With this VMware KB you’ll found how-to configure VLANS on your vSwitches, pSwitche and VMs. Basically there are 3 methods of VLAN Tagging possible: 01 –External Switch Tagging (EST) 02 – Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) 03 –Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) I highly recommend also this following PDF document concerning VLANing in VMware ESX which you […]
Consolidate your physical servers with VMware Essentials for SMB promo
Compare before you buy. With VMware vSphere 4 Essentials you can consolidate your existing physical servers into 3 physical hosts, with each 2CPU. VMware vSphere Essential & VMware vSphere Essentials Plus – are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them […]
Starwind innovates with Free FCoE
Fibre channel over Ethernet. StarWind announces a release of the first-ever FCoE software initiator for Windows that will be offered for free. It allows servers to connect to Fibre Channel storage over standard Ethernet network. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an encapsulation of Fibre Channel packets over Ethernet networks. Especially useful on 10Gigabit Ethernet […]
Use NIC teaming feature to share load and get passive failover
NIC teaming with VMware vSphere 4 With VMware vSphere 4 you have the possibility to team your NICs and benefit redundancy and share the network load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among the members of the network. The configuration is easy via GUI even if its possible use CLI (command line interface) for […]
ESXi 4 does not support serial and parallel ports
There is no support for serial and parallel ports on ESXi 4 host. I was trying to connect a modem device which communicates via serial port on one of ESXi hosts at customer sites the other day. But every time when I wanted to add a serial port to my VM, which was an Windows […]
VMware VMA – how to change default english keyboard
When you need to change the default keyboard language. VMware vMA is a Redhat entreprise Linux 5 prepackaged virtual appliance which helps you manage ESXi 4 installations. ESXi 4 is the hypervizor without the classic Service Console. VMware is trying to push more and more to this direction since the Sevice console is a potential […]
Static MAC address set in VMware
How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same host, the MAC adress of the VM is changed. If you want to guarantee that the same […]
VMware Patch process step by step video
VMware KB video showing patching of ESX Host. vSphere 4 Update Manager in action. If you never used VMware vSphere 4 update manager before, this video shows you how to get started and how to successfully apply a necessary security patches to your ESX host. The GUI interface seems to be difficult to understand, but […]
Rename VMDKs to avoid Backup conflicts
What if you end up with the same vmdk file name on different datastores? A simple case scenario that can happens: A single VM has several hard disk attached to it. The hard disk VMDK files are located on different datastores. When creating a new hard disk which location is on different datastore to a […]
Spring discounts with promo codes at VMware
Promo codes for Workstation 7 and Fusion 3, including Upgrades… After a recent announce of huge discount for vSphere Essentials, where you’re able get $500 off the price (50% OFF), today there are some more discount with promo codes announced. You can get 25% off the regular price for Workstation 7 and for Fusion 3. […]
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