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New Blog Article: Making Hash Sets from VMware Virtual Machines
I just posted a new blog article: Making Hash Sets from VMware Virtual Machines | TechExams.net Blogs It was meant to be a forensics article on making hashsets, but it ended up having a lot of information about the vmware-mount utility too.
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Hyper-V and VHDs for Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hypervisor (not Hyper-V role on windows server 2008 ) is free to use. There are some VHDs for Windows Server 2008 for evaluation/trial. Do these VHDs work with the Hyper-V Server 2008 as well as Hyper-V role? I thought even Virtual PC can run VHDs? Has anyone been using Hyper-V Server 2008…
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ESXi server build
Say that i'm going to purchase a server or two. I know the type of hardware i'm looking for in general however can anyone suggest a brand? I've been looking at Dell Poweredge servers for a bit and was recently looking at HP Proliant ones as well. Is one going to be more ESXi compatible than the other? Any suggestions on a…
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Ideal lab with an eye on security
Hey all, I wanted some opinions on what the ideal lab would be for someone with an eye on security. I know I have many milestones I must hit before I get that coveted entry level security position, but I want the best possible lab to learn the things I will need to know on my journey. I want something that I can do sys…
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virtual lab, more info needed
Ok, so I have decided that I will be using ESXi 4.1 as my virtualization choice. I am now in the stages of building a white box (or 2 ). I have been reading about people using openfiler. Now, is this something that you would use as network storage to avoid using actual HDD's in the white boxes? Is that feasible? for…
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Setting up a learning lab at home for <$$
I want to set up a lab at home for my MCITP-EA. I have a PC which I could use (was my Win Home Server), but it's only got a Celeron D and 1 Gb memory (DDR2 4300). I want to put vSphere ESXi on it, and a handful of 2K8 servers. I have 4x SATA drives so I will put a VM on each drive to keep IO speed up. Questions: 1. How…
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Any ideas on how i can back up my vmdk files?
we're running ESX 3.5 with the old VCB utility. problem is, from what i understand we need a backup utility onsite to copy the snapshots. unfortunately we backup off site, so there is nothing. is there a way to manually copy them over? i just bough a 5.5Tb Iomega storage device for this very purpose. i will be upgrading to…
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setting up a PC for labbing need VM advice
Hey all, I am going to be setting my second PC up for VM labbing. The specs are as follows: core 2 duo Q6600 8gb ram 7200 RPM 500gb HDD decent video card how many servers do you think I can run with this hardware? at least 2 servers will be actual, daily use servers, while the others would be for labbing purposes. I am…
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HELP on vmware raid 1 rebuild?
hey guys..how long does it take for a raid 1 to rebuild? I mean it has about 350GB to rebuild. We had a drive fail on a vm server. It is raid 1 and I popped same size drive but different manufacturer that shouldnt matter if it is SATA right? look like it is rebuilding but that darn whistle is blowing (alarm) from the raid…
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MCITP: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator
Hi guys it's been a couple years since I didn't post here but now that I'm currently thinking aboout the Hyper-V certification, I was wondering what would be the best path to take. I was planning the following: 1) Exam 70-659 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization 2) Exam 70-669 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2,…
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Hyper-V backup
We are in the process of upgrading all our servers to 2008. 1 machine in particular will be running hyper-v with two virtual servers. Can you guys recommend a good backup system for hyper-v that will provide full-redundancy? Thanks in advance.
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Vmware Academy Program
Hey...does anyone know of any other online accredited course for the vcp besides the one offered at UCSC extension, their next class is full already, on wait list but called and was told there are quite a few people ahead of me. I tried searching the list of participants but cant find one, especially for the same price of…
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Virtualization from ground up
Hello, I am now at the point where the president of the company has asked me to create a handbook on the deployment of VDI's. To give a little bit of a background on me. I am 20 and have around 3 years exp in I.T professionally. I have done the A+ and CCNA Recently. Never took a class in Microsoft and my duties at my job…
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How much ram do you allocate for a vm?
