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How to build a low cost NAS for VMware Lab – introduction

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Some words about how the project started. During the past several days/weeks I’ve been thinking of upgrading my home lab. It’s something that can be costly, especially when you start from zero. I started last year with one multi usage box running VMware Workstation and running ESXi as a VM, with adding some SSD drives […]

Veeam Backup 5.0.2 supports backup of Exchange 2010 SP1

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Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0.2 released. New version of Veeam backup and Replication has been released few days ago. Maintenance release only which fixes some bugs, but there are some new features introduced too. First of all, you are now able to evolve (if it’s your case) to Exchange 2010 with SP1, because it’s now […]

My ESXi 4 Whitebox

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My One (at the moment) ESXi 4.1 whitebox runs with some SATA and SSD drives. UPDATE: You can access directly my ESXi Homelab Page Here. I’m preparing a series of articles about the evolution of my homelab, but I just realized that I haven’t blogged about my actual setup. I evolved with my home lab […]

How to balance VMware Performance and Capacity – video

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17 min of video discussing the balance between performance and capacity. In this video Bryan Semple from vKernel discuss about performance and capacity. The video is quite long – 17 minutes. What’s important and what’s not. The video has been done in Toronto VMUG and the interaction with the users is very interesting since they […]

VMware Workstation 7.1.4 released

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New Update of VMware Workstation has been released – it’s the version 7.1.4 and it adds W7 SP1 and Ubuntu 10.10 support. The new VMware Workstation 7.1.4 is available.  This is a maintenance release only that fix known issues. The new features and fixes: – Windows 7 SP1 and Ubuntu 10.10 support for guest and […]

20% and 25 % Discount on VMware Workstation and Fusion 3.1

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You can get 20% discount for VMware Workstation and 25% discount for VMware Fusion 3.1 by using coupon codes below. Please note that the codes might not be active when I publish this post. In this case, come back later (or the next day). Enjoy… Save 20% on VMware Workstation 7.1! Offer Expires: 1st of […]

Presenting 2 Free Tools from Solarwinds for VMware Infrastructure admins

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VMware Admins has got another choice for free monitoring of ESX(i) hosts and managing them. First of all, I’d like to welcome Solarwinds as a new sponsor for my ESX Virtualization MAG website. If you’re not a regular reader, consider subscribing by Google Reader (or other RSS reader), because with the daily website updates you […]

Not enough physical memory after installing W7 SP1 VMware Workstation error

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When you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 you might end up with an error while starting a VM. Those issues might appear not only on Windows 7 but also on Windows 2008R2 after installing SP1. After installing Windows 7 SP1 on you PC, you might experience those issues in VMware Workstation: Your virtual machine […]

New product from Xangati called VDI dashboard

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Xangati VDI dashboard has been released. Real time monitoring with Xangati for ESX gives you the drill down possibility to look and find which part of your virtual infrastructure is suffering from slowdowns and for which reason. Xangati now goes even further and announcing a new product called Xangati VDI dashboard. As you can see […]