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New Hypervisor Feature Comparison Chart by Citrix
Not sure what to make of it (Except that an ESX4 vs.. XenServer 5 chart will look DRAMATICALLY different). I do also disagree with the ‘Shared image…
Post P2V Batch file information to Automate Cleanups 2
Found another great little VBS script @ VMTN This little script by John Cerroni uses VBS and Application Names to find the uninstall string in the registry and…
HOWTO: Create a LUN on NetApp Filer for VMware
To leverage enterprise features of VMware such as DRS, vMotion and HA, shared storage must be allocated to all ESX server on the network. The process of creating…
Creating a local disk VMFS manually:
If the VMFS creation on the local disk fails through the GUI, we can create it via command line as a workaround. Putty into your server : putty…
Nice Uptime!
Here’s something you don’t see everyday! 455 days of continuous UPTIME! Ran across this server at a client today running ESX 2.5.2. Unfortunately I am about to break…
Time for a new Server? I’ll take TWO!
When crafting VMware solutions for clients, I always stress the importance of buying HOST servers in at least pairs. This guarantees that every server will have a vMotion…
Setting Full Hardware Acceleration with VBS in a POST P2V script.
Here is another useful bit of code script that I came across surfing the big bad internet. Dim RegValueData Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\.rootdefault:StdRegProv") objReg.GetStringValue &H80000002,"HARDWAREDEVICEMAPVIDEO","DeviceVideo0",RegValueData objReg.SetDWORDValue &H80000002,Right(RegValueData, 82),"Acceleration.Level",0 This…
Post P2V Batch file information to Automate Cleanups
I’ve been busy doing A LOT of P2V conversions lately and decided to look into automating some of it! Found these great links to scripting techniques to automate…