I dont think our terminal server vm's are performing as well as they should. I was on the vmware boards and they claim you should almost never allocate more than 512mb ram for a windows server vm. i looked at ours and they have over 2.4Gb allocated. at some point, i will be upgrading this from ESX3.x to ESXi 4.1. when i do…
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Vsphere 4.1 NFS I/o error occured
When trying to upload files to my data stores on my netapp filer, I am getting I/O error occured I have already confirmed that its not a permissions problems and it seems to happen with big files. I know this was a known issue at one time with older versions, but I have been scouring the net and haven't found a solution…
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VMWare Workstation on XP(SP3) host Stalling/Freezing Issues
Do any one of you run VMWare workstation or other Virtualization software on XP and notice issues of stalling? I have been using VMWare Workstation on Win 7 and XP and notice intermittent stalling (for ~ 3 to 5 minutes) when any virtual gues os is powered on and running. This happens every few minutes without any spike in…
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How does one becoming VMWare Certified
This may be a dumb question but after looking in regards to VMWare I have a school that is one of the top 10 in the country located close to me with a full paid tuition scholarship, but my ideology of VMWare is quite limited, Do you have to be knowledgable already or can one start from the beginning in regards to this…
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Global Knowledge Vmware 4.1 class review
This was vmware install configure manage 4.1, writing to let everyone know my experience with the class. I took the class in Dallas and it was a pretty good experience, the instructor was knowledgable and as all the GK instructor's I've had so far, he consulted part time and instructed part time. The class and instructor…
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Question about VMWare View -- Security
So working on a possible solution here at work, serving corporate partners with access using VDI. I'm talking about a scale of about 300 external vendors needing access for their employees, to our companies resources. Obviously a lot of these companies are competitors so having them all logging into VDIs and being able to…
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Course: VMware vCloud: Architecting the VMware Cloud
Anyone attended this one ? Just want to see / hear if it is "worth" it :)
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Your Microsoft Virtualization Voucher is Enclosed
So today I got this email - like 4 copies of it... Then I got this email... Of course that email came as I am tring hard to register... None of the codes work. But it seems like something is in the works for the MCITP Virtualization Admin exams! I'm excited.
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VM Workstation discount
Save 20% when you input code "EXCELLENCE" at the checkout* Backed by over a decade of proven engineering, VMware® Workstation is trusted by users worldwide and is the winner of over 50 awards. It’s the most reliable, secure way to run applications in Linux and Windows at the same time on a PC without rebooting. No serious…
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So, work is going to pay for my VMWare VCP class! GK or VMWare Education?
thats a good thing... now, i see there are 2 different companies that do the training. vmware educational services and global knowledge. Does anyone have any experience with either? Which one do you think is better?
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Odd
I just got an email from Prometric, 4 emails actually, each saying "Here is your Microsoft Virtualization voucher number". They send me one for a 2 Exam Pack, 3 Exam Pack , 1 Exam Regular Price and 1 Exam No Second Shot.
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VCP-410 passed...
...barely. I took it too lightly and almost failed this thing. But a pass is a pass... and no one is going to take it from me! :) I haven't taken an exam in nearly 2 years. Been way busy, life has been crazy, drama drama drama. Finally, about 10 days ago, I decided that the best thing for me to do, to force me to prep for…
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mcitp:va
any one know the cert requirements for a mcitp:va its not listed on the microsoft web site
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vCloud Director - anyone here using it ?
The whole "vShield" concept confuses me somewhat .. Do you have to configure vShield seperatly or is "all" you have to do is attaching the appliance in vCloud Director when attaching the vCenter ?!?
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70-693 passed
It feels pretty good to be back in the swing of certs again. Passed with a 775 so that was a slight improvement. Definitely need to work on my familiarity with App-V and MED-V though, especially considering the focus of the 70-669.
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Will an external SSD drive be fast enough for the VHD's?
