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Nokia N800 & VMware Mobile Virtualization
VMware seems to always come up with innovations that blow people mind. One of the latest VMware innovations I was checking out is VMware Mobile Virtualization. Let’s see how VMware define Mobile Virtualization. As per VMware, Mobile Virtualization(MVP) is a thin layer of software that is embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications…
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VMware ESX How to enable SNMP
As many VMware ESX monitoring tools are hitting the market place, and with the tend of these tools being dependent on SNMP (example: Starwind Free VM Monitor for VMware ESX), the more I am getting the question on how can I enable SNMP on my VMware ESX Server.. The instruction below will cover how to…
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SolarWind Free VM Monitor tool for VMware ESX
SolarWind has released a new VMware ESX Monitoring tool called VM Monitor. The new tool can monitor the status & utilizaiton of your ESX Servers as well your Virtual Machines. SolareWind VM Monitor uses the SNMP Service on VMware ESX to monitor your enviornment. As VMware ESXi does not support SNMP queries, it’s still not…
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VMware Capacity Planner still missing the Intel Nehalem processor
I know many Virtualization Consultants who all are still wondering where is the Intel Nehalem processor in the VMware Capacity Planner. The Nehalem processor has already hit the market more than 6 months back, VMware still has not update their Capacity Planner to include it. We all know that the Nehalem processor is providing a…
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Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT
This article title say “Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT“, but what should that mean to you. It should mean the world to a lot of us. It should mean think twice trice before you buy a Sony VAIO laptop, due to the amount of limitation that come with disabling Intel VT. Ok, let’s see…
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Can you guess whose logo is this?
I want all of you to look at this logo & try to guess which company logo is this :). Ah if you rather watch this post as a video instead of reading it check the video below else keep reading. I am sure this logo is familiar to most of us. At least I…
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vCenter Server linked Mode. Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group
vSphere Virtual Center Linked Mode Prerequisites: Well, yes this article has two headers or titles. Guess what they are almost identical. I have seen “Error 28039. Setup cannot join vCenter Server to the linked mode group” all over the net & without any one posting resolution for it. hmmmm, how did I find out about…
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VMware vSphere – VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch bug or limitation
Many of you have already heard about the new VMware vNetwork Distributed switch. It has been a really great innovation by VMware. I believe most of us has already learned something about its benefit like: 1- Simplify Virtual Machine Networking: As you get to create one switch per cluster & create the policy across all…
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How to enable VMware EVC on VMware vSphere & VI3 without downtime
If you don’t know what is VMware EVC or you need to find out more about it, please look at my last post VMware EVC enhanced VMotion Compatibility enable VMware VMotion across CPU generations Ok, if you had read that and now wondering how to get it setup without having to shutdown your virtual machines.…
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VMware EVC (Enhanced VMotion Compatibility) enable VMware VMotion across CPU generations
Everyone who had been using VMware for a while, would appreciate VMware VMotion. Actually VMware VMotion have always been a distinguished feature of VMware ESX servers. Despite of VMotion has always been a great feature, people using it at earlier stages used to have a tough time when having to use it across different CPU generation. That meant companies had…
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Virtualization nightmares!
Find out how this cute lady nightmares Vanished using VMware :). watch the video below to find out just that: Do you still have nightmares? or did VMware or virtualization helped you get rid of one, please let us know about it in the comment below.
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VMware ESX Action Movie
Lol, Take a look & try to imagine how VMware would look like if it was an Action Movie. Check out the video below to find out: I hope you enjoyed it, please leave a comment of what do u think of this movie.
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Finaly Microsoft opens Hyper-V code to the Linux community
In a very interesting article by Jeffrey Schawartz in Readmondmag.com, has published an interesting news about Microsoft’s decision – “unthinkable” until a few days ago – MS “open” more than 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community under the license GPLv2 (General Public License version 2). The code, published on Monday, includes three device…
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Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V is now offered 4 free
Citrix Systems, Inc. has just made available to the general public, Citrix Essentials for HyperV – Express Edition version, for free. The new version of Express Edition is available for immediate download and includes Citrix StorageLink technology. With StorageLink, Windows administrators can dramatically simplify storage management. The Express Edition version of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V…
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VMWare ESX: A general system error occurred: Ufad server is not running.
It seems to me many people are facing the same ugly error when they try to convert a physical server to a virtual server using VMware Consolidation Planning tool. The error usually get after the tool has finished annalyzing the physical machine & it was deemed ‘Ready for consolidation’ with Confidence ‘high’. When the user…