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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ESXi – the past, the present and the future
The ESXi – COS less future of tomorrow? ESXi 4 is now The Hypervizor being the most promoted by VMware. The version of ESX Server without the Linux Red Hat service console. Sure, this is an obvious advantage of such a hypervizor. Reduced surface attack, reduced patching, cooling and reduced energy needed to run (in it’s […]
VMware Fusion 3 on MAC running Flip3D
VMware Fusion 3 video. VMware Fusion 3 for Mac has better 3D support, which enables Aero under Windows Vista and Windows 7. In this little video I found on YouTube. Also you’ll see unity mode. What is it? Unity mode just hides the VMware Fusion 3 principal window and makes your windows applications appear as […]
How to collect log information from vCenter Server 4
How to collect logs from vCenter Server? Sometimes when you’re in trouble, you need to go and generate the diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Server 4.0. I was wondering where and how, just until when I stumbled on this KB article on VMware KB website. The article explains that to generate the vCenter 4 logs, […]
How to know where is my VM if vCenter is down?
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 […]
Use VMware Converter to import 3rd party VMs, for example Virtual Iron’s VMs
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 […]
Windows XP installation as a VM – trouble to see the disk or not?
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 […]
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