Some best guidelines for VMware Converter 5 in order to avoid known issues. At first, VMware Converter 5 is a software which permits you to convert physical server (or PC) into Virtual Machine. This magical piece of this free software can at the same time align properly the destination VM’s virtual disks in order to get […]
New benchmarking tool for VDI performance troubleshooting
Login consultants has released new version of benchmarking tool for VDI -Virtual Session Indexer 3.5 The Login ‘Virtual Session Indexer’ tool is a platform independent, ‘turn-key’ performance measurement solution. You’re able to test performance VDI sessions, by simulating a real workload of office workers, but not only. The solutions comes in two editions. Free and […]
VMware Private Cloud Computing- a new book
New book in preorder at Amazon. This new book written by Simon Gallagher, who is a creator of vTARDIS system. vTARDIS is basically a Single -box-server running nested ESXi hypervisors. The goal of such configuration is learning. Learning vSphere infrastructure, learning networking when you’re on a budget. Simon got awarded last year at VMworld Europe […]
Migrate VMs with snapshots – Yes, in vSphere 5
In vSphere 5 you can migrate VM with snapshots – it’s supported. I had this question through an e-mail, from one of my readers and so I thought that I’d share it… In previous versions of vSphere and ESX, (ESX/ESXi3.x and ESX/ESXi4), one had to delete snapshots before migrating a VM into another location. In vSphere […]
SvSAN by Stormagic is VMware Ready for vSphere 5
Another VMware ready Virtual Appliance leveraging DAS (direct attached storage). SvSAN leverages the local disks of each of ESX/ESXi server to create a shared storage pool which is presented to each of those ESX(i) server hosts. This basically makes a creation of a HA cluster much cheaper then one would normally do with a dedicated […]
VMware Flings Site – where the Free VMware treasures are
VMware Flings Site with new Fling – ESX System Analyzer If you need to migrate ESX to ESXi some tools can be handy. Oh there are tools for that? Yes, they call them Flings… -:). Can be found at https://labs.vmware.com/flings The tool analyzes your existing ESX environment and shows you basically what needs to be […]
How Murphy’s law affected my blog
Be ready or …. This is a very personal post. First of all, my dear readers, I’d like to inform you that my blog was victim of a hack. You might be wondering in the past few days that my website did not responded or showed an error. Yes, this happens not only to banks […]
Which ESX/ESXi/vCenter builds corresponds to which update levels
Host Build numbers vs Update levels. In this KB article from VMware you can easily find the correlation between the build numbers and update levels. For example you want to know which was the build number of ESXi 4.0 U1, you’ll be able to find it in the table provided in this KB article from […]
VMware Data Recovery 2.0 – the upgrade process from earlier version
How to upgrade from VDR 1.2? The new VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (VDR) has been released together with the release of vSphere 5 – VMware vSphere 5 available for download – and since there is quite a few upgrades planned ahead, it might be handy to have it written/bookmarked on my website as well. The upgrade process […]
Start-up several VMs one after another – VMware Workstation Tip
Want to start-up several VMs one after another? Read on. The new version of VMware Workstation has dropped Teams functionality. By using the Teams, one could configure the delay, when each VM in that team started after the previous one. I posted about the teams functionality in my article here. But the feature of powering on […]
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