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In the summer of 2010 Erik wrote an article about “How to: Optimize guests for VMware View” in which he describes all sorts of changes he makes for a Windows XP or Windows 7 virtual desktop in a VDI environment. The changes that are suggested in the article are still valid, but after reading them [...] Leave A Commentposted in How To by Sander Martijn

In the first part we successfully installed SQL Server, and created vCenter, VMware update manager and SSO databases. In this part we will create the DSNs and Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012, together with all the different components. This post is a part of multipost, where we do an Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012, with [...]Read the full post Install vCenter on Windows ...

Since vSphere 5.1 U1 it’s possible to install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012. Also a Microsoft SQL 2012 is supported as an external database. The software requirements of the latest vSphere has been outlined in my post which discuss the new features of VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1. Since the vSphere 5.1, the architecture of [...]Read the full post Install vCenter Server on Windows S...

Advertise here via BSAVMware Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which has been released few days back (my post: vCenter certificate automation tool 1.0) enables to automate (or rather semi-automate) the management of SSL certificates of different vCenter components. This tool is the only tool that automates the job and which is supported by VMware. Certificates are real pain, and [...]Read the full...

Recently deploying another ESXi host which does shared storage for the whole lab at the same time pointed out the usual warning messages. Most of you usually know all of them, but for the new people which are trying to learn, this post might be useful.  When working in my lab, installing ESXi hosts which runs [...]Read the full post Fix 3 Warning Messages when deploying ESXi hosts in a lab at ...

While pursuing the 100% virtual mark you once in a while run into trouble with legacy hardware where there is hardware directly attached to the physical server you are going to virtualize. If it is USB equipment you can use USB Anywhere devices to make it happen, but if it is serial port connected equipment [...] Leave A Commentposted in Hardware by Edwin Weijdema

Homelab Nexenta on ESXi. In the article I wrote few days back I was building a NAS box for my lab and was going to use it not only as a pure storage box, but also as an ESXi host. At the same time I was going to explore the ZFS possibilities with L2ARC and ZIL [...]Read the full post Homelab Nexenta on ESXi – as a VM at ESX Virtualization.   Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Communi...

I’ve recently bought some parts to replace my old NAS build to get more power and more IOPS. This NAS box will be used for lab only. I also recovered some parts from the old box, but added some SSD’s. The Mini-NAS will be used also as an ESXi box. While the Mini-ITX boards are [...]Read the full post Building NAS Box With SoftNAS at ESX Virtualization.   Check Out This Free Tool...

There are some tips I’d like to share when it comes to speed up a blog. A blog that takes long time to load is usually not a good way to satisfy your visitors. What happens is rather the bad – your readers will escape as fast as they can from page. And If they’re [...]Read the full post 5 Tips to Speed Up WordPress Blog at ESX Virtualization.   Check Out This Free Download...

How-to Install VMware Tools in Ubuntu if you’re new and don’t know the basic Linux commands? Just follow this article and the video. In this video you’ll see the two approaches of installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu based systems. First of all, the demo video from VMware KBTV shows the process while running the Ubuntu VM through VMware [...]Read the full post How-to Install VM...

In the “I wish the Internet had an actual correct answer” category comes a question from a Windows colleague trying to build software on Linux. He asks “I’m trying to do some web performance testing and I compiled weighttp and the libev libraries, which worked fine, but when I try to run the program it gives me the following error.” weighttp: error while loading sha...

VMware Converter is a great tool to convert Physical systems to virtual. Usually used for that purposes, in some scenarios, it can be used as poor man’s DR plan. I’ll show you how to use VMware Converter to synchronize changes when V2V, and so actually keep another copy of that VM on another (Free) ESXi [...]Read the full post How to use VMware Converter to Synchronize changes when V...

If you are using WordPress as a primary tool for writing blog posts, you might want to have a look at those 5 Tips for WordPress beginners. I use WordPress since 4-5 years now, and I still learn new stuff. Not only because that the blogging platform is constantly evolving, but also because I jumped into the writing without [...]Read the full post 5 Tips for WordPress Beginners at ESX Virtua...

