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 [...]
October 27, 2009 - 9:25 pm
Tags: applications, automate, install
Posted in Ninite, Tools | No comments
If you are upgrading to Windows 7 from XP you will need to do a clean install, and installing your favorite apps again is time consuming and annoying. Now you can install your favorite applications while waiting they are installed for you. How many times did you go to all the websites, download, installed and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Finally after 2,5 year Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process was and went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am looking forward to see [...]
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 [...]
August 13, 2008 - 8:07 pm
Tags: 3.5, ESX, free, i, VMWare
Posted in ESX | No comments
Who could ever believe and see VMWare releasing their ESX for free. Last night I read small post on my Windows Mobile device. What is VMware ESXi 3.5? VMware ESXi 3.5 is the industry’s first, thin hypervisor integrated into server hardware. With its next-generation architecture embedded in hardware, VMware ESXi enables a plug-and-play data center [...]
June 29, 2008 - 6:57 pm
Tags: howto, install, linux, Nero, screenshots
Posted in Nero, Ubuntu | 2 comments
Since two weeks I am becoming Ubuntu fan and I am missing some of my windows applications. Nero is one of those and thanks to Nero they ported their burning solution for Linux also. Download the trial from Nero.com website here. Start a new terminal session and run dpkg to install the Linux version of [...]
