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Free Performance Monitoring tool for ESX Server – VM Monitor from Solarwinds

Written on 27 Oct, 2008 at 6:56 in Server Virtualization | viewed 2,234 views times | 0 Comments
Free Performance Monitoring tool for ESX Server - VM Monitor from Solarwinds

Monitoring Solution for your ESX Server – for free Solarwinds is well know company for their subnet calculator. Today I’d like to present your a free toll from Solarwinds called VM Monitor With this free software you are going to be able... (Continue reading)

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How to increase ESX Server performance optimizing few things that you know about but….

Written on 25 Oct, 2008 at 8:18 in Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization | viewed 4,007 views times | 0 Comments
How to increase ESX Server performance optimizing few things that you know about but....

How to optimize the performance of your ESX Server and your VMs With more and more Virtual machines Running inside of your ESX Server Box you soon find yourself trying to increase the overall performance of your guest VM. You must... (Continue reading)

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Use this free tool to verify the version of the VMware Tools

Written on 23 Oct, 2008 at 8:15 in Server Virtualization | viewed 889 views times | 3 Comments
Use this free tool to verify the version of the VMware Tools

New version of RVTools is available. Rob de Veij put a new version of his very popular free software – RVTools. This nice little tool gathers the informations from your Virtual Machine’s VMware tools. You just connect to your ESX host... (Continue reading)

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Mounting your VMDK disks directly to your windows box – how to

Written on 19 Oct, 2008 at 10:24 in Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization | viewed 17,779 views times | 2 Comments
Mounting your VMDK disks directly to your windows box - how to

How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface with a little software called VMware... (Continue reading)

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How-to prevent downloading the VI client for your lan users

Written on 18 Oct, 2008 at 13:09 in Server Virtualization | viewed 773 views times | 0 Comments
How-to prevent downloading the VI client for your lan users

You already know that you can download the VI client via your web browser, but you don’t know that you also can prevent to appear the link for downloading the client to your clients. Oh yes. Your cliens do not... (Continue reading)

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VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.

Written on 17 Oct, 2008 at 13:06 in Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization | viewed 3,932 views times | 2 Comments

Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of... (Continue reading)

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How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5

Written on 16 Oct, 2008 at 9:45 in Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization | viewed 3,688 views times | 0 Comments

With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power... (Continue reading)

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Are you serious admin of VMware ESX? Then you’ll need PowerGUI

Written on 13 Oct, 2008 at 3:36 in Server Virtualization, Videos | viewed 3,278 views times | 0 Comments
Are you serious admin of VMware ESX? Then you'll need PowerGUI

Great video about using PowerGUI. Another Must-Have to manage your VMware ESX server…. Check out this video that Carter Shanklin from VMware has put online. This video cames from VMworld 2008 but not everyone can afford to pay the trip….This video... (Continue reading)

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How to use free Quick migration script for VMware ESX

Written on 12 Oct, 2008 at 2:03 in Server Virtualization | viewed 2,534 views times | 1 Comment
How to use free Quick migration script for VMware ESX

Quick Migration is a free feature which came from Microsoft’s Hyper-V. VMware has VMotion but only in the Entreprise License. Which is quite costly for most small businesses. So one great guy find a nice way to make the same... (Continue reading)

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