There are many interesting articles about building a Cloud platform using vCloud director, creating network pools, preparing hosts and ensuring your allocation settings are correct. All good stuff for vAdmins. Now consider the business application person. He has experience with the application from a previous role at another company. He knows it will revolutionise his […]
New benchmarking tool for VDI performance troubleshooting
Login consultants has released new version of benchmarking tool for VDI -Virtual Session Indexer 3.5 The Login ‘Virtual Session Indexer’ tool is a platform independent, ‘turn-key’ performance measurement solution. You’re able to test performance VDI sessions, by simulating a real workload of office workers, but not only. The solutions comes in two editions. Free and […]
Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation
I’m running a VMware Workstation on Vista x64 bits with 2 partitions (c: – system and d: – DATA). Always when I wanted to create a new virtual machine on my VMware Workstation, I had to navigate through all the folders on my c: drive to finally create a folder on a D: drive where […]
How-to uninstall completely a VMware product if the uninstall process fails
Sometimes it just happens. You want to uninstall for example a VMware workstation from your computer, and you have an error saying that the uninstaller is corrupted. Then you try to delete the Program files/vmware folder and you leave a bunch of files all over your system folder and registry. What to do? You have […]
Collection of terms used in today’s virtualization language…
I decided to put on a little collection of terms from the virtualization business. There is many technical terms used today in all over the place, and the newcomers are often lost. Who was not at the beginning? So I thought that if I put a post trying to regroup all those terms, it would […]
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 […]
How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs – part 2
This is the part 2 of How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs. With this how-to, I will show you how-to convert the Image file created using BESR for imaging of your VM into VHD or VMDK. In this procedure, you’ll see the conversion into the VHD file but you can do exactly the […]
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 […]
Installation ESX Server inside of VMWare Workstation 6.5
UPDATE: Just check my post showing the installation of ESXi 5 insisde of VMware Workstation. I did one of my first videos. In this video you’ll see that it is possible to install and manage ESX Server even without appropriate hardware. The installation of ESX was possible on a laptop from Fujitsu-Siemes with 4GB of RAM […]