Daily research on Cisco solution 06/04/2011

Week 5 Day 3 had successfully installed vCenter server on Vmware workstation window server 2008. Solve this problem by install 64bit window server 2008 instead of 32 bit. from internet, i come across a website that said if we want to install vCenter server, the window server cannot be a domain controller but i had not test it out yet, will try out tmr to found out whether it is true. While playing with Vcenter server, i am able to add 3 host. some fact that i had found out as far, when i install a OS(XP) in a host. i disconnected that host and change it IP address, after changing the IP i connected that host back to Vcenter server but the VM(XP) does not appear in the inventory anymore, i could still see the XP file in that host, but in order to access it i had to create a new VM again and use the XP file, this result in wastage of some space as some new file are created to link the file together. I had also created a cluster but i can't add a host in it as a error msg keeping poping up when ever i try to add a new host(some thing about license not valid), not sure whether it because of the free trial that i am using. some thing i plan to test out tmr, Vmotion(live migration), cold migration, resource pool and setting alarm. will try out VMware distributed resource and VMware high availability if i can get the cluster working VMware distributed resource is to balance workload within a cluster and VMware high availability, when a host fail or down, all associted virtual machine are immediately on the other within a cluster