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Nic Teaming for Iscsi
Correct me if i am wrong here, my understanding is that when I setup my san on its dedicated gigabit switch that in order to get the connection to my san box up to higher rates I need to use multiple nics and configure my ports to etherchannel? Is this correct and if so don't I have to configure this for the ports coming…
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creating a virtual image
I was wondering is it possible to take an actual hard drive, and make virtualize it so u can use it within Virtual PC or Virtual Server?!? A co-worker has a PC with Windows XP and Office 2007. But he wants to to know if it's possible to make it into an image or whatever so it can be used with in Virtual Server/PC. Thanks,…
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nVidia SATA + 3.5 = Fail
Ugh. I've got a few HP ML115s running as a ESX cluster at home for testing and training purposes. I know its an unsupported configuration by VMware. Its running 3.5u2 and just is unreliable. I've been having some weird issues with the crappy nVidia SATA controller inside. It is supported by ESX and will run mostly okay…
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Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 RTMs
Not too sure if anyone on TE cares about it or uses it in their environment, but the latest version of App-V (formerly SoftGrid) has just RTM'd. This version has been in development almost since Microsoft acquired Softricity 2 years ago and brings awesome features to the table (but still no 64-bit support!). For those of…
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Help with Setup
I have installed Server 2003 as a DC and i am trying to join another server to the Domain, but i cannot even ping the DC!! I have given the DC an ip address of 192.168.0.1/24, DNS = 192.168.0.1, Default Gateway = 192.168.0.1. On the second server i have given the ip address 192.168.0.2/24 Default Gateway 192.168.0.1, with…
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iSCSI and switch high availibility
Hi Could you advice me if this configuration will work? I want to use 4xDL380 G5 (as Hyper-V hosts and clustering) with 2xNIC on each (working in team) for iSCSI network. Servers are connected to two switches DELL PowerConnect 2724. Every NIC from team plugged to different switch. I’m going to use DELL MD3000i with two…
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VMWare Workstation
I am hoping someone can help me. I have Workstation 6 installed and have 3 servers built and running. What i want to do is to take an image of a physical server and import onto on of my virtual servers using the VMWare converter. Do i need to have the drives setup the same as the physical server? If so how do i set up a…
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Citrix XenServer
I'm thinking of looking into Citrix XenServer. Are many of you learning it/using it?
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VMware Workstation In a production environment
I am considering the possiblity of using VMware workstation 6.xx to host our front end mail server and one of our domain controllers. I will host this on our file server (which I will be upgrading to new hardware. I wanted to get everyones opinion on this before I did it, I have used workstation alot and feel like I can…
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jumbo frames on esxi server
hi, We are in the process of converting several servers into vm servers. our process for this is the following: create image of server using acronis use vmware converter to convert image into vmware format use converter to upload the image to the server. the process is uploading images to the esxi server takes a long time…
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Map Virtual Disk
When going to map a Virtual Disk on VMWare Workstation 6 (I am using Vista Ultimate)... I do select the file name (the disk file) and on the Volume text box below it says: The disk file has no volumes. Please select another disk file. How can I associate a volume to a disk file?
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VMWare Virtual Net Settings Help
The other day I had a coworker who (the desktop control people) say brought a lot of people down because he had a misconfigured vmware app on his laptop. I have preached to these guys that they should only be running host-only here at work. this guy is studying for a 2003 cert and is constantly playing with the network…
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Anyone here with good experience on P2V's on the
Enterprise level? I (along with a group) have been tasked with P2V'ing many servers by 10-13-08. I have worked with VMWare for a long time but never P2V'd a server (especially at the enterprise level) or used ESX server. My question to you guys (and gals) is about how long do these typically take? From what I can tell…
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vmware and windows server 2008?
i have vmware version 1.0.1 build-29996 on my xp machine. i installed windows 2003 server on the vmware. but now i have a windows server 2008 cd. i want to install it on vmware to mess around with it. but on the vmware, when i select the os to install, 2003 is the latest. questions: 1. can i pick the 2003 server as the…
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increase hard drive space on vmware
i'm trying to run windows update on my windows 2003 server machine on vmware. but i dedicated to 4 gb for this os installed. now i have about 800 mb free and i need to do a service pack 3 install..but no space...how can i increase hdd size for my windows 2003 machine? if not possible, i guess i have to skip this exercise…
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VirtualCenter
I still don't understand why you have to use Windows to host VirtualCenter. Sooooo annoying...
