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		<title>VMWare: how to upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/1029</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 can start. How to upgrade to VMWare ESXi 4.1? VMWare ESXi4 upgrade to ESXi4.1 video In this demo I am going to upgrade my VMWare ESXi4 server with the latest version of ESXi4.1. I am using the vSpere CLI tools to perform the upgrade job. In less than 5 minutes you should be up and running. Related posts]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare: how to install Windows 7 from USB media on VMWare Workstation?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/911</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 not support to boot from USB removable disks, but there is a workaround to achieve that. Start VMWare Workstation and open the properties of your VM; then create new virtual harddisk and use the physical partition of the inserted USB disk. In following screenshots you can see how I did to get it done: Add Hardware Wizard and add Hard Disk Select &#8220;Use a physical disk&#8220; Select the USB flash drive device &#8220;PhysicalDrive1&#8243;  and &#8220;Use individual partitions&#8220; Select the partition. Specify the Disk File and Finish the configuration of the virtual disk Install Windows 7 Select the language options Install now Accept the license terms Make sure that right partition is selected The installation of Windows 7 will start. Thanks to VMWare Workstation I was able to use the new USB flash drive media to install Windows 7. Burning ISO images to CD/DVD is becoming less popular. I like using the USB flash/disk drives more and  more. Related posts]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare: why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/895</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#160; The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did a great job! The encryption feature &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 3D graphics Just check it out. I am going to test the VMWare 4 hypervisor installation soon. Related posts]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare: Failed to start VMware VirtualCenter Server service?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/846</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Openfiler iSCSI SAN failed and all virtual machines on my Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot the &#8220;VMWare VirtualCenter Server&#8221; 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 file. I found the following error in mine: &#160; I opened C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl folder but it was empty; I searched for rui.crt in C:\ and found two other directories with similar certificate in: C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Converter Enterprise\ssl C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\SSL I copied C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Converter Enterprise\ssl to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl\ and started &#8220;VMware VirtualCenter Server&#8221; service again. Now the service was successfully started. Login with VMWare Virtual Infrastructure client and connect your ESX hosts again. &#160; References http://blog.core-it.com.au/?p=133]]></description>
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		<title>Veeam: Veeam Monitor Free Edition 4.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veeam released latest version of their &#8220;Veeam Monitor 4.0 Free Edition for VMware&#8221; 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 virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird&#8217;s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual ESXi infrastructure. With Veeam Monitor, you can view real-time resource usage data for any virtual infrastructure object or collection of objects, as well as known infrastructure events, all on a single screen. This allows you to finally see your virtual infrastructure as a unified entity, not just a collection of isolated hosts and guests. There are some limitations but fair enough to monitor and manage my ESXi hosts. I don&#8217;t have Virtual Center servers to manage my branch server ESXi systems and Veeam Monitor Free Edition will do all that for me know. For more information click on the links below: Datasheet (PDF) What&#8217;s New in 4.0 (PDF) Some screenshots:]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare: how to set static MAC address ESX?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/787</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 MAC address of this VM. I first read this post. I tried to manually set the MAC address from VMWare client but go the following message: Then I removed the vm from ESX inventory; download the vmx file and changed the ethernet0.addressType to static. I used Notepad+ to change ethernet0.Address = &#8220;01:0C:29:B0:27:E1&#8243; value. I deleted original file from the Datastore and upload the vmx file back. I started the vm again and got the message below: Without an additional setting in the vmx config file you won&#8217;t be able to assign a static MAC address in the range your require. To disable mac address checking before boot add the following line in the vmx file. Thanks to Jason Nash I fixed my problem. http://jasonnash.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/disabling-mac-address-checking-in-vmware/ My working config changes:]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 Beta: What&#8217;s new in Win7?