After the Death of Virtual Iron acquired by Oracle, the users of Virtual Iron do have a solution to convert their VM’s to VMware format. Oracle has bought Virtual Iron to phase it out. To develop Oracle’s virtual solution with Xen. You can convert Virtual Iron Virtual machines in 2 ways: You can do cold […]
Windows XP installation as a VM – trouble to see the disk or not?
When installing Windows XP with VMware ESX 4 or higher, you might receive an error during the installation process saying that “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.” It’s because there is not a compatible disk controller driver shipped with Windows XP. What’s are the choices for you to successfully […]
Vmware HCL for ESXi 4.0 and 4.1
VMware HCL – How to be sure that my hardware is compatible to run the latest VMware ESXi 4.1? It came up recently by e-mail from one of the ESX Virtualization readers. Where to find a Hardware compatible with ESXi 4. Well not too difficult, I directed the user to VMware website where you can […]
PDF version of vSphere Quick Start Guide available
As Duncan Epping just blogged about, there is a PDF version of this small (by the format) book about VMware vSphere 4 available now from Lulu. And also, another $2.00 off with coupon code “HOHOHO” if you order in the next few days, because the offer ends Unfortunately I bought the paper version few weeks […]
Time keeping for Windows VM’s best practices
Time keeping is one of the essential in VI. Whether you are running your DC’s as a VMs or not, sooner or later you might be, so this article presents best practices for configuring time keeping in Windows Guest operating systems. There is still an older document, still valuable, with more information – see Timekeeping […]
Starwind active-active HA availability storage
Starwindsoftware with active-active High Availability SAN storage solution. Starwind active-active HA storage can be implemented as a storage SAN solution for VMware ESX or Hyper-V from Microsoft. This high availability storage solution is installed on two Windows servers 2003 for exemple, can usually insure that the data won’t get lost in case of one server […]
Multiple update VMware Tools how-to
Update your VMware tools in multiple Virtual Machines. If you looking to find a way to update vmware tools multiple VMss in your datacenter, you might want to have a look a following picture which explains that in 3 easy steps: Here is the step-by-step to update vmware tools multiple vms 01. Select your host where your […]
Revisiting the DRS cluster with vSphere 4 video learning course
Revisiting DRS video from Train Signal learning course for vSphere 4 UPDATE: there is an additional course available called vSphere Pro Training vol.1 , which will teach you VMware View, Thinapp, and Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed switches… Purchased together you save 100$. See on this post. I wanted to revisit the videos from Trainsignal’s vSphere […]
Jumbo frames are supported only on VMxnet 3 and enhanced VMxnet
VMXNET and VMXNET3 are the only adapters that works with Jumbo Frames. If you trying to configure and use Jumbo frames to optimize your VI infrastructure, you should only use vmxnet (and vmxnet3) virtual adapters for that. The other adapters seems to accept the configuration for the MTU, but they’re not actually working like they […]
Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed on Server with Xeon 5500 Nehalem processor
2008 Server with Hyper-V role installed does not like Nehalem processors? Apparently this problem is known since September… It’s been announced by Intel. Processors affected are: AAK119 (Xeon 5500), AAM123 (Xeon 3500), AAO89 (Xeon 3400), AAJ121 (Core i7-900) and AAN87 (Core i7-800, Core i5) “In an article outlining hidden strife in the processor world, Andreas […]
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