Category: Server Virtualization

  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V RTM Installation & Configuraiton step by step (Part 1).

    As Hyper-V being the biggest fuzz in the Virtualization solutions today, thanks to the Microsoft marketing forces. They can generate the biggest noise about each product they produce. As a lot of people hearing the fuzz, but did not have the chance to discover Hyper-V, I have decided I will discover it and take every…

  • VMware VI3 Root Shell Access

    In this article I am trying to answer the following questions, which seems to pop up all the time. How to enable Shell Access for the root account in VMware VI3 (VMware ESX)? Is it the same way in VMware VI3 V3.5? Why would I want to enable shell Access for the root account? Why…

  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Demo

    Many people know VMware by products as VMware Workstation or VMware Server but not many know the full power of the enterprise products of the company. For these who are missing on the VMware Enterprise products amazing functionalities I will leave the following video for them (Unfortunately its only available in English) …..

  • Watch The Virtually Famous Video Contest Winner- VMware Virtualized Hardware Hotel

    VMware had organized a contest so that the users of their products could demonstrate by means of a video how VMware changed their lives… and the way they work. For all the people with a few years in technology, they know that VMware with no doubt is the most innovating technology of the last decade…

  • IBM lets Linux programs run on Unix servers

    IBM Virtualization plattform “PowerVM” lets X86-Linux application programs run unmodified on system p servers with power processors. This ability called by IBM “Lx86”. Linux Binaries are recognized automatically and run under AIX exactly the same way they run under Linux. Thereby among other options the server consolidation will be facilitated for the users. Lx86 becomes…

  • IBM dopes its Pseries entry Line with Power6

    IBM in the begining of this year had revealed the long waited p520 Express and p550 Express line, both proposed in rack and tower format, and especially equipped with the microprocessor Power 6, the most recent of the IBM Processors catalogue. Two choices are proposed according to the speed of clock 3.5 or 4.2 GHz. In addition, IBM signed…

  • VMware wants to re-motivate its troops

    VMware has announced several major improvements to its partnership program VMware VIP, which relates to nearly 10,000 partners around the world. The improvements include the Advantage+ Incentive Program, which offers higher margins to partners and reward their efforts with those concluded pro-actively sales of products and solutions VMware, sold to new customers or those who…

  • VirtualBox: Is it a Necessity or a Gadget?

    In recent days, a small software made its way to the little man in Ubuntu os: it is Virtual Box. Many articles have already been written on this subject and I will not dwell on its installation, or configuration. It is simply a virtual machine software as the famous VMware, except that the Virtual Box…

  • What’s new in VI3.5?

    The VMware team few days back has a very short Webinar on “What’s New in VMware Infrastructure 3.5”. I have missed some of the points, but below are the most important things that have been raised: ESX Server 3.5 & 3i: The 3i server will be next generation to the “normal” ESX a decisive strategic…

  • Tivoli TSM guide to securing VMware

    IBM provides an excellent Field Guide to safeguard VMware disk files with Tivoli TSM under VMware GSX (Linux) and VMware ESX for free download. In addition to discussing general security issues it also address special tuning tips and useful information on the configuration. Absolutely marvelous! This Field Guide, can be downloaded from here Update: A…

  • Tripwire Config check for ESX

    Tripwire config check for ESX is a nice Free tool to come! Tripwire Config check review the configurations of your Physical & VMware systems based on your specific needs! Tripwire ConfigCheck is designed to sift through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware’s ESX Server and identify those that are not set according to VMware’s…

  • PDF for VMware’s Connection Broker has just been published

    VMware has just published a big PDF with a very good step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the new Virtual Desktop Broker Connection Manager (VDM) 2.1. You can download the PDF here.

  • Introduction To VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 New Modules Distribution

    As VMware has changed the way they distribute their Modules across their VMware VI3 versions, many IT Professionals are still wondering how the new distribution work. For that I have decided to post it on here. I hope it will be helpful for everyone. Please post any questions you have about this new distribution. For…

  • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Release Candidate! …

    Microsoft has spent an important steps in virtualization since it has announced the Release Candidate version of its a long waited Hyper-V. Already present in Windows 2008 Server Beta, this update (RC 0) Install on 2008 can see, a little more prepared for the final version that is evolving over time. Thus, Microsoft intends to…

  • How-To Install Windows XP on VMware ESX:

    Again and again the question about how to install Windows XP on VMware ESX platform pop up? The fact that VMware uses a separate SCSI controller for the virtual machines and that causes windows error message similar to the following to appear on the screen while windows copying its files during the installation: ==================================================== Installation…