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Gotta love Twitter!  I received a note for Vaughn Stewart from NetApp about this post and that there is a hotfix for this exact issue.  Looking at the release notes for ESX 3.5U4 the hotfix was rolled into this.  So if you’ve upgraded to U4, the hotfix is there but you do need to confirm that the setting for NFS.LocksDisable is set back to a value of 0.

I found this article that was linked from Scott Lowe.  It’s about enabling NFS.disableLock settings in ESX when using NFS – particularly when following NetApp’s Best Practice Guide TR3428.

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I must have totally spazzed out!  I get my e-mails for new posts on a different mailserver (to avoid spam) and I had it configured for my iPhone.  However, I didn’t realize I had it set for manual fetch!!!
My apologies!!!

Just a random thought I had – Imagine if one day you could run a Type2 hypervisor (VMware Fusion, Parallels for Mac, etc) on the new version of OS X, Snow Leopard, that could run better then a bare metal hypervisor?  I know, I know, there are probably hundreds of limitations right now, I’m just thinking in the near future.

Snow Leopard will introduce a 64-bit platform for the first time in OS X which includes a feature called “Grand Central Dispatch” that will allow OS X to better utilize multi-core processors.  In addition, Snow Leopard will also utilize “OpenCL” which allows the system to leverage the graphical processing unit (GPU) for things other then graphics…maybe running VM’s?  Obviously there are partnerships with Apple and VMware, Parallels, etc.  Would it be possible if VMware started utilizing OpenCL and Grand Central that it might outperform the Type1 boys?  It would be exciting if it did!

In my neverending quest to run a decent ESX lab at home I’ve been messing around with some storage options on the cheap.  Currently I use my iMac to serve up NFS storage to my ESX and ESXi hosts at home.  This works fine but I wanted something a little, well…better!

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One of the attractive points of Citrix’s XenDesktop is that it includes XenServer to use as a hypervisor to support your guest desktops.  However after 5 months of using XenServer with XenDesktop and some organizational changes at my currently place of employment which opened up some ESX licenses, I’ve decided to migrate my XenDesktop environment to VMware.

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First, I apologize to the four readers of this blog for the lack of posts.  My wife and I are expecting our second child any day now and I’ve spent the last 2 months or so finishing my basement, painting new rooms, etc so I haven’t had a lot of time to blog.  However part of my finished basement included a new home office/lab/geek-center.

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Last year Citrix acquired Sepago who’s User Profile Manager was a somewhat unheard of technology.  Citrix now calls this product “Portable Profiles” and it’s included with XenDesktop 3.0 Advanced edition and higher.

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I was reading Rick’s blog at vmwaretips.com and discovered this wonderful healthcheck script from Rick, as well as a kick ass Powershell script from Virtual IEF.

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Mike D’s blog has some really funny links and posts in conjunction with VMWare’s vExpert’s program.

I’ve been meaning to get around to testing out NetApp’s SnapManager for Virtual Infrasturcture (SMVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Backup Engine (VIBE) for a while now.  I had a chance to play around with both of them and I really like these solution as an alternative to VMWare’s Consolidate Backup.

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