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Hope you didn't need your VMs today...
http://www.deploylinux.net/matt/2008/08/all-your-vms-belong-to-us.html
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VMware Infrastructure Toolkit - PowerShell goodness!
Control your VI3 environment with PowerShell! http://www.vmware.com/sdk/vitk_win/index.html?ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2006-24,SUNA:en&q=vmware%20powershell Also, make sure you check out the latest PowerGUI, which intregrates PowerGUI into the VI3 Client. www.powergui.org And grab the VMware powerpack, too.…
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W2k8 Svr on VM
Anyone try to install W2K8 SVR using VMware on a Vista OS..! I'm planning to set one up, but want to see if anyone have did something before.
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SUN acquired innotek (VirtuaBox)
...six weeks ago. This slipped under my radar, but I thought I'd post it for anyone else who missed it. SUN's been on a roll with open source lately. First MySQL for $1B, and now this. I wonder what's next. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080212.1.xml
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Solaris Zones - Resource Utilization
Just curious if anyone has used Solaris Zones in the past? I am specifically interested in how I would go about monitoring in real-time the system resources consumed by each zone. All zones share the same resource pool (ie there is no dedicated resources per zone).
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vmware Fusion (Mac) -- access disk on host
Hi... I'm running VMWare Fusion Beta 2 on 10.4 server (dual quad core, 4 gig XServe) and we have a 4 TB XRaid on it. Is there any way the VM (Server 2003 Std 32bit) can access the XRaid directly so I can make file shares on it? In other words, I want to share the XRaid from within the VM. VMWare's method of accessing the…
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VCP-310 tomorrow...
Well, it's been awhile since I've taken a cert test. I think it was the end of January when I finally earned my MCSA. My employer provided both of the VMware classes for me, one in february and one in march. Now, after several months of studying and hands on experience with designing and setting up our environment...I'm…
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Setting up a lab
Hello all, I have a few questions. I'm interested in setting up a lab using VMWare server and I'm confused as to how it uses the host's networking card. I've noticed that there are a few options. If I want it to be it's own private network (for example, own subnet, own ip scheme, while maintaining internet connection) is…
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Optimizing VM performance..
Optimizing VM performance.. We are currently running Virtual PC 2007 on one of our slower boxes for our BES server. Also, our EMC Email Xaminer box is running on VMware. I'm looking to get the optimal performance out of both of these VM's. Any help? ideas?etc? Thanks!
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Lab environment question
Hey guys, I am going to be building my new PC soon (Quad-core, 4 Gig ram etc..) and I want to set up my virtual lab. I was thinking of putting VMWare Server on Vista Ultimate and running my VM's (all in 64 bit mode) Has anyone used VMWare server with Vista Ultimate 64 and does it work? If not what is the best solution? It…
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Virtualization Book
Hello there, I would like to purchase a book on virtualization. my goal is not take any certification on that subject but to help me build and configure a lab for 290 and 291 exams. Any recommendations? Web sites or tech notes? Your help is very much appreciated Cheers!
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VMWare ESXi for free!
Not sure if you guys are aware of this. I only found out because I went to the VMWare forum here in Atlanta last week. Starting today VMWare ESXi is now free.
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VCP salaries continue to rise
Rich Brambley updated the average salary in the US for someone with a VCP on his blog. Nice to see it has continued to rise every 6 months for the last year and a half.
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Virtualization Hardware - help
I've read somewhere, to do efficient virtualization, you need hardware that supports it. I know some intel C2D processors have VT enabled whilst others aren't. Are there any special motherboards for this purpose ? or will any supported motherboard with VT enabled C2D processors do the trick?. what will be the difference…
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can i install VMware ESX 3.5 on a VPC?
Hello people, I try to intall VMware ESX 3.5 on a VPC but give me some error with the NIC not supported, also try on VMware Server and the same. any advice. Thanks
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Review of Train Signal's VMWare training
I posted in my blog my review of Train Signal's VMWare Virtual Server & Workstation Video Training. You can find it at: http://www.techexams.net/blogs/jdmurray/review-of-train-signals-vmware-virtual-server-workstation-video-training
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Server Hardware
I'm thinking about building a decent machine for running VMs on. For the time being it will be a lab machine for testing and learning, but ultimately I'll use it for some personal hosting once I'm more familiar with some of the concepts. I'm thinking core2duo with 4gigs of RAM, but I've never built a computer with the…
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exchange in VM, performace etc
anyone running ms exchange server 2000 or higher in VM environment? If so how many mailboxes and what kind of performance are you seeing?
