This is the part 2 of How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs. With this how-to, I will show you how-to convert the Image file created using BESR for imaging of your VM into VHD or VMDK. In this procedure, you’ll see the conversion into the VHD file but you can do exactly the […]
How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VM – Part 1
V2V Virtual to physical with Symantec. In this article, I’m gonna show you that is possible to use Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery to successfully convert your VMs either into VMware (VMDK) or into Virtual PC (VHD) format. The advantage of using BESR is that you can also use the image of your VM to do […]
How-to root access VMware ESX Server from WinSCP, Putty and others…
How-to root access VMware ESX Server When you first install VMWare ESX Server you don’t have the root account SSH acces. VMWare ESX 3 security restricts SSH access by the root user account by default. This means that the root account is denied access when using Putty, WinSCP or similar SSH applications. To remove this […]
How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5
How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5 I’m quite enjoying making those videos. I find that using videos is much more direct than to do a long article. So this time I’m going to show you a video about the installation of ESXi server inside of VMware Workstation. The workstation is actually […]
Installation ESX Server inside of VMWare Workstation 6.5
UPDATE: Just check my post showing the installation of ESXi 5 insisde of VMware Workstation. I did one of my first videos. In this video you’ll see that it is possible to install and manage ESX Server even without appropriate hardware. The installation of ESX was possible on a laptop from Fujitsu-Siemes with 4GB of RAM […]
How to change root password on ESX server
How to change root password on ESX server. What to do if you forgot (or misstype) your administrator password? You have to have an access directly to the ESX server with a monitor. Then if you want to change the password, you can follow this procedure: 1. Hard reboot ESX server. So first shutdown all your […]
How to convert a physical server using VMware converter.
This is my first video. As you can see this website’s title, the main subject will be the virtualization. I’m gonna show you how to convert a physical server, or computer, which does not has to be a server, into a VMWare ESX server. The tool I’m gonna be using in this video is called […]