO connection when I actually took the time to read the left hand column sidebar.  Much to my amazement I found the Patch Management Alerts.  If you aren’t already signed up, the following link will do the [...]

So, I was presented with a unique opportunity to allow a 3rd party into our network by way of any secured means to transfer files.   My initial thought is this would be a slam dunk as their own requirement was to have a way to transfer files from one to another.  Yeah.. I know what [...]

So.. I’ve been playing around with View for some quite some time, and ran into an interesting issue regarding workstations dropping off the face of the network after performing a re-clone / recomposes / refresh with our persistent linked clone pools…. those pesky SID errors and kerberos messages.. *sigh*.
It turns out it had to do with [...]