Increasing the size of a disk when a snapshot exists or deleting the wrong folder on your vmfs volume, it’s something that probably has happened to all of us. This usually means that you will either need to edit the current vmdk header file or even recreate it. Although it’s not a difficult task it’s still error prone cause it’s [...]
It must have been Virtual Geek week this week! I guess most of you already know Virtual Geek, and if you didn’t you’ve been missing out on the good stuff. Virtual Geek is being maintained by Chad Sakac of EMC and let’s say there’s a reason why his blog is called “Virtual Geek”. Chad posted a series of blog articles [...]
Being overweight is probably one of the most common problems we face when getting older, and the same actually goes for PC’s. When they age we start to notice that a “bloated” OS just doesn’t cut it anymore. For most companies this usually means that it’s time to replace their desktops for brand new state of the art equipment. Of [...]
I was exploring the next version of ESX / vCenter again today and did a Storage VMotion via the vSphere client. I decided to take a couple of screenshots to get you guys acquainted with the new look/layout. Doing a Storage VMotion via the GUI is nothing spectacular cause we all have used the 3rd party plugins. But changing the [...]
You might wonder why you would want to pre-install the vCenter agent on an ESX box? Well if you have several remote offices which need to be connected to a central vCenter Server it will take a while before these agents are pushed and installed. Especially if the connection between these sites isn’t as fast as most of us are [...]
VMware has just released VMware Workstation 6.5.2. You can find the release notes here. What’s new: Support for New Guest Operating Systems VMware provides support for the following operating systems for Workstation 6.5.2: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 Asianux Server 3.0 Service Pack 1 OpenSUSE 11.1 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS VMware provides experimental support to [...]
I like to welcome vTeardown.com to the blogosphere! Be sure to update your bookmarks and add them to your rss reader, that is if you’re not following PlanetV12n of course. You might already know one member of our team from his very popular VCritical blog. Eric Gray is one of our virtualization management experts and he’s been opening lots of [...]