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/700</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 looking forward to see the latest version released. What’s new in Windows 7? If you hadn&#8217;t download Windows 7 Beta than I suggest browsing to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx and get the bits. Anyway I wanted to share my first experience with installing and playing with VMWare Workstation Version: 6.5.1 Build: 126130. It’s simple as it should. Plug and play The installation went smooth and in minutes I was able to run my VMs without hassle. View Full Album]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare ESX: Extend Windows Server 2008 Basic volume hard disk</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/475</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 feature for extending basic disk volumes on the fly. In my previous post I needed to add the virtual disk to another server; assign a drive letter and than run the extend option in diskpart. Within VI client extend the &#34;Hard Disk&#34; in the properties of the virtual machine to desired and planned size and goto Computer Management / Storage / Disk Management, right-click and Refresh. &#160; The additional defined disk space will be shown as &#34;Unallocated&#34;. Right-click on the C:\ volume and choose &#34;Extend Volume&#34;. Follow the wizard and within seconds the basic volume has been extended. Thanks to VMWare ESX and Microsoft Server 2008 our lives as System Engineers is becoming easier. As lesson learned size your virtual environment appropriate and especially the Hard Disk configuration. &#160; Related links: Technet &#8211; Extend a Basic Volume]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare ESX: Virtual Hard Disk FULL</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/474</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. VMWare ESX allows you to extend the virtual disk size on a running virtual machine. How to extend the virtual disk size? Right click on the virtual machine in the VI cleint; choose settings and go to &#8220;Hard Disk 1&#8243; and type new disk size. Click OK. Example of my new Disk Configuration in &#8220;Disk Management&#8221;. To extend the virtual disk we need to go to diskpart and extend the volume. I opened command prompt and opened diskpart; selected the volume and run extend. My virtual hard disk was full and I was not able to extend my basic disk with the additional 2GB. I found the following two solutions how to extend the hard disk. Solution 1 Thanks to Kalpesh Prajapati post I was able to find a solution to my problem. Follow these steps to extend your virtual machine basic hard disk: Shutdown the virtual machine Extend the virtual disk size Add the harddisk to another virtual machine and start it up (second virtual machine) Open command prompt and start diskpart.exe list volumes and select the volume with the disk problem extend the disk Make sure the volume has a drive letter assigned otherwise same warning will be ...]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare ESX3i: FREE</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/466</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 with greater security, reliability and manageability. Requiring no installation and minimal configuration, VMware ESXi accelerates server deployment—IT organizations can take servers from boot-up to running production applications in virtual machines in minutes. List of features is amazing and now we all get them for free. Check the full list here, but these are which I like: Bare-metal architecture Small Footprint with only 32MB Virtualization for storage and support for iSCSI VLAN tagging support Wake-on LAN 64bit support Basically all features I missed with VMWare Server and now getting them for free with ESX3i version. Why is VMware making ESXi free? VMware is making its standalone ESXi hypervisor available at no cost in order to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization. Customers have shown tremendous interest in ESXi due to its innovative architecture, simple setup, and high performance. Allowing IT administrators to obtain VMware ESXi for free enables everyone to gain access to VMware&#8217;s datacenter technology and prove its value in their own companies. I have nothing more to add than just go download the VMware ESXi data sheet for more information and get a free copy of VMware ESXi and try ...]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Workstation 6.04 linux x64 unrecoverable error</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/454</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition 64bit edition and after I installed VMWare Workstation 6.04 Linux x64 edition I got the following error when trying to start my virtual machines sitting on a NTFS USB disk volume. VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!A log file is available in &#8220;/media/USB_DATA/NET-DC-01/vmware.log&#8221;.&#160; Please request support and include the contents of the log file.To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help &#62; About and click &#8220;Collect Support Data&#8221;. You can also run the &#8220;vm-support&#8221; script in the Workstation folder directly.We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. Please click OK and locate the vm file. Open the vmx file with nano or another text editor and add the setting below. Save the file and try to start the virtual machine again. mainMem.useNamedFile = &#8220;FALSE&#8221; This setting doesn&#8217;t use named-file &#8211; use for VMs on USB-disks or other slow disksWindows: useNamedFile= &#8220;FALSE&#8221; causes memory to be backed by the host&#8217;s swap space.Linux: useNamedFile= &#8220;FALSE&#8221; causes a hidden file to be created in a temporary directory, which is immediately deleted when you power off the VM]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 VMWare Tools installing issue</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/445</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I hit my first problem when creating a new JeOS virtual appliance based on Ubuntu. After I mount and extract the VMWare tools; I tried to run the ./vmware-install.pl script and got the warning below. /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config.pl The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again. vmnet vmhgfs vmblock vmmon Execution aborted.