Checking if the ISO is loaded. Sometimes you have a Windows VM with autostart for a CD drive disabled. In this case the VMware tools installation does not start automatically. You can run into 2 different situations. Case 1: The Vmware tools installer does not start: 01 – Click Start > Run from the inside […]
How to Enable Copy paste between VMware vSphere Client and a VM in vSphere 4.1 and higher
Enable the clipboard copy and paste functionality in vSphere 4.1 and later versions. The security has been tightened in vSphere 4.1, so that’s why by default if you install vSphere 4.1 or if you upgrade your vSphere 4.0 installation, you can’t copy paste between the VI client and the VMs running in your vSphere environment. You […]
Load ballanced teaming
Load ballanced teaming was introduced in vSphere 4.1. The load ballanced teaming policy is available in vSphere 4.1 when used in combination with vDS only. vDS stays for vNetwork Distributed Switch. So the option is not only available in the SMBs editions vSphere, like the vSphere Essentials or vSphere Essentials Plus, but also it’s not […]
VMark 2.0 released
Free benchmarking software from VMware – VMark 2.0 The free benchmarking software is destined for hardware vendors to be able to test the hardware for performance. It’s a multi-host virtualization benchmark software which since of the version 1.0 did evolve quite a lot. The second release of VMark can compare different virtualization platforms, which consist of […]
Review – Exchange Server 2010 Training
Review of Trainsignal’s Training course for Exchange Server 2010. My experiences with Trainsignal trainings are as for now very good since as I got the chance and I reviewed some of the VMware vSphere 4 training courses done by David Davis and other vExperts. I was not sure how the Exchange Training was gonna be. Sure, […]
How-to start SSH on your ESXi Servers remotely via PowerCLI
Here is a new video inspired by Alan Renouf’s post. Well I wanted to test Alan’s post on starting SSH service on your ESXi 4.1 host remotely via PowerCLI. And as you know, picture (video) is worth a thousand words…. I’ve done a video of that. Now, I’m not a scripting guy.. not at all. […]
Interresting KB about re-appearing the VMware tools icons in the taskbar
How to make reapear your VMware Tools Icon, in case it got lost somehow. This is a quick how-to. Really no brainer, but worth to remember. In this KB recently refreshed it’s discussed a situation when you won’t see the VMware Tools icon in the taskbar anymore. What to do? There is just this VMware […]
Free tool from Quest Software can monitor 1 vCenter Server and 250 VMs
Monitor 1 vCenter for free with vFoglight Quick View. Yes, that’s a lot. For quite some SMB customers it’s a great news, since this free tool from Quest Software can monitor up to 500 objects (250 VMs) and 1 vCenter Server. But the full product – vFoglight 6.5 can do more than that. You can […]
Interview with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions.
Double Take becomes a part of Vision Solutions. Double Take software was acquired earlier this year by Vision Solutions. I had a chance to be introduced with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions and he replied on some of my questions I asked about. @vladan. So let me introduce yourself. What’s your name and what’s your […]
Difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through
USB device device path-through is vMotion aware, not VMDirectPath. I just stumbled into this KB showing what’s the difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through. Read on if you’re not sure or you want/need to get a specific high-speed configuration with 10Gigs NIC available only for your VM (without the Virtualization […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- 145
- …
- 161
- Next Page »