EDIFICOM Becomes Iomega Premier Partner

Having worked with Iomega products more and more over the last few years, we are very happy to be recognized as “Premier Partners” by [...]

vSphere v4.1 released

With the release of vSphere v4.1, we take a quick look to see what are major additions and improvements in VMware’s latest [...]

vSphere Patch 5 Results

Good news so far after applying VMware patch 5 for vSphere. No iSCSI connection drops showing in logs since [...]

New Mac Mini Server in Use

The Mac Mini will serve as our Open Directory LDAP system for a new vlan here. Other duties include file sharing and dns services. Soon will be email services. It is also running VMware Fusion, currently hosting Windows [...]

New vSphere Patch Available

A new critical patch for vSphere came out over the Easter weekend, promising a fix for the iSCSI connection drop issue that many people have reported since migrating to vSphere. Although this problem hasn’t caused any reported issues (such as data loss), it can generate a lot of messages in the event logs concerning data path redundancy being lost, so it will be a relief to get rid of those. [...]

Migrate VM’s from Fusion to vSphere

Article explaining how to convert VM’s from a VMware Fusion machine to a vSphere setup using command-line tools rather than the VMware Converter [...]

vCheck v5 Script now Available

Version 5 of the brilliant VMware ESX monitoring script from Virtu-Al is now available and well worth a look…for people upgrading or to those who haven’t tried this yet (shame on you). Following on from previous versions this can be set to run as a scheduled PowerShell task, and will automatically email you a formatted report each time it runs with information on general ESX configuration, possible issues, recent log [...]

Monitoring your VMware environment via iPhone

An article on using the VMware lab’s tool, vCMA, in order to monitor a vSphere environment remotely via the use of a browser-enabled mobile device, like an iPhone or a [...]

Apple Macintosh & VMware Fusion

Apple, the computer of choice for the education & creative departments is increasing its place in the business & IT world.

Not only are these PC’s becoming more powerful and user friendly, they have the option of allowing us to run multiple OS’s for testing and personal use. Why now, we’ve been using the VMware product [...]