AVG rescue CD from Grisoft. Czech company AVG is well known for their antivirus/antispyware solutions. Besides the Free Antivirus solution they provide as an installable version – The AVG 9 Free, there is another tool. It’s an ISO image you can burn to a CD and scan and clean your computer before your Operating system […]
Use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V
Use P2V with VMware Workstation 7 Instead using Vmware Converter standalone client you can use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V. There might be even some advantages. For exemple you might be on the road, at the client’s site, and you want to show to your client that his server is virtualizable and directly do a […]
Free disaster recovery and P2V with Clonezilla
What is Clonezilla? Like filezilla – a very popular opensource FTP client and server applications, Clonezilla is a free software which I’ll test sonner or later…and which can P2V your physical server into virtual environement running under VMware vSphere 4 for exemple…. Clonezilla helps you to to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are […]
Troubleshooting Fault Tolerance in vSphere
VMware Fault Tolerance questions. Great doc released through VMware KB I just discovered about explaining all about Fault Tolerance and also how to troubleshoot the error messages when you try to activate this feature. In this KB you’ll find how to troubleshoot, when to activate, when the option is available and when it’s grayed out… […]
Veeam’s secret weapon – SureBackup
SureBackup – a revolution for backups of Virtual Infrastructure. I assisted at the bloggers meeting last night with Doug Hazelman from VEEAM Software. Doug had already did a pre-post on Veeam company’s blog veeammeup.com where he did not showed any new information, but only analyst’s reactions. The announcement has been done officially today on Veeam’s […]
My first tests of Kingston SSD drive
Taking Kingston for a spin… In my first test for the SSD drive I bought recently I wanted to do a compare to SATA drives. In my test I’m using VMware Workstation 7 and a VM placed on the SSD drive at first. Then I’ll move this VM to a SATA drive and see what’s […]
Testing Eric Sloof’s vmClient
New lightweight tool created by Eric Sloof. Eric Sloof’s blog was one of the first I started to follow in my early days when I was just starting to learn about Virtual Infrastructure. Before that I was more into physical hardware, played a lot with VMware Workstation and Virtual PC to learn stuff. But times […]
Technical support escalation explained
What is technical support escalation? With VMware you have a support for your desktop or server virtualization products. But after submitting a support request, you can also request an escalation. What’ts this? Escalation can be Service Based or product based. Service based can be asked for in a case for example that a when: impact […]
How to register License key for a desktop products
This kb article I found explains the basics. What do you need to do for registering license for a desktop product bought at VMware. If you don’t you might not be able to come back and get updates for your products. 1. Navigate to the VMware Account Management page by going to www.vmware.com/account. 2. Log […]
Adding second service console via CLI
Service Console commands. In the last series I explained how to change the IP address of the Service console (SC), which is an interface called vswif . You can see all the configured vswif interfaces with this command: esxcfg-vswif -l Normaly the first SC is vswif0. Before adding second SC we will first create a […]
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