Planning your VMWorld 2008 Trip!
If you have been under a rock for a while, you might not know that VMWorld 2008 is happening in Vegas this year. (This will be a 2.0…
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ESX 3.5 Cisco Discovery Protocol [CDP] Support
One cool new feature of ESX 3.5 is their Cisco Discovery Protocol Support. CDP allows ESX to capture and broadcast Cisco related information to and from the switches.…
ESX Home Lab on the Cheap II – The Free SAN!
Today, XtraVirt released a free iSCSI solution similar to LeftHand's Virtual SAN appliance.Dubbed the XVS, it allows ESX users to tap their unused local VMFS space on different…
Virtual Machines Device Manager – GIGO
Garbage In, Garbage Out! So, you have successfully P2V'd a physical server to your Virtual infrastructure. No Blue screens and the machines powers up just fine. There are…
70GB Snapshot, YIKES!
This week I ran into a 70 GB snapshot head on while upgrading an ESX host. The 70 GB snapshot was the result of a snap of a…
ESX 3.5 Console installation
Here is a quick run through of an ESX server 3.5 Console installation. The console installation is probably the fastest and easiest part of the ESX installation. Once…
vRanger Pro Part I
vRanger Pro is an excellent Backup product by VizionCore. The product which can run on a Physical or Virtual Machine talks with VMware (with or without VCB) in…
Sysprep Windows 2008 in VMware
Today, I ran into an interesting problem using VirtualCenter's Clone to New Machine which integrates sysprep functionality. Apparently, Guest Customization of Windows 2008 is not supported at this…
Enabling DRS
DRS or Distributed Resource Management allows administrators to schedule automated vMotion based on load requirements in the farm. Under the properties of the Cluster, enable DRS. Once Server…