I want to practice doing some virtualization at work but I would need to bring my laptop. I have a 64GB SSD that I can put on an external enclosure, if I keep all my vhds on there and run virtualbox on my laptop, will it be fast enough to do it decently well? I would need to run Windows server 2008 R2 since I'm practicing…
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VCP4 Second Chance
Got this in an email today. Felt like sharing with everybody. VCP4 Second Chance Waiting for a second chance? Now you’ve got one – for free! VMware Certified Professional Free Second Chance The VMware Certified Professional on vSphere™ 4.0 (VCP4) is one of the most sought-after certifications in the industry. It recognizes…
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VCP4 required vSphere course, help please
Hi All, I am currently involved in an internship at my college working on a project for a VDI implementation. As you know the backbone to VMware VDI is vSphere.. I am going to start work this week on our vSphere and Have seriously been considering the VCP4 certification. I read that training is required in order to sit for…
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VDI solutions. Microsoft, VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc?
Hi All, As the title says: VDI solutions. Microsoft, VMWare View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc? About 6 years ago we had Citrix and to be honest, while it meet basic needs - anything above Office was shocking. Now a days, TS (and the newer VDI) has moved on quite a bit and (I believe) can meet our needs. Added to this I have to…
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Advice on Taking VCP410
I have been working with ESX3.5 for some time now and I have taken the required course. I am scheduled to take the VCP410 here in about a month and I have been studying for about a month, but with so many study guides out there I am worried I am not using a good study guide. I am using the VMware Certified Professional on…
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vSphere 5
VMware previews vSphere 5 at Partner Exchange Got this in a email today. Figured I would share.
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Need some advice_ Security+ or VCP4
Dudes, I just finished passing my Net+ and have a bit of a situation that I would like to bounce off of you. It's multiple choice advice and all answers are corrct. Keep in mind when answering that I'm unemployed trying to find work as well. Although, I have a good amount of time to study. Ok, So I just passed net+ and I…
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Former IT company wont give us vCenter password
we have 3 vmware boxes. Apparently the former IT company that was managing this network was using a pc in the server room as the vCenter server. eveything is vsphere 3.5. they wont give us the password for the vcenter account b/c they said its a password they use on all clients and they dont want us to have it. can i…
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Newest MCITP:VA
Just passed the 70-663 today with a 737. Quite excited about it too as I was fully expecting to fail this exam. I don't really have any experience with MED-V and AppV. Fortunately most of the questions could be puzzled out with some knowledge and common sense. I would say overall the tests are about the same level of…
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Experiences with vSphere: Troubleshooting ILT course?
I'm enrolled in this course coming up soon. Has anyone here taken the course? Did it meet your expectations? Were you fully engaged for the entire 4 days for which the class was scheduled? The couple VMware courses I have attended have not fit the typical "yeah, we'll wrap it up early on Friday about lunchtime" that I have…
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Vmware Interview Questions
Hello Everyone, I know, this is one type of questions most experts don't like it. But I want throw this question here. I have almost 3 years relevant experience in Vmware environment. Past 1 year I work in performance Team. So my task will be running behind esxtop for performance issues. Performance Team will be considered…
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VMware Online Academic Store Discounts
This is just to let everyone know that VMware offers student discounts on VMware Workstation 7 (Windows and Linux) and VMware Fusion 3 (Mac) through the VMware Online Academic Store. Workstation 7.1 is currently $113US and comes with VMware ThinApp Starter Edition. An upgrade to 7 from workstation 5 or 6 is $59US. Both are…
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New VMware Desktop Certs
It seems as VMware are publishing new desktop certifications for their VDI solution, View. Look here: VMware Certified Associate 4 - Desktop Yet another cert for us to get :)
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The cons of VMWare?