&#160; I did not install any VMWare tools before, but somehow these VMWare modules were included in the ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso file. Go to following directory and remove the mentioned directories. cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-virtual/ubuntu ls sudo rm -r vmnet/ sudo rm -r vmhgfs sudo rm -r vmblock sudo rm -r vmmon&#160; That&#8217;s all. Rerun the install script.]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/444</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are curios and interested like I am than the latest VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta is definitely something to download and install on your system. Why Participate in a VMware Beta Program? Here are a few reasons why you should participate in VMware beta programs. Exposure to the next generation features helps you grow your technical skills and understand the direction of the virtualization industry. Ability to prove that the product will work properly in your environment and report areas where it doesn&#8217;t. Prototype your solution during the beta program and be ready for deployment when we reach General Availability. Help shape today&#8217;s product and tomorrow&#8217;s features. Ability to work with VMware engineers on some programs. Problems encountered have a higher probability of being fixed by GA. Join the new beta program for Workstation 6.5 here. New Features in VMware Workstation 6.5: Seamless integration of guest and host applications with Unity Enhanced advanced VM Record and Replay Support for Smart Cards &#38; Smart Card Readers Link state propagation networking Enhanced ACE authoring capabilities Easy Install Option&#8217;s support for Linux Improved 3D graphics Support Release 91182 supports ESX 3.5 and 3i installations For me personally I would like to explore Unity and ESX in virtual machine support features. I like to keep my system as clean as possible and right now I can have one virtual machines hosting all my applications which I use occasionally. I don&#8217;t want to install Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop,&#160; Visual Studio and many others on my ...]]></description>
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		<title>Which Desktop Virtualization Product should I choose?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/398</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desktop Virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the overview below I have summarized small list of supported features of my favorite desktop virtualization products. Hopefully this overview will help you decide which of those you should evaluate. Microsoft has Virtual PC 2007 which is for free but VMWare Workstation and Parallel Workstation have features which are missing in Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual PC 2007.  Parallels Workstation license is $50 and the VMWare Workstation is $190 so depending on your requirements you should be able to make a good choice. For more details check the virtualization/desktop page which has more information. For me personally I would choose VMWare Workstation because of the following reasons: Support of x64 bits virtual machines. The main reason for this you can install Exchange Server 2007 64bit and test the product. I have been running Exchange Server 2007 for 6 months now in a vm guest with 2GB ram and it works great. Support for running ESX server into a virtual machine. I have been testing for a while with ESX server and using the VMWare Workstation solution. It helped me to get more familiarized with the ESX server and it&#8217;s components. ESX3i and ESX3.5 can be installed in a virtual machine with VMWare Workstation but the virtual machines can not be powered on. Update: 2008/11/06 &#8211;&#62; VMWare Workstation 6.5 supports VMWare ESX3.5i and ESX 3.5 to be installed and virtual machines to be started. USB2.0 support. I redirected dozen of USB devices into my virtual machines for testing. One example was having a USB ...]]></description>
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		<title>Failed to lock the file! VMWare virtual disk (vmdk)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I copied one of my Windows XP virtual machine running on a VMWare Server 1.02 system locally to my workstation. After the files were copied I opened the vmx file with VMWare Workstation 6 and received the following error below after trying to start the virtual machine. The virrtual machine contained one snapshot on the VMWare Server. Locate the virtual machine in Windows Explorer and delete any .lck folders Start the virtual machine. If boot process will fail, try to Map the virtual hard disk to Z:\ for example. I then disconnect the virtual hard disk and tried again. The virtual machine boot without any problem and my snapshot was still valid. Deleting the .lck folder saved me a lot of work.]]></description>
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		<title>BitLocker: how to use Bitlocker encryption without TPM or USB?</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/395</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bitlocker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Vista]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to learn how to use Bitlocker encryption. The requirement I had is to enable Bitlocker drive encryption on a virtual machine without a TPM security chip or access to USB devices. Before starting I read the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide from Technet and I found following statement: Using USB removable storage on a virtual machine is not going to work. The only way to get BitLocker working is to change a group policy setting and allow BitLocker to work without a TPM chip and use a floppy disk as storage for the startup key. Floppy disk is available during the Vista boot process when running the system as virtual machine. I was successfully able to run the BitLocker preparation because of the additional volume requirement on my installed system. How to enable BitLocker on a virtual machine without TPM? Install Windows Vista SP1(Enterprise or Ultimate editions) virtual machine Make sure the disk has been partitioned with additional volume. Use the SHIFT+F10 to perform these steps in Vista Setup. create partition primary size=1500 assign letter=S create partition primary assign letter=c If you can&#8217;t partition the hard disk then use the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool. Change the GPO setting. Open Gpedit.msc and locate the “Control Panel Setup:Enable advanced startup options” setting  in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Bitlocker Drive Encryption and configure “Control Panel Setup: Enable advanced startup options”; check Allow Bitlocker without compatible TPM chip and Reboot. Make sure Floppy drive has been configured for the virtual machine and create ...]