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vSphere Version 4 previously had an absurdly low limit for iSCSI and Fiber Channel datastores at 2 Terabytes –512KB.   Why do I say absurdly low?   2TB isn’t that much these days and that is especially true when running SQL, Oracle, and Exchange servers. Files servers are almost always beyond the 2TB limit. With …

Is nothing sacred? As the professionally paranoid, we know all too well that we cannot take anything for granted when deploying a new solution. However, one list that has long gone un-scrutinized by the typical IT professional is the published VMware Hardware Compatibility List. A fellow friend of mine in the IT space recently underwent the less than pleasant experience …

…  to their virtual desktop while traveling in Europe. Why is this issue occurring? Did you configure the vSphere environment correctly?  Did the View Administrator make a change that you are unaware of?  Where is the documentation binder, if you even have one? Where should you check first? Since we are focusing on a remote virtual desktop, let’s …

Once upon a time, I had an issue where all of my guests/VM’s would suddenly fall of the network. I could not ping the guests from anywhere in the network, yet the guests never went down; because I was still able to console into them from vSphere. After spending hours on support calls with VMware I finally …

For seasoned engineers working with VMware vSphere, there seems to be no shortage of surprises and gotchas here and there that we often begin to resolve based on reflex. The reflexive response in the field is great, but it sure doesn’t help the greenhorn.  Define “greenhorn”? The symptoms include staring intensely at the monitor waiting for the …