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Virtualization Questions & Answers.
As we have noticed that the number of our readers have been increasing & the amount of questions we had been getting through e-mail had increased. We have decided to allow people to post all their virtualization questions on this page & we will easier answer it directly in here in the comment or create…
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Oracle Ditches Virtual Iron & VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users
Only after a bit over a month of Oracle acquiring Virutal Iron, they have to ditches the product. That mean customers who had already bought Virtual Iron or planning to buy it will be left in the dark waiting for a savior. It seems VMware has been well aware of the situation & prepared to…
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VMware Capacity Planner on System without internet
Offline VMware Capacity Planner: I have mostly done online VMware Capacity Planner as most customers usually don’t mind it, though when I started offering VMware Capacity Planner for Banks & Ministries that’s when Offline VMware Capacity Planner came handy. Many of the companies & ministries mind you sending data online directly, where they are OK…
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VMWare ESXi editing the Hostfile
If you are as paranoid with redundancy as my team & I are, then entering the hostnames & IPs of all the server in a cluster into the VMware host file is a must. As your VMware HA is dependant on your servers being able to resolve the names of itself & other ESX server…
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VMware ESXi – Console Access (Unsupported)
Did the title bring your attention? Have you heard that one of the main reasons for VMware ESXi was to get rid of the service console? Are you sure there is no console in VMware ESXi? The true is there is still a very tiny console in VMware ESXi, though it has way smaller foot…
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VMware vSphere does not support VMware SRM & VMware View
It had been asked so often lately, if VMware vSphere support SRM & VMware View yet. I had even got calls from customers who tried to integrate the two together. The VMware statement is quite clear in this regard, both VMware Site Recovery Manager(SRM) & VMware View are not supported yet by VMWare vSphere 4.0.…
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ESXi cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes
In the past few weeks, I had been hit by many calls of many of my colleagues & customers being hit by the following error when trying to configure VMware ESXi HA: “cmd addnode failed for secondary node: /opt/vmware/aam/bin/ft_startup failed to complete within three minutes” After investigating the error for sometime & searching on the…
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MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load
This video is just what the title said, MS Hyper-V Crashes under heavy load. Watch out what a mess you are planning to go into!!!!! I expect to see too many comments on this one, don’t get me disappointed :).
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Changing the VLAN ID of a ESX Service Console using Command Line
A good amount of ESX admins ask on dialy basis how to change the VMware ESX Service Console Vlan using command line. As I decided to save time by writing the steps for these kind of questions to send it to others when asked. I will document these commands in here: First of all check…
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Cisco TelePresence – On-Stage Holographic Video Conferencing
I know reading the title you wonder what does this has to do with Virtualizaiton, but if you look deep into it you will find out that some one has figured out how to virtualize human :). For example you have one instructur & he can do lecture in 20 different countries which is 100s…
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Vizioncore vRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Setting for database Virtual Machines
This post is the third part of the “Vizioncore vRanger Quiescing & VSS Setting for image backup of Virtual Machines.” to start from the beginning of the series please start at: Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings. Or if you are looking for the recommendation for virtual machines which does not run…
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Vizioncore vRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Setting for non-database Virtual Machines:
This post is the second part of the “Vizioncore vRanger Quiescing & VSS Setting for image backup of Virtual Machines.” to start from the beginning of the series please start at: Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings. Or if you are looking for the recommendation for virtual machines which run a database…
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Vizioncore VRanger (Previously ESXRanger) Quiescing & VSS Recommended Settings:
I have been always hit by customers who have a problem taking an image backup of virtual machines that run a database application. Another repeated question is “when & when not to use Quiescing & VSS with VCB & vRanger”. For that I have decided to write this set of posts hoping to answer these…
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VMware View manager problem when entering domain administrator for the View Composer setting
While trying to add the domain administrator to my VMware View Composer settings in VMware View Manager, I was getting the following errors repeatedly: Wrong Domain Bad user name or Password I have found out that the problem was caused by my Virtual Center where VMware View Composer reside was not a part of the…
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VMware VCDX Enterprise Exam 3.5 Study Guide
As VMware the Virtualization market leader has released their new certification VCDX & More question started poping up of how to prepare for the exam. As there is almost no official study book for VCDX up to the moment. I thought I would share two valuable resources to prepare for the exam. Please note this…