With the prevalent use of virtualization in the marketplace and it's proven worth I find it difficult to understand why some still doubt it. Still I think it's always good to know your weaknesses and I have been looking at VMWare since it's the big one. Most times the only con I hear against VMWare is the price. Now while…
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VMware Partner Exchange 2011
Good Morning! VMware Partner Exchange 2011 is right around the corner and thankfully is a few hours south of me in Orlando Florida. My question, are any of the TE'rs attending partner exchange this year? Myself and one of my colleagues will be there since we were both busy doing deployments during VMWorld 2010. Not quite…
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Best way to connect to virtualized servers?
kind of a stupid question, but how do you connect to virtualized servers for every day management? rdp just like a "normal" server? vmware client? how about somehting like dameware?
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Install configure manage or boot camp
For your vmware training which one did you take or suggest?
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I need a crash course!
Hey folks, This is going to seem silly, but I'm hoping this is the right place to ask -- and if it isn't, I apologize. Basically, I recently got this great job with an IT company that focuses on hosting and cloud technologies. I have always been pretty good and understanding personal computing (tech, hardware,…
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Securing vms from other vms - vmware
Besides IPTables or VLAN splitting is there any products or ways to make it so if one vm would become infected or compromised it would not have the ability to affect others?
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Online VCP certification class.
Hi Beside the UC Santa Cruz Extension does anybody know any other online schools that offers the training to get the VCP certification. The community college in Canada is offering the class but it’s going to be $4000. I’m looking for a cheaper alternative. Thanks
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Best Virtualization Solution
I am in process of putting a virtualization plan in place. Wondering, from pure virtualization perspective, which hardware vendor provides the best virtualization solution. Will like to know if any have had any experiences using virtualization on DELL hardware, SUN, HP or IBM. Also wondering, if any of you were able to get…
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Hyper-V anyone?
Who here works in a Hyper-V environment?
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vNetworks seem to be the most confusing topic so far...
multi paths, port groups, vswitches, cisco nexus, integration with physical networks etc.... have you guys found this to be the most complex topic? question: If my vswitch has different vlans, how is the physical switch configured to indicate that?
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vSphere Snapshots + changed data
Always wondered .. when you hit "Snapshot" - at which point is the data included in the snapshot - the second you hit start or only once it is actually finished ?
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Upgrading ESXi from 4.0 to 4.1?
I've been using ESXi for a year now. The only thing I used it for was for creating VM's and getting some practice using vSphere. The main purpose of upgrading is I would like to use a Linux VM with some USB wireless adapter and maybe some Jumbo Frames support. I was wanting to follow this URL. How to Update the Vmware ESXi…
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Virtual lab issue for 70-640
Hello All - I am waffling on where to put this thread, in the MS 2008 general or in the virtualization forum. I tossed a coin and the Virtualization won. Here is my problem. I created a Vmware Workstation 7 Team of 4 VM's for my70-640, 642, and 646 exams. I created the team using the LAN 1 setting so all 4 machines can…
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VCP 4 in a month...
So, those of you who have taken it, is it possible to study for and pass the VCP4 in a month? I'd be taking the class online, I have a server or two i can work with some (with vcenter essential, not the full version) and would love some input on books etc to get me going. I do work fulltime... I've been using ESXi 3.5 for…
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Passed VCAP4-DCD (VDCD411)
Sat the BETA exam in November and got the pass results tonight. Exam Results: I?m a VCAP4-DCD and VCDX4 boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist Exam experience: VMware VCAP4-DCD BETA Exam Experience boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist
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Virtual Routing
Anyone know of any free virtual routing solutions? I am trying to setup seperate networks at home and want to enable routing in order to mimic different scenarios (trusts, vpns) from seperare networks. I have found FreeSCO, but it seems HyperV isnt supported. Anyone else have anything?
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Cisco UCS Questions
Anyone familiar with the Cisco UCS products? Anyone work with them at all? I am entertaining a possible job with a Cisco spinoff and they use a lot of Cisco UCS products but I have no experience with them. I'm pretty pro with the routing and switching side, but have no experience with UCS. So some insight on the ease of…
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All VM Guest Console displays as blank
Hi guys, I am trying to find out why one of our ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 is not able to show GUI/Console of all VM Guests, we currently have 7 VM Guests hosted on this ESX server none of them displays the GUI/Console. Thanks in advance for your help.
