How to Calculate VMware failover capacity

If you are getting insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover messages, check this article out on why and how to fix it. The way they calculate resources is kind of wack.

http://www.vmwarewolf.com/ha-failover-capacity/

VMware converter with Windows Server 2008 R2

If you try to use vmconverter to import a VM from another virtual center you probably have seen the "unable to determine guest operating system" error.

There is an easy workaround. Change the OS on the VM that you are going to import to Windows 2008 64 BIT. Run the import. Then change it back after the import.

NTP on ESX

I use this document so much that I figured I would post a link to it. I always seem to have issues with my ESX servers losing their time sync via NTP. Here is how to set it up correctly (it will still break) and how to fix it.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1339