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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 […]

ESX Virtualization channel on YouTube

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Yes I’m a video producer… With the easy way of having my free YouTube channel I did not resist and created a video channel for my videos and some screen video captures too. Also few months back I bought a small digital camera Toshiba Camileo S10 which can record 1440×1080 videos. Which is remarkable for […]

Use VMware Converter to import 3rd party VMs, for example Virtual Iron’s VMs

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After the Death of Virtual Iron acquired by Oracle, the users of Virtual Iron do have a solution to convert their VM’s to VMware format. Oracle has bought Virtual Iron to phase it out. To develop Oracle’s virtual solution with Xen. You can convert Virtual Iron Virtual machines in 2 ways: You can do cold […]

Error when VM disks have incorrect changed block tracking configuration

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How-to correct the incorrect changed block tracking configuration error. Apparently, there can be a case when you are running your backups using CBT (changed block tracking) feature of vSphere 4, you might gen an error saying that: Disk “Hard disk 1” has incorrect changed block tracking configuration. It means that one or more VM disks […]

Windows XP installation as a VM – trouble to see the disk or not?

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When installing Windows XP with VMware ESX 4 or higher, you might receive an error during the installation process saying that “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.” It’s because there is not a compatible disk controller driver shipped with Windows XP. What’s are the choices for you to successfully […]

Arkeia Backup Appliance setup

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I wanted to try to setup another backup solution using CBT (changed block tracking) I talked recently. It’s Arkeia Backup. With the solution I’ll be showing you, you’ll have a possibility to backup for free up to 250 Gb of data. Update: It’s not been tested by me (for now) that this solution works with […]

How-to enable Thin Print in VMware Workstation 7

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My exploration of ThinPrint in VMware Workstation 7. With the latest version of  VMware Workstation 7, there is one cool feature called Thin Print. The feature I explained in this blog post together with other new functionalities. The question is How-to enable this feature? Because it’s not enabled by default… I’ve done this test on […]

Vmware Workstation 7 new features – Import Windows 7 XP mode VM

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Importing VM created with Windows 7 XP mode into VMware Workstation 7. The new features of VMware Workstation had been presented on this website already. Last time I walked you through the setup of Windows 7 XP mode, which is a Windows 7 new functionality… The Virtual PC is used to install Windows XP virtual […]

PDF version of vSphere Quick Start Guide available

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As Duncan Epping just blogged about, there is a PDF version of this small (by the format) book about VMware vSphere 4 available now from Lulu. And also, another $2.00 off with coupon code “HOHOHO” if you order in the next few days, because the offer ends Unfortunately I bought the paper version few weeks […]