Expanding Windows 7 virtual hard drive. Quick how-to, real easy to do. You need no tools to achieve this. You just need a copy of VMware Workstation. When you run into a situation that you under-estimated your prevision for your Virtual Machine Disk size. You installed lot’s of software and you became running out of […]
Thin provisioning how could you live without it?
If you just starting with VMware Virtualization and want to learn some new features comming with vSphere 4 just read on. Thin provisioning feature which comes with vSphere 4 is cool enough to talk about . Actually I’m even asking myself how come that I could live without it? Thin provisioning can save you a […]
Free online video learning courses for VMware Workstation users
With the recent release of the new version of VMware Workstation 7, there is a new offer for a free online multimedia training on VMware’s Website. You can watch free videos on you own pace. There are 3 modules you can follow. Module 1: VMware Workstation Overview Module 2: Getting Started with Workstation Module 3: […]
You can really play now with VMware Workstation 7
The coolest new feature of VMware workstation 7 is… Of course to run ESX 4 server as a VM…. Some screenshots here. Now you can fully leverage the possibility to configure and run up to 10 NICs on your virtual ESX 4 …!!! This ans many more feeatures in the new VMware Workstation 7. Upgrade […]
Using tasks, events and alarms in vCenter
Today I watched a video from the second DVD of the new Trainsignal’s vSphere 4 learning course. In this video David Davis explained to me what for are tasks, scheduled tasks, how to use them. Really cool stuff. I did not know that the configuration of SNNP inside vCenter was so easy…. Still inside of […]
Veeam Backup and recovery – Changed block tracking and vSphere API
Veeam Backup and recovery was during the last week in the center of tweets and forum posts. The announced new version of VEEAM backup I already talked about in my blog post few weeks ago has finally arrived. What makes VEEAM so desired by all the virtual community? What’s hot? Earlier this year the 3.1 […]
“Error unable to access a file since it is locked” – how did I do to save my day
I had this error in my lab when I was trying to power on a virtual machine with Exchange 2007 installed in it. It’s a testing VM. Since It’s testing VM I did not keep any backup for this VM. I might should….. -:( But then… what to do? I had two options: 01. Google […]
How-to enable PvSCSI and when
VMware Paravirtualized SCSI (PVSCSI driver) Introduced with vSphere 4 this driver can speed up and offload CPU. VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter is able to achieve 12% more throughput with 18% less CPU cost compared to the LSI virtual adapter. vSphere ships with this new high-performance virtual storage adapter. Bus logic and LSI logic were […]
Wish list of features for VMware Data Recovery
VMware DATA Recovery (VDR) is great product with relatively simple usage. You could follow through my posts the Installation and configuration, Backup, Recovery and File Level Restore. There are also a step-by-step videos in those posts. But as a user I saw that other users are having little difficulties to use the FLR restore utility […]
Use gravatar – It’s free…
Many blogs runs under WordPress, best blogging platform today. The gravatar support is native in WordPress. Just create your profile at Gravatar and add a Image. It makes the comment section just more sexy !! I’m writing about this because Eric Gray from vCritical has pointed this out. For me it’s obvious but for the […]
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