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DNS in VMware does not work
Hi I've got small problem, I am fairly new when it comes to virtual servers. I have virtualized windows server 2003 on a client. If I would create a host record in DNS in a virtual server, example: name:test FQDN: test.apple.com IP address: 192.168.1.10 I can't ping test ( or FQDN) If I would do the same thing on a…
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Another n00b storage question....
im having trouble differentiating between datastores, disk to disk storage, the physical servers the vm's live on and storage appliances like EMC's Clariion etc products. datastores = luns that are sections of the hard drives the ESX host is installed on? disk to disk storage = a seperate lan (iscsi) configured to allow…
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Trainsignal "VMware vSphere Troubleshooting Training"
Did someone buy this already ? I do have all the other ones, but I am just wondering how good this one is regardles :)
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Need some help- 4 VMs
Ok, well I dont know where else to ask this question.. I want to run 4 VM's but i am not sure which VMWare to use.. so many different types you can download ..like Vsphere? the VM's will be cisco, like call manager for example. Additonally, if anyone has some input on the hardware specs i need to build a server, it would…
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Very slow installation of RHEL5 on Workstation
For some reason it's taking over 30 minutes to install RHEL5 in VMware Workstation 7.1 (in comparison it only took 10 minutes to install RHEL5 in VirtualBox on my laptop with much lower specs). Any ideas? (storing the VM on my 1.5 TB drive that I have dedicated for VMs) UPDATE: It's taking over an hour now. I don't have a…
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virt-v2v
Anyone used this before? I'm about to get deep into it, testing out its functionality. Why am I using it? I have tons of physical machines I want to be able to put into RHEV. However, RHEV doesn't have a P2V method. So I'm using VMware converter to create a VM, using virt-v2v to convert it to KVM, then importing it into…
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Goofy VMWare Player Question
I know some of you are sages with VMWare and old OSes. . . so how did you get SVGA working with Windows 3.11? I've tried the MS drivers, the patches, a few other card drivers. . . no love. Running on Ubuntu 9.04, latest VMWare Player, and the underlying DOS in the VM is 6.22. Any help with me getting through my…
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How many college credits is the VCP-410 worth?
Okay another VCP question. My employer is willing to bump my pay per six college credits accrued. We worked out a way to cross reference all the certs I'm interested in except for the VCP. I'm currently getting three credits per Comptia cert, and what little information I can find on the internet colleges are giving…
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Problems accessing physical HDD from VM
Ok folks, I have Workstation 7.1.1 and need to be able to access my physical HDD from a guest OS. The physical OS is Win 7 64-bit and the guest OS is 2008 R2. When I go in to add a new HD to the guest, it let me add it but just after POST, the VM throws me the error you can see in the attachment. And then I have to kill…
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Question about user storage and vSphere (or Hyper-V)
if you have a virtualized environment and are using a SAN for all storage, how do users save docs etc to their home directories? in a "regular" client/server environment, as admin, you can set it up via gpo so they can just auto save to their home dir, but thats on a physical server. how do you set something up if the…
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setting up RRAS in vmware workstation
Hey guys, I am trying to setup a lab for studying on the 70-293/294 exam and I have workstation 7 with 2 W2k3 VM's and 2 W2k3 Ent setup. My scenario is this: I wanted to make 1 w2k3 standard vm my primary VM as a gateway utilizing RRAS to do this but from my reading so far, I don't know if this is possible with RRAS or…
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VMware Tools update OS Command Injection
"VMware Server Infrastructure Web Access is prone to remote command execution vulnerability because the software fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input." "When Updating the VMTools on a certain Guest Virtual Machine, a command injection attack can be executed if specially crafted parameters are sent. Successful…
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Retreive Lun type information using PowerCLI - ESXi 4.0
Need help chums, I need to retrieve a full list of pre-configured LUN information and sort by Lunid. I just cant seem to get anything working at all. Anyone got anything pre-configured they think might help?
