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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…
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Q&A: should i use vmware ESX or hyper-v for best costs/Reliability ratio
The Question Below was received by giammin: i need to build a 2 server cluster to host a frontend virtual machine. the virtual machine should run on 1 node(most powerful) and in case of hardware/software failure run on 2 node (less powerful only for services availability, reliability) should i use vmware or hyper-v for best…
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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…