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What is Enhanced vMotion compatibility

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vMotion everybody knows. Right? If not your are living under the rock….. -:) Just kidding. Using vMotion you can move the VMs needed to another host (another physical server) in your cluster. For what? Like this you can stop your physical server for maintenance, cleaning, vacuum cleaning…..of course. Even the serves needs some vacuum cleaning…. […]

VMware Converter 4.0.1 and Thin provisionning

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VMware Converter 4.0.1 is Free Tool now fully compatible with vSphere 4. One of the great features is Thin Provisionning. What is this? The name is a bit confusing, but in real it’s really great, because it saves you tonnes of diskspace. Oh yes!! When you converting your physical server into virtual, you can chose […]

How-to connect ESXi, vSphere to Openfiler iSCSI NAS

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How-to connect ESX Server to Openfiler iSCSI NAS. Now that we are in the ESXi era we can test it in a lab environment with a iSCSI NAS freeware solution Openfiler. Few months ago I wrote an article about how to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESXi. That blogpost was a step-by-step procedure […]

Find out if Intel-VT or AMD-V enabled in the BIOS without rebooting

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How-to findout without reboot if the Intel VT or AMD-V are enabled in the BIOS. When you working with VMotion, Enhanced VMotion Capability (EVC), or 64bit virtual machine performance, you must make sure if Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) are enabled in the BIOS. This article provides a method to determine if […]

Starwind V2V Converter – easily convert your VMs from VHD to VMDK

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StarWind V2V Converter helps you to convert VHD to VMDK and vice versa. So if You are Hyper-V or Virtual PC user you can convert your virtual hard disks to VMware VMDK format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image, but creates […]

How-to install ESXi 4.0 on USB memory Key

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Update: You should really check the latest post on How to create bootable VMware ESXi 5 U1 by using VMware Player for Free – It’s the fastest and easiest method to create bootable USB memory stick with the latest Free VMware ESXi 5 U1 hypervisor. Written in the past (some time ago…) , I published […]

New books about vSphere 4 are here and others are comming

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Need to master new vSphere 4? How about buying a book? I’m really supprised that number of books about the new vSphere 4 are already available (or possible to command at least). VMware vSphere 4 was released just few feeks ago and many new books are already in stores. 01. Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (For […]

Convert any Windows server in a free SAN for your ESX/vSphere lab

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In case you are not using free Openfiler under Linux for your VMware ESX Server/vSphere 4 homelab (if you don’t like linux for example…) there is a solution for you. A company called StarWind is providing for free a Software allowing to create an iSCSI Target for your VMware Infrastructure (up to 2 Tb capcity […]

30% Greater Consolidation in vSphere 4

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vSphere 4 offers 30 % greater consolidation. If in your existing ESX Server infrastructure you were able to achive some consolidation ratios. Then if you’re going for the vSphere this year you’ll be able to gain 30% more consolidation ratio….. … So if you’re an existing customer today and you have a 100 host deployment […]