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Microsoft virtualization cert
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2008/05/29/certification-s-building-7.aspx
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Alternate to VMware?
Sorry if this seems like an odd question but... Are there any alternatives to VMware Workstation? That program is $189 and I am looking to save some money. Thank you!
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MCSE ..VMWARE question
Hi, I intend to learn this MCSE. I am new to this MCSE and VMWare. I have e2160 Intel Dual CPU, 1GB DDR-RAM2, 80GB (divided into 3 partition). I intend to read those MS Press books to prepare for MCSE. I have a few questions. Hope somebody can help me. 1) VMWare Server / VMWare Workstation Which is better to prepare for…
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Storage for Hyper-V
Hi, I have some problems to get information from hardware vendors like HP or DELL so could you please advise me hardware solution for scenario: I’m going to install failover cluster based on Windows 2008 Server for virtual machines – Hyper-V. System will be based on two servers and shared storage. It is necessary that…
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iCore:Container-based virtualization for Windows Destop.Free
Hi, everyone.
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Sun xVM VirtualBox: new open source virtualization software
May 27, 2008 - This week Sun formally launches xVM VirtualBox, new open source virtualization software for personal computers that lets developers easily work on cross-platform applications and virtualized server environments, from any platform they choose. Power users who require multiple platforms to do their work will…
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Building a Virtual ESX Lab
Assuming it is possible! I am imminently planning to build a full ESX server infrastructure within a virtual environment for testing purposes. The plan is to create two or three ESX servers and test high availability functions like VMotion and Storage Motion. I was wondering if anyone else is interested in doing this, or…
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Virtual SAN
Trying to setup a Virtual Lab to test products like VMware’s Vmotion has proved to be difficult without iSCSI HBA interfaces however I have stumbled across something interesting – Xtravirt Virtual SAN which seems to be free. I am not sure exactly what it is, I have literally just found it and hope that it may be the key to…
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Backing up VMWare
What are you guys using to back up VMWare virtual servers? We're running about 5 virtual servers on VMWare Server (Win 2003 32bit SP2) and whenever backupexec "hits" the vmware host, it shuts down all the virtual machines before copying the files. I'm wondering what the best way to back them up is. I would prefer to backup…
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Virtualizing 30 CIS Students
So we have 20-30 students in CIS and we're thinking about giving each student a virtual machine to do their development on. The professor wants the students to be mobile, so they could remote in from anywere. The Virtual Machine would have Visual Studio 2008, Netbeans, MSDN, their LISP interpreter, Prolog interpreter,…
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Xen Training
Has anyone here ever taken a Xen training class? If not, would you take one, and if so what would you expect to learn in a 3-5 day class? (I know I can look at Citrix's site at course outlines, what I'm really looking for are the expectations of technical people that are familiar with virtualization). I have it on good…
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Virtual Private Networks
As per the requirements in the organization we work, we need to allow a private virtual network of all to access the files or web services within their PCs. I browsed the internet to acquire the knowledge on the same but was unable to achieve productive results. Please suggest some software that has the ability to share…
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internet connection on vm machine
hello i need your help i've an hp Desktop machine connected to a Dlink router , the internet connecttion is ok i've added a toshiba laptop connected wirless to the dlink , internet connection is ok the problem when i use a virtual machine created by vmware , i do not have an internet connection on it why ? what i do wrong…
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questions on installing vmware on my company network
i've installed vmware on my work xp machine at my office. i'm planning to install windows 2003 std on the vmware. i'm up to the part where it asked me for my network connection. it has the following option: - use bridge networking - use NAT - use hot-only networking - do not use a network connection i'm installing win2k3…
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VCP -- Course worth the cost?
Hello everyone. I dropped the $3,000 (US) bomb for the VCP (required) class and I was wondering what the thoughts were on this? Personally I don't see why I have to pay for a class to get a certification, but it also seems that Virtualization is what everyone is after as of late and since almost every client that my…
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VMWare and Promiscuous mode.