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"Hyper-V Error"
Hi, I have Asus M2N68-AM PLUS Motherboard with Amd sempron 145 processor-64 bit.well esx server is working fine on this pc.what when i trying to install hyper its showing error here is screen shot for your reference i already test with Amd hyper-v compatibility test its showing ok there . thanks Anuj MCSE,CCNA,NETWORK+…
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VMWare vs Hyper-V
I've had VMWare for a year now running without issues, in a totally redundant setup. However now I am trying to get some addition blades licenses for VMWare which my director has considered too expensive. Therefore I guess I'm planning on migrating from VMWare to Hyper-V. Has anyone done this or worked with the two? I am…
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Some basic Help needed with Hyper-V
Hi, We have two hyper-V production servers at work. I'm trying to learn a bit more about Hyper-v, so I've added a spare server to the domain (which i can mess about with with no fear of affecting the other servers) after setting it on a static ip address, added the hyper-v role. All seemed OK. This Server is fitted with…
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Hyper-V hardware recommendations
Hi everyone, let me start by saying that my experience with any kind of virtualization is fairly limited so please bare with me. We are a small office and have recently been given an opportunity to purchase a new server. The only requirement is that this server run SQL workgroup server 2008 with 15 CALs. We were given a…
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Hyper V guest (using USB port)
I've got server 2008 installed with hyper V and was wondering if you can set it up so the guest OS can use the selected USB ports, What i'd like to do is have a guest be a console server for some Cisco equipment, so the USB ports selected would only ever be used by the guest. Anyone know how this is done?
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ESXI commands for networking / raid type
esxcfg-vswif -i 192.168.1.55 -n 255.255.255.0 vswf0 is this the command I used to change the nic card settings on the unix command line? how do I know the syntax is right for my nic card? and how do I check the TCP/IP settings on my esx box? it does have two IP addresses and when the vm was installed I believe the IP…
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Internal Virtualization
I am new to virtualization and I am working on putting an Internal Virtualization plan in place. I will greatly appreciate if you could help me understand, Under what circumstances is VMWare Virtualization and/or RHEV and/or Xen and/or Microsoft Hyper V is better over the rest. Also, is it reasonable to assume, all that…
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VMware Workstation on Sale for $133 until Dec 1st, 2010
For those who are interested, VMware Workstation is on sale, down from $189+tax. It even comes with a lite version of ThinApp! Enjoy!
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Passed VCP-410
I had originally planned to take this test next Tuesday and use the weekend to for some last minute preparations, but that changed with an interview request for tomorrow. I have already been to the class back in February (Company Paid) and spearheaded the upgrade of my company's current infrastructure from ESX 3.5 with…
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VMware Academic Alliance finally available close to me!
I caught wind of a local technical college nearby gearing up to offer a VMware class for students desiring to earn the VCP certification a couple of months ago. I quickly did some research to determine who was in charge of the program and made contact to express my interest. Just a week or so ago, they informed me all was…
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VMWare vs. Citrix
Hey guys, I just started a consulting gig in which myself and a Vmware expert are going to be setting up HP Blade servers and workstations in a lab environment for the purpose of evaluating the pro's & con's of a Vmware VDI solution vs. a Citrix VDI solution. All well and good and very exciting right? Well it is except for…
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VMware Career Opportunities - Palo Alto, CA
[FONT="]I am posting [/FONT][FONT="]with permission from JDMurray in relation to current career opportunities within VMware. VMware, the technology leader in virtualization and cloud technologies, is putting together a new Product Security Division and are looking for the initial talent to help shape and drive this…
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does NCQ affect disk I/O performance?
I'm studying storage solutions (this is all brand new to me) and also learning about virtualization at the same time. So much that I don't know!! I'm running my SATA drives in my ESXi server in IDE mode because my SATA controller isn't recognized otherwise. I've learned that when you use SATA drives this way you lose hot…
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Solaris on SPARC emulator- anything besides QEMU but for a home lab?
