Tag: "VMware"

Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick
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Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick

In some cases while working in your VMware environment it’s very important to know what type of virtual disk you’re working with. A few of [ continue reading... ]

Forcing a virtual machine to power off in VMware Fusion
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Forcing a virtual machine to power off in VMware Fusion

Are you using VMware Fusion, and have one of the following symptoms: A virtual machine is not responding during the shut down process You cannot [ continue reading... ]

VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR
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VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR

VMware recently sent out the following vCenter security announcement: 1. Summary Updated Java JRE packages address several security issues. 2. Relevant releases Virtual Center 2.5 [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi Removing the Landing Welcome Page
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VMware ESXi Removing the Landing Welcome Page

Recently in the VMware Communities lamw posted a good tutorial on one of the methods available to remove the VMware ESXi Landing Welcome Page. You [ continue reading... ]

VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar
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VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1. Slated for the Webinar is: Teleportation Speedups [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors
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VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors

Today at work we ran into quite a crappy issue, which thankfully I read about a few days ago. We started having some guests that [ continue reading... ]

VirtualBox 3.0.0 OSE Release – openSUSE
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VirtualBox 3.0.0 OSE Release – openSUSE

Looking to replace VMware Workstation with a free open source application? Well, VirtualBox is the application for you. Recently VirtualBox released version 3.0.0 which has [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi: Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled
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VMware ESXi: Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled

So today I installed the first of many VMware ESXi boxes that I had shipped in. These boxes are diskless running on ESXi via USB [ continue reading... ]

Allow VMWare Server to load after reboot without having to rerun vmware-config.pl
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Allow VMWare Server to load after reboot without having to rerun vmware-config.pl

After installing VMWare server 2.x onto OpenSuse servers/workstations, it was necessary to run vmware-config.pl after every reboot to get VMWare to load correctly, and behave [ continue reading... ]

Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0
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Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0

So the time has come. OpenSUSE is now in release canidate cycle, and VMWare has released VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 which will work on openSUSE 11.0 [ continue reading... ]

My VMWare VCP 3.0 Notes
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My VMWare VCP 3.0 Notes

Many people have contacted me asking for some notes on the ESX 3.0 VCP Test. I know the test is no longer a VCP 3.0 [ continue reading... ]

Installing Patches on your ESX Server
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Installing Patches on your ESX Server

VMWare releases patches for ESX quite often, and it can get tiring installing them all the time one by one. So I wrote a wiki [ continue reading... ]

Installing VMWare Workstation on openSUSE 10.3
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Installing VMWare Workstation on openSUSE 10.3

Well, since I have been getting tons of hits on this page, I figured i’d blog it and let people know that it actually exists. [ continue reading... ]

Virtual Center Client for Linux Native
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Virtual Center Client for Linux Native

So, I was talking with a VMWare Personell today and they leaked that the next major release of VC (possibly 3.0?) will have a full [ continue reading... ]

Finished my VCP test – Passed
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Finished my VCP test – Passed

Well, finished my VCP test and passed it with a 89. I wish I would have studied a little and understood what would be on [ continue reading... ]