Monitoring Solution for your ESX Server – for free Solarwinds is well know company for their subnet calculator. Today I’d like to present your a free toll from Solarwinds called VM Monitor With this free software you are going to be able to do: Fast check the health of your VMware ESX Server by monitoring […]
Mounting VMDK disks directly to your windows box – how to
How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface with a little software called VMware Disk Mount Utility. This utility can be downloaded from VMware. I will show you how […]
How-to prevent downloading the VI client for your lan users
Prevent downloading the VMware Infrastructure Client via the Web Browser. You already know that you can download the VI client via your web browser, but you don’t know that you also can prevent to appear the link for downloading the client to your clients. Oh yes. Your cliens do not need to see the download […]
VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.
Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of space. What to do? You can add additional drive to have another storage space, but […]
How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5
How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power your virtual machine. When you power of your […]
How to use free Quick migration script for VMware ESX
Quick Migration is a free feature which came from Microsoft’s Hyper-V. VMware has VMotion but only in the Entreprise License. Which is quite costly for most small businesses. So one great guy find a nice way to make the same feature for VMware ESX hosts. It’s a little script which is runned under Windows PowerShell […]
Free Hypervisor from Microsoft is here
Free Standalone HyperVisor called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 was released this thursday. It is a free product from Microsoft. What it looks like? It looks like the Windows 2008 server CORE installation. You will need to make quite a few steps to make this machine behave… -:). You will have to rename the machine and […]
Cool feature for ESX Server 3.5 – VM Bios Delay
One cool feature that I was wishing to have in the past is the VM Bios Delay. What is it? Nothing is more anoying that when you create new Virtual Machine and you want to boot from a CD. Before you have time to hit F2 or ESC the machine is trying other boot devices […]
How-to Mount Windows Share to the ESX Service Console
In this how-to you’ll learn that it is possible to mount a Windows folder share to the VMWare ESX Service Console. Like this you can use your windows shares as an additional storage space within your ESX Server. So in this scenario I imagine that I have one physical server running 2003 Server, and on […]
How-to convert your Acronis file Backup into virtual disk
When you are using Acronis True Image Echo Workstation (or Server) to backup and create an image file of your system, you can convert this file into Virtual Disk. You can imagine that you do your backups with Acronis on regular basics and so you can use this virtual disk in VMware ESX Server or […]