Some great news today – The new vSphere Pro Video Training is Available. There is new video learning course available from TrainSignal. It’s completely new Professional Video Training course which is focusing on some advanced management techniques via Power CLI for VMware vSphere 4 and also some deep diving into PowerShell some other Vmware products […]
You know how to collect diag information when your ESXi does PSOD?
Find out more in logs concerning PSOD. Way back I explained in my post that exists several ways to collect logs from vCenter Server and send those crucial informations to vmware support to check out. This time I saw a VMware KB article explaining how to collect logs from a ESXi server doing PSOD (purple […]
Best practices for using VMware Converter
Some best practices using VMware Converter. New video from VMware KB website. This time it’s about using VMware converter. To master VMware converter permits you sometimes to save your day too ….. ( had an Error unable to access a file since it is locked” ). This video provides an overview of the best practices for converting […]
Free RDP plug-in to manage your Virtual Infrastructure running under vSphere 4
Free tool from Xtravirt – RDP connection Plug-in. Xtravirt is know from the past providing great PDF tutorials for configuring VMware workstation to be able to run ESX Server as a nested VM. (Fyi This step is no longer necessary in VMware Workstaion 7). Or providing little script to download all PDF’s from VMware website […]
Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads
Do I choose the PVSCSI or LSI Logic virtual adapter on ESX 4.0 for non-IO intensive workloads? I thought that the question about using or not VMware Paravirtual adapter was solved with the vSphere 4 Update 1 and the announce that VMware has officialy support PVSCSI on boot disks. For me it was clear that I […]
NTLDR missing – silly but can happend
This might happen if you have a floppy attached to your VM. Sometimes, when you forget to un-attach a floppy drive from a VM, you might experience this error message. Windows does not boot You see the error: NTLDR is missing Well, to get your VM work again, just make sure that the SCSI driver […]
Free tool for Partitionning VMs !
There is a new free tool available from Paragon Software. If you played already with Partition Magic in the past or Acronis Disk director, you know that those tools are not free… But this one is. At least for first 5000 downloads… 👿 Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s […]
How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files and disable shrinking
Sometimes you just want to disable shrinking of VMdk for certain VMs. How do you do that? Before you get started you should know that, if this is done repeatedly, the virtual disk can become unavailable, effectively causing a denial of service. so In most datacenter environments, disk shrinking – no. So you can disable this […]
SSD’s will transform the way we think of hard disks
SSD (Solid State Disk) – it’ll become a mainstream in 2010. At the moment I’m re-thinking my home lab. I’d like to put everything in One box and make Ultimate One Box Solution (UOBS). 😎 That means, having a lab where whould be possible to simulate all VMware Solutions, train people (if necessary). Question Efficiency, […]
Do you want to see a little magic?
VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 295
- 296
- 297
- 298
- 299
- …
- 316
- Next Page »