Hi Guys, I'm a bit of a VMWare n00b so apologies, I just use player and server at a basic level. JD recently recommended a software Virtual Appliance that integrates Snort and a few other tools that require sniffing capabilities. I don't have a lot of time at the moment to check this fully but from this post,…
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VMWare Server: storing virtual machines on external hdd
I'm having a huge problem accessing my virtual machines. Once I install the virtual machines and play around with them everything works great. The virtual machines are loaded into the inventory and I don't have to logon to the local host because everything is done by default. I come back the next day and it asks for…
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New CBT Nuggets VMware 3.5 VCP Certification videos
Just got the email from CBT Nuggets: VMware Infrastructure 3.5 VCP Certification Package Covers VMware Workstation 6, ESX Server 3.5, and Virtual Infrastructure 3 for Exam Prep and On The Job Skills. Includes 20 Videos (8 hours) http://www.cbtnuggets.com/webapp/product?id=441
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VMWare Server: VM Tools Installation
I finally loaded a virtual machine of Windows 2003 which I built from a new virtual machine... My new problem exists because VMWare Server states that I can only install VMTools with the Guest OS running... My problem lies in the fact that I cannot activate this evaluation copy of Windows 2003 without network connectivity.…
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VMWare Consulting and Training Credits
Does anyone have any experience with purchasing these from a reseller? See http://mylearn.vmware.com/lcms/mL_faq/1016/Credits_FAQ_Customers_June.PDF 30 credits are required as a substitute for tuition for the VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5 class. It might be possible to purchase enough credits from a…
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ESX 3.5 now working within Workstation 6.5 beta
The latest VMware Workstation 6.5 beta (build 91182) brings back support for running ESX within a VM (it no longer takes 2 hrs to boot)… http://tinyurl.com/6rq6pu Make sure to read the comments below the post for details on how to improve boot speed (debug folder) and powering on a VM within ESX (within a VM).
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VMWare Server 3 / Vista Home Premium / Admin Account
Has anyone got this to work? I have installed it but when attempting to run VMware Server (VMWare Infrastructure Web Access) firstly it prompts me for a certificate then prompts me for a Username and Password. Having looked through some documentation etc it appears you need to log in with Admin Credentials for the local…
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virtual hard dive size
Ok, I created a solaris vm machine, but I didn't pre allocate any hard drive space. So now that the vm is up and running, I have noticed it used about 6 gigs of total hard drive space. Needless to say that this is not enough. I would like to add at least 2 or 4 more gigs. I didn't allocate any space while initially setting…
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Something to run Windows apps on Mac 10.4
Hi guys.. Our 16-user Mac department would like to start using Quickbooks on their Macintoshes (24" iMac's with Core 2 Duo's and 2 gigs RAM on OS X Tiger). Unfortunately, we only have PC copies Quickbooks available, and don't really want to purchase Mac version. So I don't really know much about virtualizing Windows to run…
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New VMWare VCDX certification announced
VMWare recently announced their new advanced certification called VMWare Certificated Design eXpert. Its purpose is to identify those who are skilled not just in basic VMWare principles, but can also design and deploy Virtual Infrastructure for even enterprise level clients. "There are four core validation components to…
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VCP without hands on?
Im just thinking about VCP. I know you have to go to offical vmware training which is making me just ask a few questions about the whole thing. I can use vmware workstation but i have never used esx server. I have books for esx server and i can get the 60 day trial for a hands on lab. But is it worth going for VCP without…
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Vmware CBT
I hear this guy: http://eliaskhnaser.com/ offers a really good Vmware CBT. From the looks of it, it's the older version of ESX (3.0). I was wondering if anyone has used this to get a good grasp of Vmware? I'm looking to get some training. Infact, i would love to go for VCP, however my office will not cover the cost of the…
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Spec-ing VMWARE hardware
Hey There, I plan to build a virtual server test environment at my home. I read through a few of the threads here and on a few other sites. Some of you mentioned that older hardware (SATA vs SCSI etc) will work with VMWARE workstation or ESX server 3.0 with the right hacks/modifications. The last company I worked for we…
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Cisco WAAS
IN case anyone is interested or is on the WAN optimization front, the Cisco WAAS appliance is coming out with a new version of software in July code named "Davis" Release. This version of code will have capabilites for Virtualization. It can come with Windows Server 2008 installed as a package deal with the new version of…
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Virtualization the way of the future?
I for one think it is because working as a network field technician I've met many IT people commenting on how they are about to implement virtual servers into their current arsenal of servers. Also surprisingly to me virtual networks is actually pretty stable, what do you guys/girls think?
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Your choice of the Host OS?
What is your choice of the Host OS? What is it running on the host os beside VMware? My host OS is XP SP2 with 3 Guest VM. All VM are Server 2003. The Vmware is VMware Server 1.05.
