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Starwind V2V Converter – easily convert your VMs from VHD to VMDK

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StarWind V2V Converter helps you to convert VHD to VMDK and vice versa. So if You are Hyper-V or Virtual PC user you can convert your virtual hard disks to VMware VMDK format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image, but creates […]

How-to install ESXi 4.0 on USB memory Key

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Update: You should really check the latest post on How to create bootable VMware ESXi 5 U1 by using VMware Player for Free – It’s the fastest and easiest method to create bootable USB memory stick with the latest Free VMware ESXi 5 U1 hypervisor. Written in the past (some time ago…) , I published […]

New books about vSphere 4 are here and others are comming

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Need to master new vSphere 4? How about buying a book? I’m really supprised that number of books about the new vSphere 4 are already available (or possible to command at least). VMware vSphere 4 was released just few feeks ago and many new books are already in stores. 01. Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (For […]

Convert any Windows server in a free SAN for your ESX/vSphere lab

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In case you are not using free Openfiler under Linux for your VMware ESX Server/vSphere 4 homelab (if you don’t like linux for example…) there is a solution for you. A company called StarWind is providing for free a Software allowing to create an iSCSI Target for your VMware Infrastructure (up to 2 Tb capcity […]

30% Greater Consolidation in vSphere 4

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vSphere 4 offers 30 % greater consolidation. If in your existing ESX Server infrastructure you were able to achive some consolidation ratios. Then if you’re going for the vSphere this year you’ll be able to gain 30% more consolidation ratio….. … So if you’re an existing customer today and you have a 100 host deployment […]

Cisco Nexus 1000V is a part of vSphere Entreprise Plus

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The vNetwork Distributed Switch is present in vSphere 4. The Nexus 1000V is a pure software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch. Cisco Nexus 1000V integrates with VMware vSphere to deliver VN-Link, virtual machine-aware network services. The Nexus 1000V is part of the Enterprise Plus bundle and available to all VMware resellers and distributors, even […]

How to create snapshot in another location then the VM’s folder

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Snaphot of your VM’s in Different Location. By default, the snapshot of your VM’s are created in the same folder where the VM exist. Sometimes you need to create a snapshot elsewhere. Why? – There is not enough space on VMFS volume… – You are not able to power on a VM because this one […]

Moving ESX host from one Virtual Center to another

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How to register an ESX Server host in a Virtual Center? Sometimes you need to move an ESX Server host into another vCenter Management Server. To move an ESX host from one Virtual Center to another, you must remove the host from Virtual Center first , then  add the host to a new VirtualCenter. It […]

VMware Cold Clone to convert your physical machines, where to get it?

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Where to download VMware Cold Clone Converter ISO? This is something users were wondering as VMware no longer provides the product in direct link download or if yes, it’s buried somewhere on the VMware site. Update: You can find this tool on my VMware Free Tools page. I’ve added a direct download link from my […]

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