Yesterday’s post about VMware Tools for Nested ESXi hosts (a VIB – vSphere Installation Bundle) – which allows installing VMware tools in VM running nested ESXi is an exciting functionality for home labbers and people struggling to get more physical hosts to play with in the lab. The VMware Tools for Nested ESXi adds possibility to […]
ESXi – the past, the present and the future
The ESXi – COS less future of tomorrow? ESXi 4 is now The Hypervizor being the most promoted by VMware. The version of ESX Server without the Linux Red Hat service console. Sure, this is an obvious advantage of such a hypervizor. Reduced surface attack, reduced patching, cooling and reduced energy needed to run (in it’s […]
Moving ESX host from one Virtual Center to another
How to register an ESX Server host in a Virtual Center? Sometimes you need to move an ESX Server host into another vCenter Management Server. To move an ESX host from one Virtual Center to another, you must remove the host from Virtual Center first , then add the host to a new VirtualCenter. It […]
Data recovery – new GUI backup tool present in vSphere 4
VMware Data Recovery (VDR) – a GUI tool now. The VMware Data Recovery is an Agent-less disk based backup and recovery solution. Data Recovery can backup/restore your VMs or file level restores of Windows or Linux guess OS. The principal features of VMware Data Recovery are: – Disk-based backup and recovery to enable fast backup/restoration […]
You have to have 64 bit hardware for vSphere
The new version of VMware ESX (vSphere 4) will run only on 64-bit CPUs hardware . Mostly the new processors arround are either 32- or 64-bit. Today almost all enterprise servers manufactured today have 64-bit CPUs but you might want to check some of your older servers if they are 64 bits capable or not… […]
How to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESX.
I wanted to test an Openfiler as a solution for HA and vMotion with ESX Server and vCenter. Using Openfiler is a great way to save some money on expensive SANs and for home lab testing and learning, this choice is just great. I did not have 3 physical boxes (2 for ESX hosts and one for […]
ESX Server Independant disk access mode, persistent and nonpersistent modes
One of the questions I was looking around as an ESX server learner, was to find out what is the difference between Persistent and Nonpersistent mode. Normal disks are included in snapshots. In most cases, this is the setting you want ?with Independent deselected. Independant disks = no snapshots possible. The think to know is […]
How-to find orphaned Virtual disks in your ESX server environement
Update: There is an excellent freeware application available with many different other cool options to look at your virtual infrastructure including how-to find orphaned virtual disks. The RVTools freeware is cool and together with many free software tools which can be found on my Free tools page. How-to find orphaned Virtual disks in your ESX server environement […]
Top 10 PowerShell scripts for Virtual Infrastructure
I want to share with you the information I found at virtual-strategy.com about Top 10 PowerShell scripts availables today. I think that it’s is a great resource, which should be bookmarked and kept safe and every ESX admin should have an online copy…. So in no ordered list: 1. Quick Migration Script from Mike diPetrillo. […]
Top 5 reasons to virtualize with VMware ESXi
Everyday I hear people to speak more and more about virtualization. This technology is becoming more and more popular and more and more IT andministrators are just going for it and virtualize their servers. So why should you virtualize your your servers? Why should you use VMware instead of Microsoft or Xen… Most of these […]