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Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use
Published on 16 May, 2012 at 4:26 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 203 views times | No Comments
Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test or development environments. OVF is supportet through different VMware products, like vSphere,
Zimbra 7.2 Collaboration Server Release
Published on 7 May, 2012 at 3:44 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 336 views times | No Comments
New Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.2 has been announced by VMware. Zimbra is heading slowly to the integration of Octopus and Mozy, but not in this 7.2 release yet. In this release there are some new features, some enhancements and bug fixes, and also some major system updates on which I would like to report too.
VMware vSphere Advanced Networking – New training
Published on 2 May, 2012 at 1:14 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 396 views times | No Comments
New VMware vSphere 5 training – Advanced Networking There is a new training from TrainSingal that has just been released called vSphere Advanced Networking. This training focuses on networking, and especially on those more advanced networking features which are present in vSphere 5. You’ll learn some more advanced topics from networking which you might not
5 interesting KB articles for vSphere 5
Published on 20 Apr, 2012 at 12:36 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 712 views times | 1 Comment
Small selection of VMware Kb articles, that I found useful. vSphere 5 FAQ: VMFS-5 - In this KB article you’ll see what’s changed since vSphere 4, what you’ll get if you upgrade and how to proceed with the upgrade. Also you’ll learn why switch to VMFS-5, how to troubleshoot the upgrades and how to check the VMFS-5 partition
How to update vSphere 5 to vSphere 5 U1 using the vSphere update manager
Published on 21 Mar, 2012 at 11:17 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 1,903 views times | 4 Comments
Step by step of the upgrade process for ESXi 5 to ESXi 5 U1 using vSphere update manager. Few days back I reported on that VMware has released an Update 1 of vSphere 5. This release is mainly fixing some issues found in the vSphere 5, but also brings some additional features and renforces the
Cannot register virtual machine template
Published on 15 Mar, 2012 at 3:40 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 182 views times | No Comments
A general system occured: the system returned an error. communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted. You might see this message when registering Virtual machine template and your vCenter reports an error like that. A quick search pointed me to the solution. In fact the VM template has been created originally and configured
Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008R2 VM when vCenter Installed
Published on 6 Mar, 2012 at 6:24 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 551 views times | 3 Comments
Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008 R2 Virtual Machine with ADAM installed. If you’re running VMware vCenter as a VM, you might experience the following problem when backing up. The VM cannot be backed up with any backup software, because the backup software can’t take a quiesced snapshot of the VM. In VDR you’ll be
Playing with Embotics V-Commander live demo
Published on 1 Mar, 2012 at 12:29 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 180 views times | No Comments
I tried Embotic’s V-Commander Live Demo Online. Want to play quickly with V-Commander live Online in let’s say ……. 15 seconds? Read on. As you might already noticed, my sidebar on the right hand side “grew” a bit and so there is another partner supporting ESX Virtualization website. The name of the partner is Embotics. Canadian
ESXi 5 Free – what’s the limitations?
Published on 17 Feb, 2012 at 5:43 in Server Virtualization | Viewed 5,108 views times | 4 Comments
What’s the limitations of the ESXi 5 Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 5, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to clear this out. What’s the
