How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power your virtual machine. When you power of your […]
How to use free Quick migration script for VMware ESX
Quick Migration is a free feature which came from Microsoft’s Hyper-V. VMware has VMotion but only in the Entreprise License. Which is quite costly for most small businesses. So one great guy find a nice way to make the same feature for VMware ESX hosts. It’s a little script which is runned under Windows PowerShell […]
Free Hypervisor from Microsoft is here
Free Standalone HyperVisor called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 was released this thursday. It is a free product from Microsoft. What it looks like? It looks like the Windows 2008 server CORE installation. You will need to make quite a few steps to make this machine behave… -:). You will have to rename the machine and […]
Cool feature for ESX Server 3.5 – VM Bios Delay
One cool feature that I was wishing to have in the past is the VM Bios Delay. What is it? Nothing is more anoying that when you create new Virtual Machine and you want to boot from a CD. Before you have time to hit F2 or ESC the machine is trying other boot devices […]
How-to Mount Windows Share to the ESX Service Console
In this how-to you’ll learn that it is possible to mount a Windows folder share to the VMWare ESX Service Console. Like this you can use your windows shares as an additional storage space within your ESX Server. So in this scenario I imagine that I have one physical server running 2003 Server, and on […]
How-to convert your Acronis file Backup into virtual disk
When you are using Acronis True Image Echo Workstation (or Server) to backup and create an image file of your system, you can convert this file into Virtual Disk. You can imagine that you do your backups with Acronis on regular basics and so you can use this virtual disk in VMware ESX Server or […]
How to install Windows XP on ESXi with LSI driver
The correct LSI driver is necessary to install Win XP on ESX Server.When you first install a Windows XP on ESX, there is a little trouble. Windows XP uses by default the LSI Logic driver. But Windows XP does not have the correct driver by default so the installation will fail, stating that no disk […]
How to easy use ISOs during managing and installing VMs in ESX Server
Iso file – what is it? It’s simple. Iso file is an image file of your CD or DVD-ROM or it can be also your own ISO file created from a folder of your choise. Iso Image of your CD rom can be different sizes. Maximum size of an ISO file created from a CD […]
How-to activate SSH in ESXi
This post is now a historical post as the activation of SSH is possible through GUI, but this wasn’t the case before (you’ll see at the end of this post). How-to activate SSH in ESXi through vSphere Client. If using ESXi 3.x and 4.x, than the process has been invoked from the server’s console, but now,if you’re using […]
How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VM – Part 1
V2V Virtual to physical with Symantec. In this article, I’m gonna show you that is possible to use Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery to successfully convert your VMs either into VMware (VMDK) or into Virtual PC (VHD) format. The advantage of using BESR is that you can also use the image of your VM to do […]