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Best Client Virtualization with old hardware.
I have a: 1.3 GHz AMD Thunderbird Asus MoBo (can’t remember the model right now, it might be a K8N or K8V.) 768 MB RAM 80 gig drive IDE LiteOn DVD-R And I want to put W2k3 and Fedora on virtually. Nothing mission critical I just want the best performance I can get with the old hardware till I upgrade. And so if I change…
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VMware Server 2.0 Beta
Just curious has anyone used this as of yet? I'm installing Ubuntu Server on my VM box tonight and will be trying it out let me know if anyone has any experience with it. :D EDIT: Here's the link check it out if you haven't http://www.vmware.com/beta/server/
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VMware Virtual appliances
How secure are the Virtual Appliances on the VMware website? I was just curious If these OS's have been certified by VMware as not having any viruses or any malicious program.
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Anyone Following VMWare Workstation 6.5?
Particularly: http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/ws/releasenotes_ws65_beta.html The Unity feature looks sick. I guess it's been out in Fusion for the Mac for awhile, but this is the first I've heard of it (I don't use Macs). I didn't completely understand what it was just from their description, but once I looked into it,…
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Server 2008 Hyper V
Has anyone played with Server2008 Hyper V yet ?? I saw it demonstrated at the "heroes happen" roadshow and wanted to give it a try on my Intel dual core processor. It took a lot of fideling and bios settings to get it running and I can now run several os's OK. My problem is my NIC's. My Intel board has a Intel 82566-2…
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What do you think?
Just some things we do at work that might be unique for a small, <90 employees, shop. Just thought I would see what people think. 1 - Early on I created a virtual instance AD domain server. The server isn't up 100% of the time. Maybe once a month. We consider it a disaster recovery tool but the article I took the idea from…
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Citrix XenServer
Has anyone used Citrix XenServer? If so, what do you think of it and does it offer any advantages over the 'usual' suspects?
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Virtualization: Technology Reports from InformationWeek
Here are some interesting InfoWeek articles on virtualization in PDF format: Virtualization: Technology Reports from InformationWeek
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A hard drive each or use a stripe?
I want to run VM images on a new computer that Im going to build. Should I run 2 VMs off one hard disk each (OS on a different disk) or run 2 VMs off a 2 disk stripe (again OS on a different disk). Which would offer better performance? Or would a cheap NAS offer better performance?
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VMware Article
just saw this article, and figured it would be worth posting in the new virtualization forum... VMware focusing on higher tolerance for hardware failure
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Resolve ESX Host name from within Virtual Machine
Ok so you have set up alerting and a particular server alerts lets call this VM1. You RDP to this machine and find a VM Cluster Node is down so you want to restart the VM machine on the ESX host. You look for the details of which ESX host you need....... There isnt any.... How can you resolve the ESX Hostname from within a…
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How to use VMware Player to create your own images
i was looking into how to build your own VM appliance and found this. http://www.linux.com/articles/54411 edited and added this link http://www.vmware.com/appliances/build/how.html
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Need Linux-based Web browser virtual image
I am looking for a Linux distro that has a minimal kernel and uses a Web browser (FireFox) as a command shell. I need to create a virtual appliance that is only used for Web browsing. I'll run the image in VMWare Player or VirtualBox and use it for surfing and experimenting with unsafe Web sites. I do not want to install…
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w2k8 on Cisco WAAS
so what are you all's thoughts about microsoft and cisco virtualizing server 2008 on the WAAS? pretty cool huh!!!
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Yay virtualization forum!!!
Ya know, I was on the way home from work the other day and I was thinking why come techexams.net dosent have a virtulization forum? Lately I've been pondering rather or not to get the VMware VCP Oddly enough I see a new forum and it makes me smile. Virtualization has great potential. I am considering buying two servers to…
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What is your flavor of Infrastructure Virtualization
Not a complicated question. What do you use for virtualization? We are a VMware client.
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VMWare ESX 3.0 Installation
Just wanted to know if anyone came across this issue: I'm trying to install ESX on Dell PowerEdge 2400 at home. When I finish booting from the ESX installation CD, I choose the language, keyboard and installation type (local cdrom). The next screen shows an error message: "CD Not Found: The VMware ESX Server 3 CD was not…
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VMWare group on LinkedIn.com
For people on LinkedIn.com, there is an Official VMWare Virtualization Group group you can join. It is run by people at VMWare and it's a good way to find other "virtual people" with "virtual interests" at LinkedIn.com.