Many people are confused about VMware EVC and how to configure this on their systems. When most people go to configure EVC they attempt to turn it on and get this hardware does not support EVC. Which is untrue for 98% of the attempts. There is more to enabling EVC than many realize.
When you use a virtual firewall, it is with trepidation as the VMs protected by the virtual firewall may live only on a private virtual switch within a VMware ESX server. This leads to the inability to vMotion, or migrate the running VMs to other hosts without first powering them down. This is not very useful, but there is another VMware Virtual Center setting that could help.
Acquiring virtual machines can be difficult if the VM resides upon a virtual machine file system (VMFS). Mainly because nothing but ESX understands a VMFS. Given this how do you acquire the appropriate files for forensic analysis in a forensically sound way?
How to fix the cryptic VMware HA failed with error messages. This is a caustic error that actually has no real meaning other than to say VMware HA could not start, but not actually why!
VMware HA was busted when VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 was applied. VMware HA would fail to fire when a node was down, fail to evacuate VMs when entering maintenance mode, and fail to start VMs, with a not enough resources error, if the second node was down. This all applied to the SMB two node cluster world. With VMware Virtual Center 2.5.0 Update 3 and the 10/3/08 patches for ESX this is now fixed.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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