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare Server: 511 vmware-serverd service is not running.</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/385</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point my Windows based VMWare Server server run out of disk space where couple of important production virtual machines were running. Windows started to complain about low disk space and I had only 32KB space left. I tried to open VMWare Server console and I got the error message below &#8220;511 vmware-serverd service is not running.&#8221; All virtual machines were running except the one which consumed the remaining disk space. To solve this issue I had to: I opened Task Manager and located the remaining processes for the virtual machines. vmware-vmx.exe is an individual process for each of the virtual machines. Two were left and I stopped both vmware-vmx.exe processes. I opened Services.msc console and I then restart the &#8220;VMware Registration Service&#8221; service. After the service was restarted power on task started. All virtual machines were up and running. Killing the process and moving some directories solved the problem with my VMWare Server. This event brings me back to the root cause of why this happened. One of the import things I learned is to size your virtual machines and their disk space. I am going to implement thresholds and notifications with CactiEZ appliance soon.]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Converter 3.0.2 Update 1</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/382</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest version for VMWare Converter has been out since 3rd of December last year and doing the p2v migration yesterday it helped me to quickly decide how to proceed. The scheduled p2v migration took me very long and I decided to use my evaluation cd of Acronis True Image Server.&#160; After six and half hours I copied less than of 20GB of the physical server with VMWare Converter. New features in v3.0.2 update 1 include: Conversion of VMware hardware version 6 products: Workstation 6.x, VMware ACE 2.x, VMware Fusion 1.x, and VMware Player 2.x Conversion of an additional third-party disk image format: Acronis True Image 9 Experimental support for Microsoft Vista 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems Ability to set speed and duplex settings on the network adapter while performing cold cloning migrations, by using the VMware Converter Enterprise Boot CD Support for Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 I was excited to see the direct import from VMWare Converter and tib backups. So I reboot the server; connected the usb disk and created a backup of the two partitions I wanted to convert into a vmware image. The whole process took me less than one hour. One huge tib file was created and than I went to my host machine with VMWare Converter and restarted the import process but this ended with a error (VMWare Converter Import Wizard &#8211; Unable to load the source virtual machine or image. The file may be corrupt, or of an unsupported format)&#8230;. In ...]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare ESX3i Cisco CDP protocol L2 overview</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/374</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) allows ESX Server 3 administrators to determine which Cisco switch port is connected to a given vSwitch. When CDP is enabled for a particular vSwitch, you can view properties of the Cisco switch (such as device ID, software version, and timeout) from the VI Client. You can use the service console command-line interface to enable CDP. &#160; Using this information and without going to the server room and locating the network cable in the rack I was able to configure the interface on the switch real time. The switchport should be set as trunk and for security reasons also configure the allowed vlan&#8217;s. interface GigabitEthernet0/15 description ** ESX-01 Trunk port LAN ** switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,200 switchport mode trunk spanning-tree portfast !]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare Player cmd startup script</title>
		<link>http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/356</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Versluis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever tried to automate the process of having a script or shortcut to automatically start a virtual guest with VMWare Player? After you login you can start VMWare Player and locate the virtual machine or click the recent one but still you need to control this process. Maybe you want to start the virtual machine at system startup with Scheduled Tasks or instruct a user to click on a specific shortcut for a pre-created virtual machine he needs to test. I created a small script which can used for this process. Create new file in notepad and paste the commands below. Make sure the VMWare Player installation path is correct and the location of your VMWare guest. @Echo off REM VMWare Player cmd script for virtual guest startup REM Ivan Versluis @ Networknet.nl REM Email: Ivan.Versluis@networknet.nl REM Date: 29/01/2008 &#34;C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\vmplayer.exe&#34; &#34;C:\VMWareGuests\Server\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmx&#34; The result]]></description>
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