Category: Server Virtualization

  • 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…

  • VMWARE ESXi – Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled

    I had always been using the VMware ESX version in my implementation. As I noticed that VMware seems to be pushing toward the move to ESXi, I had decided to try the latest version for a full scale installation. Though when I was trying to configure HA for my VMware ESXi Cluster, I had been…

  • VMware ESX & USB & Parralel dongles

    When ever I attend a VMware presentation, one of the most common question “How would we handle our USB or parralel licenses dongles in VMware ESX.” Are they supported? Can I get them to work some how? What make the question more critical that most presenters are from a sale or pre-sale background and does…

  • VMware ESX & Virtual Center 3.5 upgrade guide

    It might be the time for you to upgrade your VMware ESX servers to VMware 3.5U3 and Virtual Center 3.5U4. You might even just want to upgrade to any version of VMware ESX & vCenter 3.5. Then this guide linked to below is all you need. It has a great step by step instruction of…

  • VMWare ESX: How to recover your VMFS partition table

    You might wake up for a bad day after a power outage or a storage failure. You thought it was over, after you had succeeded to bring all your machines back up and running. In few minutes you found out that some of your virtual machines are missing. After a small investigation you found out…

  • Redhat announces a change in Virtualization Strategy

    Redhat has announced an interesting change in their virtualization strategy. They seems to dump Xen for KVM in their upcoming releases. This will be a happy news for a lot of open source lovers. As Citrix & Microsoft are controlling the way Xen is evolving, they would rather a real open source alternative. Redhat has…

  • Top 10 VMware VMworld 2009 Videos

    Finally back home :). Don’t get me wrong Cannes was great, though nothing like being back home. OK for people who did not get to join us in Cannes, I had for them a free ticket for the replay :). I wish I could afford to give our visitors a VMworld pass for free, but…

  • Citrix XenServer Enterprise for free

    After the News that the bomb had been launched by Virtualization.info: http://www.virtualization.info/2009/02/citrix-xenserver-is-now-free-xencenter.html Citrix has officially released their enterprise version for free check out the announcement at Citrix XenServer Enterprise for free: “First of all Citrix is releasing for free the Enterprise Edition of XenServer. This is not a scaled down, limited version of the Hypervisor.…

  • VMworld 2009 announce vSphere, vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware vShield Zones

    VMworld Europe 2009. VMware has used the VMworld Europe 2009 to announce two new products that will be available this year: 1- vCenter Server Heartbeat: Comes to solve the problem arising from a possible collapse of the server that manages the VMware virtualized platforum, specifically vCenter Server earlier known by Virtual Center. The vCenter Server…

  • VMware ESX – VMware VMotion

    What’s VMware VMotion? VMware VMotion enables the active migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without interruption of service, availability of service and complete integrity of transactions. VMware VMotion moves running virtual machines from one physical server to another while maintaining service availability. VMware VMotion allows IT organizations to: Perform live…

  • VMworld Get Your Free SvSAN at Booth 59

    Haha finally at VMworld Europe. What an event!!! I will keep posting new discoveries on here. The first thing that got my attention as many of you who is attending is the nice free gadgets are available at the different booths. Free is always good is not it. Though the Free SvSAN offered at booth…

  • VMware ESX Healtcheck script

    Before asking VMware or your vendor for a health check on your VMware enviornemnt you can use the free Healthcheck script as an early start. Actually its a great idea to automate it to send you and update of your enviornment status weekly. Below is a bit more of the VMware Healthcheck script as posted…

  • Best Practices for VMware Consolidated Backup

    Take a look at the new changes to the VMware Consolidated Backup best practices document. Overall, the changes made have improved and simplified the process of backing up your virtual machine. Download the document here.

  • New technical documents about VMware View – Now Available

    Get access to the newest technical documents published by VMware that will tell you all you need to know about the new virtualization solution, VMware View. Become a real expert!

  • Building a Cluster with Hyper-V and Server Core (Part 3) and Creating a Windows Server 2008 Cluster

    Here is the third and last article for the how to build a cluster with Server Core and Hyper-V. If you followed the steps correctly from the beginning, you should get a perfect cluster. If not, go back and make sure you didn’t skip any steps.