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VMware vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing Amendment
In reaction to the huge demand of VMware customers after the announcement of the new vSphere 5 vRAM licensing Schema, VMware has announced the changes of its vRAM entitlements & few other licensing items to respond to customers demands. In this article, I will be covering just that. Its important to note, I am a…
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Pay for vSphere Enterprise Plus from Microsoft Licenses Saving in a virtualized enviornment
Note: If you have read this article earlier, please read this revised version of it as after getting multiple comments from different readers I have noticed that although the over all statement of the article was correct the calculation example was not fully accurate so I have gone through the Microsoft Licensing and the comments all over…
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My Own low cost Lab VMware ESX White Box Specs
I know many of you out there want to practice on many VMware products specially vSphere & would like to build your own lab but without breaking the bank. I have been able to build my own Home Lab for less than $600 buying the parts in Kuwait, which probably end up even cheaper on…
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vCenter to Manager Hyper-V is a reality
Working for VMware has always been filled with surprises since the first day I joined. I really believe we have one of the greatest engineering departments out there. I mean when your engineering team create a plugin that allow vCenter to Manager Hyper-V in their own spare time, it just get you really proud to…
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vSphere 4.1 Update 1 has been released.
vSphere 4.1 Update 1 has been released on Feb 10th. Below is what’s included in this update: VMware ESX/ESXi Enhancements: Support for up to 160 logical processors Inclusion of additional drivers (ESX 4.1 Update 1 includes the 3ware SCSI 2.26.08.036vm40 and Neterion vxge 2.0.28.21239-p3.0.1.2 drivers, which were provided as a separate download in earlier releases.)…
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Adding tape Library/Drive to VM running over ESX/ESXi 4.
I have been asked lately if NPIV could be used to attach a tape library to a VM, & as attaching tape libraries to a VM has never been well documented. I have decided to write a small post about it. I don’t want to be a smart A**, but I will start by asking…
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How to enable VMotion if you have bought vSphere Essential Plus 4.0
As many of you know VMware has included VMotion in vSphere Essential Plus 4.1, where it was not included in vSphere Essential Plus 4.0 I have been getting the question lately, how do I obtain VMotion in this case if I have a valid support. Do I have to upgrade or change my license? The…
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VMware vSphere Essentials Kit & Essentials Plus Kit upgrade path
I can see the above title bringing a lot of our competitors to read my blog for the next few days. I know many of them are already monitoring it daily, & as many of them still believe that there is still no upgrade path from our vSphere Essentials Kit & vSphere Essentials plus Kit…
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VMware vSphere 4.1 Standard License to Include VMotion
Although this news has been released for over a month now, I believe it was not pushed hard enough. Now its the time for it to make it to my blog. After reading this post, cheaper can no more be an execuse to not choose VMware the leading Virtualization product for your datacenter. Its no…
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You do not appear to have a valid CD-ROM device. If this is a CD-ROM device try enabling legacy emulation mode
I have got one of my customers today complaining that she can not access her laptop CD-ROM inside her virtual machine & that she keeps getting the following error: “You do not appear to have a valid CD-ROM device. If this is a CD-ROM device, try enabling legacy emulation mode” The easy solution for this…
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vSphere Client Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
Today I have installed VMware ESXi on our Lab blades. While trying to connect to my ESXi 4 server using a vSphere client newly installed on Windows XP SP3 I had been hit by the below two errors: Error parsing the server “server ip” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator. and after…
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VMware Long Distance VMotion is the missing link for cloud computing today
I am not sure how many people has heard of VMware Long Distance VMotion, although the concept has been supported since fourth quarter of last year. For that, I thought its worth getting people to know about it. It even get more important when deciding on your cloud computing vendor. At the moment, many companies…
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MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VS VMware vSphere
I am sure many of you have been looking for a comprehensive comparison between VMware ESX 4.0 & MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. I am sure you have found plenty of them with one problem they all were mostly sponsored by one of the vendors. Many of us were ready for a real independent…
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VMware Snapshots feedback have you filled yours yet?
In order to improve VMware Snapshots & enhance them further, VMware has just published a Snapshot feedback to its users. The return of the feedback will be used to guide future development of VMware Snapshots & enhance it depending on your feedback. If you believe VMware Snapshot technology is in need for any enhancement its the time…
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When trying to access virtual machine using web access you get “Cannot access virtual machine console, the request timed out”
As many of my customers are still on VMware ESX4 & not yet upgraded to ESX4U1, I get many complains about virtual machine console timeout error from web access for non administrator users. Yeah, I have already pushed an upgrade recommendation, but as usual most companies take more time approving the change request than to…