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Go free with VMware Go

VMware Go - start page for SMB

VMware Go… A new video from a fellow blogger and vExpert David Davis triggered this post. Since I’m “navigating” mostly in the SMB market, the informations like this are valuable to me and my customers. In this difficult economical situation where the times are tough and the Microsoft – Citrix aliance are starting finally getting [...]

ESXi 4 does not support serial and parallel ports

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There is no support for serial and parallel ports on ESXi 4 host. I was trying to connect a modem device which communicates via serial port on one of ESXi hosts at customer sites the other day. But every time when I wanted to add a serial port to my VM, which was an Windows [...]

New upgrade webpage for ESXi 4 pushes us to the right direction?

VMWARE-ESX-to-ESXi-upgrade

Or at least to the direction VMware wants us to go…. There has been a new page on VMware Website for migration from ESX 4 to ESXi 4. This clearly indicates the direction we all should go. To deploy ESXi 4 instead of ESX 4. Why and how it’s been discussed many times by many [...]

How to know where is my VM if vCenter is down?

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This info comes from my “French connection”  blogger Raphael SCHITZ at Hypervisor.fr. Since he still publishes his posts in French and because a vast majority of virtualization folks speaks NO French, I decided to re-blog this info, which I founded useful for anybody dealing with vCenter and VMware ESX . In case the vCenter goes [...]

Arkeia Free for ESXi – to backup your ESXi 4

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Free version of Arkeia Software can backup your ESXi 4 Free version up to 250Gigs. Arkeia Network Backup v 8.1 is a linux Appliance in OVF format which you can download. There is a Free version – see Wiki info and paid version. You must register for the license. There are some limitations to the [...]

VMware ESXi was created by a French guy !!!

hypervizor.fr

The origin of the project was born by a French Guy Olivier Crémel I was quite surprised when I found the info on one of the blogs I’m subscribed via RSS. If you do not know what is RSS and how smart is to use it just follow this link…. You might consider to subscribe [...]

Esxi 4 without the service console will replace the ESX 4 in a near future?

VMware ESXi 4

I’ve heard this info here and there on twitter and today Eric Sloof again came with the info. The ESX 4 Red Hat linux console will dissapear in the near future. So the only Hypervizor will become the ESXi 4. What you will lose? I did not digg deep enough in the ESXi 4 yet [...]