vMotion Certified for 200 Kilometers by VMware Now it’s just been certified by VMware that the long distance vMotion is officially supported by VMware. The maximum distance is 200 Kilometers. That’s perfect because our Island has about this distance. From St Denis to St Pierre (Two capitals) there is only about 80 Kilometers… -:). There […]
New product from EMC for the SMB and home market
This looks like that I could upgrade my Home Lab… -:) New blog post on Chad’s blog makes me really excited. We’ll see some new product family coming soon to the stores. It’s targeted for SMB and home market users. And that’s really interesting. With products which are more easy to use, they are ing […]
vCenter Server Service does not start automaticaly
I had this issue with vCenter Server on my home lab. Virtual Center starts before the SQL database it depends on. I found a solution in a KB on VMware’s website. This article provides steps to prevent the race condition from occurring. VirtualCenter service does not start after reboot. First I checked log files […]
How-to auto Login to Virtual Center with VI Client
Is this possible? Oh yes… So what’s this all about? You are able to auto login to your vCenter Server without typing login/password every time. You can do it by using pass through authentication. Simply add the following to your VI Client shortcut (at te End): -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local So the whole line should look like this: […]
Three guides on about how to setup iSCSI conection to VMware ESX Server
There is many ways to test iSCSI connection to VMware ESX Server. Sure that there is many different free software which can be used as a shared storage (OpenFiler , Free NAS, EMC Celera (VM) , Xtravirt). It seems tha one of the most popular way is to setup the connection with an Openfiler. Few […]
Upgrade vCenter from SQL express edition to SQL might happens sooner than you think
During an install of the vCenter you have the possibilities to install SQL server express edition (MSDE) as a database for your vCenter or to install full blown SQL 2005 or SQL 2008. For now, for my tests and deployment I always used this option, since MSDE is fully supported for smaller environments (up to […]
Gain more free space with storage Thin Provisioning
Thin provisioning can save you a LOTs of SAN space. You know that storage space on a SAN its expensive. Insdead of thinking how to get enough money to buy larger SAN or upgrade, why not instead migrate your VMs using a VMware Converter with thin provisionned disks? If you are using VMware Workstation, to […]
How-to quickly save and restore the network configuration of your Virtual Machines
When you convert a physical server to a VM the resulting virtual machine’s network settings are all set to DHCP. It’s because the configuration settings of the static IP addresse of the source server are not retained on the resulting virtual machine after the conversion. I saw this discussion on one of the comments on […]
How-to install vSphere 4 inside of VMware Workstation
I did my own video of installing ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation. Whether you’re new to virtualization, or experienced user, to test if stuff works you need to practice. I’m using VMware Workstation to test stuff. The latest release is the 6.5.2. – build 156735. This video ROCKS (especially the music…. ) . What […]
How-to install an evaluation license for the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch
Neal Mueller – Cisco product manager will show in this video how to install and try the software implementation of a Cisco Nexus 1000V switch. You can evaluate the fully featured Cisco Nexus 1000V during 60 days for 16 CPU. This is a great video, which makes the steps easy to follow. Where to get […]
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