For purely educational purposes I am looking for a way to lab Solaris 10 on SPARC architecture without actually owning a SPARC machine. What are my options beside QEMU? QEMU can emulate SPARC architecture (to a certain extent) but installing Solaris for SPARC under QEMU proved impossible (OpenBIOS doesn't support Solaris…
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VMware VCAP exam demos
VMware have released demos of the VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD exams, here's my blog post including links to the demos: VMware Training and Certification: VCAP exams user interface demos
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Finally took VCP410
Finally (my god this has been hanging round my neck so long) I got round to taking VCP410 today. I was stunned just how difficult this exam was, I had to check that I was actually doing the right exam I know that I have had flu for the last week and I had a nasty head ache during the exam but it seemed really tough. I am…
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VMs dissappearing?
hey guys have you ever had vms dissappear or say server innaccessible and you find out the server vm is gone from the data store? we have esxi 3.5 and I know I made some clones and they are gone from the data store? is this normal? and how is this happening. I have not been on the system? my clones are either show…
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convert standalone?
hey guys **** question even though the converter program says Convert Standalone it means I can convert a say domain server or mail server that is part of a domain to a vm right? I want to convert a Global catalog server and mail server that are of course part of our domain to a vm for the free esxi version. this is…
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Anyone here using SRM's iControl API to F5 LTM/GTM?
Just wondering if anyone here has performed any POC's on this integration in a multi datacenter application. This is something i am very interested in and just wondering who else out there is working with this.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Anyone have experience using the KVM version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (the latest one)? I'm about to make a serious attempt at using this and it appears it has all the great features of VMware, minus a few big ones like site recovery manager and a P2V converter (I mean really, wtf, no P2V?). There are some big…
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vmware workstation for labs
For those of you who use vmware workstation to run your labs, what kind of limitations have you run in to? How's the performance? How many VMs have you managed to have running simultaneously? Platform is Windows 7. Thanks for your tips!
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Passed VCAP-DCA (VCDCA410)
Sat the BETA exam in June and got the pass results last night. Exam Results: I’m a VCAP4-DCA boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist Exam experience: VMware VCAP4-DCA BETA Exam Experience boche.net – VMware Virtualization Evangelist
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VCAP4-DCA pre-exam survey
What is that all about? Is that some sort of mini test and if failed, you won't be able to schedule the exam ?!? I just notice that it says you can do that only once?
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Passed VCP 410
Well I finally got this one in the bag. Failed it the first time, 284. I studied for 2 weeks after that. Passed the second time, 332. With out a doubt the hardest IT exam I've taken so far. Used CBT Nuggets, Borg study notes, SLOG study note links and every VMware document I could find. I made a big mistake studying for…
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SAS on ESXI3.5 server comman line ?
Hey Linux gurus, is there a command I can run on our ESXI3.5 server that I can see exactly what kind of cards say NIC, SATA/SAS cards it is running off of the motherboard? I mean vs me opening up the case and look at the device. Some of the daughter boards are upside down and I would physically have to remove the board to…
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Problem With VM
Hi, I tried to use VMWare to do some labs on my Sony Vaio CW with Processor T6600 (WIN7) and everytime I tried to install Win server 2008 it won't let me do it and says there is something wrong with my hardware. I just tried VirtualBox and got the same problem. So I was wondering if anyone faced this problem before and…
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Distr. Power Management
Has anyone got DPM to work on VMWare 4? I get as far as editing the IPMI settings and it just times out. I first tried configuring an IP address and credentials on the BMC but the Vclient doesn't pick it up. Turns out I couldn't ping it from anywhere, including locally. The ESX host (IBM x3850 M2) has an RSAII card, so I…
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Clustering Hyper-V VM's
Hello Everyone, If anyone has any suggestions to my problem below that would be greatly appreciated! My Setup Two hosts running Hyper-V and setup as a cluster. The hosts are tied back to a SAN using Fiber. I have two VM's (one running on each host) that I want to setup as a cluster to failover my DHCP service. It appears I…