Use VMware Update Manager for patching of your Virtual Infrastructure. This is done by using a special patching network for suspended or offline systems. Yes the VMs which are stopped are scanned and patched as well! That’s simply amazing. I thought that VMware Update Manager was just some kind of better WSUS like direcly integrated […]
Data recovery – new GUI backup tool present in vSphere 4
VMware Data Recovery (VDR) – a GUI tool now. The VMware Data Recovery is an Agent-less disk based backup and recovery solution. Data Recovery can backup/restore your VMs or file level restores of Windows or Linux guess OS. The principal features of VMware Data Recovery are: – Disk-based backup and recovery to enable fast backup/restoration […]
VMware Data Recovery Demo video
With vSphere there is also new backup program called Data Recovery. There is a quite a lot of new information coming from VMware since the lauch of vSphere. So what Data Recovery is? How it’s works? It is a disk-based backup and recovery solution. Easy to install, because VMware Data Recovery is a virtual machine […]
vNetwork Distributed Switch – new feature of vSphere 4
One would have to live under the rock not knowing Eric Sloof.… Eric is VMware Certified Instructor and great blogger who do not hesitate to post as often as possible to keep us updated with great news and how-to’s. He is one of my favorite bloggers… -:) In one of his latest posts he is […]
Thin provisionning, what? Save diskspace with ESX and vSphere, oh yes…
I was always very happy with one of the features present in VMware Workstation since few years now. Actually you are able to specify in VMware Workstation when you configure new virtual disk how big the disk will be. But when you specify for example 50 Gigs virtual disk inside Workstation , the disks real […]
You have to have 64 bit hardware for vSphere
The new version of VMware ESX (vSphere 4) will run only on 64-bit CPUs hardware . Mostly the new processors arround are either 32- or 64-bit. Today almost all enterprise servers manufactured today have 64-bit CPUs but you might want to check some of your older servers if they are 64 bits capable or not… […]
How to restart management agents on ESXi host
When you are not able to connect ESXi server to vCenter, or when you cannot connect to ESXi server from VI client it may be necessary to restart the management agents on ESXi host. In today’s post called How to restart management agents on ESXi host we will learn this. Sometimes you have errors when […]
Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation
I’m running a VMware Workstation on Vista x64 bits with 2 partitions (c: – system and d: – DATA). Always when I wanted to create a new virtual machine on my VMware Workstation, I had to navigate through all the folders on my c: drive to finally create a folder on a D: drive where […]
Critical Patch for ESX. Download now
Just for your information, there is a critical patch for ESX to download here. Good news, you don’t need to restart your ESX server. This is a critical patch, so you should run it, after testing, as soon as possible in your infrastructure, as this patch is critical. You can have a look here. KB1009852 […]
How to change IP address of your ESX Server
There is a time when you need to change the IP adress your ESX host. You can’t do it in the VI client Graphical User Interface. The only thing you can do is to go to the ESX server console. 1.) First of all , you must have physical access to the console. 2.) Put […]
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