How-to Install ESXi 3.5 U3 on USB Stick If you do not want to install VMware ESXi 3.5 update 3 on your local drive, you can just follow a simplified procedure which you’ll find below. You can find detailed information about what’s new in this release at WMware website here. All you need to do […]
Free Performance Monitoring tool for ESX Server – VM Monitor from Solarwinds
Monitoring Solution for your ESX Server – for free Solarwinds is well know company for their subnet calculator. Today I’d like to present your a free toll from Solarwinds called VM Monitor With this free software you are going to be able to do: Fast check the health of your VMware ESX Server by monitoring […]
Mounting VMDK disks directly to your windows box – how to
How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface with a little software called VMware Disk Mount Utility. This utility can be downloaded from VMware. I will show you how […]
How-to prevent downloading the VI client for your lan users
Prevent downloading the VMware Infrastructure Client via the Web Browser. You already know that you can download the VI client via your web browser, but you don’t know that you also can prevent to appear the link for downloading the client to your clients. Oh yes. Your cliens do not need to see the download […]
VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.
Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of space. What to do? You can add additional drive to have another storage space, but […]
How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5
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 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 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 install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5
How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5 I’m quite enjoying making those videos. I find that using videos is much more direct than to do a long article. So this time I’m going to show you a video about the installation of ESXi server inside of VMware Workstation. The workstation is actually […]