The following screenshots explain the GUI steps needed to install Exchange 2010 server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. Before you can install Exchange 2010 IIS and features needs to be installed and enabled first. The following steps will perform these: Start Windows Powershell Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy Reboot After reboot start Windows [...]
In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB disk to install my systems but also I can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does not support to boot from USB removable [...]
VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade? Ultimate Desktop Virtualization Product for Windows 7 Best 3D Graphics Just Got Better with for support Windows Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines Most Advanced Virtualization Platform with up to 4 virtual processors or 4 virtual [...]
My Openfiler SAN died and the virtual machine with Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot the “VMWare VirtualCenter Server” service failed to start with following error message: Event Type: Error Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/14/2009 Time: 10:00:42 AM User: N/A Computer: VC Description: The description [...]
Last night we lost our Openfiler SAN with a “kernel panic” stop message and all virtual machines located on the VMWare ESX cluster were frozen. After I found the problem and I reboot the SAN box; I than encountered another problem on one of our development SQL server. Just after the POST phase a black screen [...]
If you using a OEM Windows installation often there will be a wallpaper set when you login from the console or with Remote Desktop services. For me this is annoying when using RDP session as it is slow to render the wallpaper bitmaps over the internet connection or WAN. I prefer the disable this. Example [...]
June 9, 2009 - 12:04 pm
Tags: esx3i, manage, monitor, Veeam, VMWare
Posted in Veeam | 1 comment
Veeam released latest version of their “Veeam Monitor 4.0 Free Edition for VMware” which is free monitoring tool for ESXi hosts. The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the [...]
April 21, 2009 - 5:14 pm
Tags: address, ESX, howto, mac, static, VMWare
Posted in ESX | 9 comments
Last week I planned to migrate some virtual machines running on a Windows host with VMWare Server 1.x version to VMWare ESX 3.5i host. One of the vm’s is running as license server and the key is registered by using the MAC of the network interface. I had the prerequisite of keeping the MAC address [...]
September 30, 2008 - 4:29 pm
Tags: 2008, basic, disk, extend, server, VMWare, volume, Windows
Posted in ESX | 1 comment
Last week I run into free disk space problem on my Windows Server 2003 virtual machine and today on another virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 I encountered same thing again. The virtual disk was sized for 10GB and only 80MB was free. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft enhanced the [...]
September 28, 2008 - 8:58 pm
Tags: basic, disk, disk full, ESX, extend, howto, resize, virtual machine, VMWare, volume
Posted in ESX, VMWare | 1 comment
I am working to prepare my virtual machine to move it from test network to production. Before bringing this virtual machine to production I wanted to run the latest updates and during the process my virtual hard disk went full ;-(. I sized the vm with 6GB of disk space and yes I run into [...]
