Yesterday I installed VMware View into my home lab and configured everything successfully. What I discovered was that my router could not do was any Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) so I could not redirect the external IP port 444 to the internal server IP port of 443. I run a web server on port 443 so could not use this external port for View Connection Server. So how do I change the IP Port on the View Connection Server itself? After googling some scenarios I found a link to this page on myvirtualcloud.net. This is an excellent article, however it only covers View 4.0.x. In View 5.0 there is no locked.properties file in View 5.0, only config.properties and settings.properties. The article above recommends changing the entry “serverPort=xx” in locked.properties however there is no entry for this in either of these files. Hmmmm what to do… In the example below […]
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VMware vTash team – Support for Prostate Cancer
Some of you who follow twitter may have seen or heard about #vTash. During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. At VMware we have setup a VMware vTash team to all grow Moustaches and help promote the awareness. If anyone would like to sponsor me or the VMware vTash team, please follow this link http://mobro.co/vmware-vtash. There will be daily pictures uploaded to see how my vTash is coming along, and anyone attending the UKVMUG will get to see this in person 🙂 Here is me today on day 1. I actually had a bit of a head start and kept my growth from the week before 🙂 Day 2 […]
VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 2 released
Just noticed that vSphere 4.1 Update 2 was released yesterday. Excerpt from the release notes: Whats New Support for new processors – ESXi 4.1 Update 2 supports AMD Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) and AMD Opteron 4200 series (Valencia). Support for additional guest operating system – ESX 4.1 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 11.10 guest operating system. For a complete list of guest operating systems supported with this release. To read the full release notes click here
VMworld Europe 2011 – Some pictures
I thought I would share some of the pictures from VMworld 2011, that I took, and also have been shared on Facebook and twitter.
Dutch vMaffia fight caught on camera @ VMworld
Some of you may have heard about the Dutch vMaffia, which being an honorary Dutch Man I am a member of. Unfortunately a fight broke out today at VMworld, but people need to realise they cannot over throw us. They even brought there heavyweight to beat us Mr Muscles (aka Monster VM). Follow the Dutch_vMaffia on Twitter Please Note: Viewer discretion is advised, this contains violent images.