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...
View ArticlePlug-in the external USB drive to ESX Server directly to backup or copy
Sometimes you would like to use your external USB drive to backup (transfer) your VMDK files directly from your ESX Server external USB drive. VMDK files are files with extention *.VMDK and those files...
View ArticleNew products to come in 2009 from VMware
All of those products should be available this year. Some of those products will be available as a part of vSphere and some of them as an licensed add-on. The original blog post came from Scott Vessey...
View ArticleStep by step video how to install VM inside Virtual Infrastructure
Step by step procedure for newbies about how to create and how to install VM inside Virtual Infrastructure – running inside VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Using the VI client. In this video, David...
View ArticleCritical Patch for ESX. Download now
Just for your information, there is a critical patch for ESX to download here. Good news, you don’t need to restart your ESX server. This is a critical patch, so you should run it, after testing, as...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleWhat is Enhanced vMotion compatibility
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?...
View ArticleWhat to do when you can’t delete snapshot
When you can’t delete snapshot. What to do? You know that one of the great features of VMware ESX is a possibility to take snapshot of your system on a regular basics. When something goes wrong, you...
View ArticleTwo video learning sites for VMware
There are 2 important websites where you can find lots of videos about VMware products and how to videos. Those sites are Blip.tv and VMware E-learning on YouTube. The videos on Blip.tv came directly...
View ArticleSIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs
SIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs This is a guest post by Andy Grant. This is a continuation of the post Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. Questions...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCool 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...
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