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VMWare: how to upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ October 15, 2010 / 2 Comments

I am running several VMWare ESXi4 servers and I wanted to upgrade them to the latest release of ESXi4.1. The following steps I used to achieve this job in less than 5 minutes. Please make sure you installed vSpere CLI and download the upgrade package on you system before you...

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VMWare: how to install Windows 7 from USB media on VMWare Workstation?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ December 16, 2009 / 10 Comments

In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB flash disk drive to install my systems. I also can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does...

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VMWare: why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ November 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7? Why Choose VMware Workstation? Check out this cool video from the VMWare site. The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did a great job! The...

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VMWare: Failed to start VMware VirtualCenter Server service?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ July 16, 2009 / 3 Comments

My Openfiler iSCSI SAN failed and all virtual machines on my Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot the “VMWare VirtualCenter Server” service failed to start showing the following error message: I opened Windows Explorer, browsed to to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs and opened latest vpxd-XX.log log...

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Veeam: Veeam Monitor Free Edition 4.0

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ June 9, 2009 / 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...

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VMWare: how to set static MAC address ESX?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ April 21, 2009 / 12 Comments

Last week I planned to migrate some virtual machines running on a VMWare Server 1.x Windows host to aVMWare ESX 3.5i host. One of the vm’s is running as license server and the registration key was registered by using the MAC of the network interface. I had to keep the...

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Windows 7 Beta: What’s new in Win7?

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ January 15, 2009 / Leave a comment

Finally after 2,5 year Windows Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process 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...

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VMWare ESX: Extend Windows Server 2008 Basic volume hard disk

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ September 30, 2008 / 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...

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VMWare ESX: Virtual Hard Disk FULL

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ September 28, 2008 / 1 Comment

Recently I was working to move a virtual machine test network to production. Before bringing this virtual machine into production I wanted to run the latest updates and during that process my virtual hard disk become full. When I created this virtual machine I configured the initial disk space 6GB....

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VMWare ESX3i: FREE

Posted by Ivan Versluis
/ August 13, 2008 / Leave a comment

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...

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