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I’ve been using the new Storage VMotion functionality fairly heavily over the last couple of months.  I have encountered a couple of significant bugs whilst using it, which have resulted in corrupted VMDK files.  Here are my two tips when using Storage VMotion, to avoid the problems I have seen:

Ensure that you have sufficient space [...]

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I’ve just uploaded version 1.2
There over a dozen corrections, updates, and a few small additions.  Many thanks to everyone who has emailed me since the last release, particularly Simon Price and Peter Vroomen.

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Here’s an old trick which works great on ESX servers (thanks to this article on Linux Journal for reminding me).  It turns your prompt different colours to highlight when you are logged in as root:
To make the prompt red when you’re running as root add this to /root/.bashrc:
PS1=”\[\e[31m\]\u@\h:\w#\[\e[m\] “
To make the prompt green when [...]

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Here is version 1.1 in all its shining glory.
I’ve made several corrections (thanks everyone), added a few extra snippets and dusted it with a sprinkling of handy tips and tricks.
The biggest change is a small 3i section. I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I haven’t had a chance to play [...]

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I’ve made a couple of corrections, so please go and grab the update :

Correction to partition types (thanks to Arne Fokkema)
Addition of SQL express with VC 2.5 (thanks to Peter Vroomen)
Added check license site
added PROD_VC_EXPRESS
Random tidying

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