Installation personalized of VMware Tools. As I wrote in my previous article, sometimes when you’re using third parties backup agents which installs itself inside of the VM (cause of Symantec BE 2010) there is a need for not installing the full package of vmware tools. You can proceed with a personalized install of VMware tools […]
Troubleshoot virtual machine VSS snapshot
VSS providers conflicts. In case you’re using Symantec BackupExec 2010 as a backup solution for your Virtual Infrastructure running Vmware vSphere 4, you might be founding yourself in curious situations when your backup jobs might finish right (but sometimes not). By digging deep inside of log files together with Symantec support, we found an issue […]
Manual Download of VMware Tools from VMware Website
Manual Download of VMware Tools. Here is the URL you need to know, in case you want to download VMware tools manually. VMware tools differ for each specific OS. You can if you want to store all those VM tools packages on your network share for later usage. In this remote location, you’ll find the VMware […]
How to change virtual SCSI controler for VMware PVSCSI
Change virtual SCSI controller to VMware PVSCSI. This KB on VMware KB website explaining the step by step for when you want to change from one virtual SCSI controller into another one on your VM. At first, you can try to directly change the type of your disk, but most likely, if it’s a bootable disk, […]
Watch out when upgrading your Workstation if you’re using Linked clones
Using Linked Clones in VMware Workstation. Few weeks back I had a surprise. As you know, there has been a new release of VMware Workstation 7.1 which brought in new feature and also new release of VMware tools was available. So the update of all your VMs created by the previous release of Workstation was […]
New nice feature in Workstation 7.1
Adjust you VM’s memory in Workstation 7.1 easier. New feature which appeared in VMware workstation and which makes easier to adjust the amount of Memory allocated to the VM. Since anyone has really blogged about I said myself that It could be interresting to bring it up. There are small squares which indicates The minimum […]
Integrity check with details in VDR 1.2
Detailed Informations about Integrity scan. This is a quick follow up post after explaining how to initiate a manual integrity check in VMware Data Recovery – backup solution provided with vSphere Essentials Plus package. In my last article I showed you that sometimes you have to initiate the manual integrity check to correct an error […]
New Exchange 2010 training released by TrainSignal
Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2007 and new training from Trainsignal for Exchange 2010. While there has been a new release of Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2007, which makes possible to install Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2, there is also SP1 for Exchange 2010 in preparation. Exchange 2007 SP3 includes some Active […]
Hyper-V versus vSphere Snapshots, and why not use snapshots as a backup solution
The way snapshots works are not the same on both hypervizors. Snapshots “made by hyper-v”, called Checkpoints, work a bit different way than the snapshots in VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere snapshots work differently. Administrator managing Hyper-V not being aware that the checkpoints are merged only when the VM is powered down, could find himself short on […]
New feature in upcomming vSphere 4.1 – SIOC
Storage Input Output Control. One of the major improvements in the upcoming vSphere 4.1 is certainly the new storage IO control. (SIOC). With SIOC activated you can define QoS prioritization for the I/O activity on a single host or a cluster of hosts. Activating SIOC on your datastore, you’re able to prevent an individual VM […]
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