Monthly Archives: February 2008

VI Client passthrough authentication

A much discussed feature is acually present in the VI Client, that is the ability to have the local userID and password automatically used to authenticate against the VC server.  According to this post it is as simple as changing … Continue reading

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Are your VMs running slow after 3.5 upgrade? Do you have DRS?

I was worried about the health of my VMs after I upgraded (rebuilt, not an in-place, never in-place upgrade) to ESX3.5 and VC 2.5. My VC VM was using 100% cpu and my VI client connections were timing out, also … Continue reading

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Storage VMotion and Windows NFS wrinkle

I found a weakness in my use of a windows server to my NFS datastores when I went to migrate my SBS server to the NFS datastore as a part of my VI3.5 upgrade. In an earlier post (Windows NFS … Continue reading

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