I needed to renumber one of my VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 instances and it’s not immediately clear how to do it. It isn’t like the other virtual appliances VMware delivers. Here’s how I got it done, with some encouragement from Matt H. in VMware Support. It also seems to me someone wrote this up recently, but I could not find it. If that was you please leave me a com...

When you start a new blog, there is things that you have to do right after installing. WordPress installation is easy to do and most of the time it’s even provided by your hosting provider. But before start pumping out some content, let’s have a look what necessary steps you should take. TOP 5 things [...]Read the full post TOP 5 things to do after installing WordPress at ESX Virtua...

Thin provisioned disks grow up with the time. When you work with a thin disk provisionned VM, you are copying new files into a VM, then deleting them, again and again, this process grow the thin disks over time. If you delete files from within the VM wanting to gain the space back, it just [...]Read the full post How-to Reduce VMDK size: VMware Converter at ESX Virtualization.   Check Out T...

Nested ESXi technology is fascinating. In my recent article Nested vSphere Lab -Ideas? , I was thinking about what hardware, or which way to go for a nested lab. By using nested virtualization It’s great way to learn more about those virtualization technologies, without ruining yourself. Not only you can learn about VMware but also Hyper-V. [...]Read the full post How to check if your hos...

I’ve had this “problem” with VMware Converter standalone 5.0.1 since a while, but I was just not paying attention to it since it wasn’t blocking. Just annoying  What I’m talking about? When running the VMware Converter software, it showed the File menus and labels in French. I’m running English localized Windows 7 x64 system. Not [...]Read the full post VMwar...

RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome enables you to follow your favorite sites within Chrome browser. It installs from the Google Store as a one click. You can get instantly notified when a website present in your list updates its content. The notification can be easily turned On or Off, because it can be disturbing to [...]Read the full post RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome – cool extensio...

In this article you’ll learn how to configure VMware High Availability (HA) cluster. It’s not in depth article about HA, but gives you enough knowledge and get things running. You could already read my article VMware HA cluster –  how it works with an introductory video from VMware TechPub. VMware HA components changed in vSphere 5 where the AAM agent (automated availability...

PVSCSI adapters are supported from vSphere 4.1 U1 for boot disks. You can create and install VM with boot disk based on PVSCSI adapter directly, with this how-to article. To benefit the fastest disk performance, and install the OS directly by using the PVSCSI adapter,  you’ll need to follow some guidelines, because W2008 or W2012 server Installation ISOs don’t provide the PVSCSI dr...

This is a second part of VMware Mirage setup in my lab. I’m testing (and documenting) the solution for my own needs, and because I’m quite hooked by the possibility to have a DR solution which enables to recover the whole settings done on desktop computer, with files etc, in case the computer crashes or gets stolen. Also the migration possibilities from Windows XP to Windows 7 looks ...

Vmware Mirage has been demoed during the latest VMworld 2012 in Barcelona. I have attended and also I did an interview with a demo there with Tom Nikl. If you have missed that, you can read the original article here – VMware Mirage – VMworld Barcelona Demo. VMware Mirage Architecture is composed from several components which each of those is installed on particular place – in t...

Post from www.vladan.fr Today I’ll be talking about Wordfence Security Plugin for Wordpres, which enables you to not only secure your WordPress blog or website, but also get rid of Spyware or virus which infected your DB or core WordPress files. This plugin is a fully featured free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, virus scanning, real-time traffic with geolo...

Post from www.vladan.fr How-to run nested Hyper-V 2012 Server on latest version of ESXi 5.1 If you want to test the latest Microsoft Hyper-V running as a VM on ESXi 5.1 free version, you might run into a following error: “Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running.” when trying to install the Hyper-V role. In ESXi 5.1 free version the tweak slightly changed (comp...