Tag: vSphere

Configuring a Network share for VMware Data Recovery (vDR)

Configuring a Network share for VMware Data Recovery (vDR)

Now that you have dutifully followed John Simon’s clever documentation on installing vDR, you’ll need to give your little appliance some storage space to dump ... Read More

vSphere (ESX4) and Citrix Provisioning Services

vSphere (ESX4) and Citrix Provisioning Services

While testing Citrix Provisioning Services on vSphere I noticed a couple of interesting things : Thin Provisioned streamed targets seem pretty neat. ;) Originally a ... Read More

How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM

How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM

Now that VMware has released their first set of patches for vSphere, let the mass migrations begin! :) John Simon sent me over his EXTENSIVE ... Read More

MAC OS on vSphere! Thanks to IDE support!

MAC OS on vSphere! Thanks to IDE support!

One nice little feature added to ESX4 is IDE disk support for the VMs.  This of course allows us to now run all of our ... Read More

vSphere vMotion error : Mismatched Host CPU features

vSphere vMotion error : Mismatched Host CPU features

It seems that after upgrading a Virtual Machine’s hardware from Version 4 to Version 7 on vSphere, the VM may no longer be able to ... Read More