I just noticed that vSphere has been added to the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program:
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Products that have passed the SVVP requirements for Windows Server 2008 R2 are considered supported on Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000 Server SP4 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 and later Service Packs, both x86 32-bit, and x64 64-bit.
Might come in handy [...]
One of my customers recently asked if it was possible to change the time-out for a power state change, at the same time this question was asked and answered on an internal mailing list. I thought it would be nice to document it. An example of a power state change task would be the shutdown [...]
Yesterday I posted about the article on the hostd, vpxa and vpxd log file options. Today another KB article has been released to setup a rotation scheme for the VM’s log file: vmware.log. Might be worth checking it out and setting it up. You need to change the VM’s vmx file for this to work [...]
Over the last couple of months I gathered the following tweaks for a better performance insight the virtual machine, besides disabling / uninstalling useless services and devices:
Disable the pre-logon screensaver:
Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive” to 0.
Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s [...]
I’m not the only one who thinks that the Storage VMotion interface is a burden. A couple of scripting wizards started creating a decent interface for the Storage VMotion script, which definitely come in handy. Check them out:
Dominic of VMProfessional created an additional perl script to make storage vmotion a bit easier. It works very [...]
When live migrating from ESX 3.0.2 to ESX 3.5 VMware gives an error:”Migration will cause the virtual machine’s configuration to be modified, to preserve the CPU feature requirements for its guest OS.” This error indicates that the .vmx file is about to be changed.
I was trying to convert the great Nostalgia Virtual Appliance to a VMware Workstation compatible format but just copying didn’t work. I did the following to get this thing running directly under VMware Workstation 6.02:
I exported the Nostalgia VM from VirtualCenter 2.5 into an OVF format.
Copied the OVF files to my PC(d:\ovftools).
Downloaded the OVF Tool [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide