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vSphere VMFS 5 Upgrade

by WHRKIT on December 15, 2011

Eventually you will upgrade your ESX/ESXi environment to ESXi5. With vSphere 5 VMware eliminated the ESX branch of their virtualization products. All future versions will run directly on the hypervisor platform ESXi. The normal upgrade path to vSphere 5 starts with the vCenter Upgrade to vCenter 5. From there you will tackle the different ESX and ESXi hosts. [click to continue…]

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How to install / force migrate ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5

December 5, 2011

With version 4.1 of ESX VMware discontinued the vSphere versions that were based on the Linux Kernel and started offering only vSphere ESXi editions of its popular Virtualization platform. If you are still running your virtualization on version ESX 4.1 or lower you need to upgrade to ESXi if you want to use vSphere 5.

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Is LunarPages really running unsecure, outdated servers?

November 16, 2011

I am doing a lot of work with local clients lately providing SEO Services, Internet Consulting, and other related services. One recent project included to move a static website to WordPress. The client was hosting her website with Lunarpages and so I did not anticipate problems in regards to the environment. Lunarpages has a decent [...]

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How to move a Hyper-V VMM Database to a new SQL Server

November 14, 2011

I had an interesting problem to work last week and wanted to share the knowledge here with you. My problem was to move the database for a VMM Server (Virtual Machine Manager) database from SQL Express to a remotely hosted SQL. As always, there are many ways to do this and after doing some research [...]

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How To Speed Up Your Existing Computer Without Reinstalling Windows

October 27, 2011

Yesterday evening I increased the performance of my Lenovo T500 laptop with just a few steps. The laptop is now booting up in roughly 23 seconds and after logging in (I have setup profiles and password protection) it roughly takes another 7 seconds before everything is fully operational. In the past it took roughly 3 [...]

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VMWare Is Driving Customers To Microsoft Virtualization

July 14, 2011
VMWare Licensing Cost

Yesterday VMWare announced their new licensing scheme vSphere 5 and man, that is like a small bomb went off. The new licensing will definitely add cost to virtualization when using VMware’s products. And with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology slowly catching up – this is the time for any business to re-think their virtualization strategy. This [...]

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Observations from Microsoft Management Summit 2011

March 30, 2011
MMS 2011 Las Vegas

This is my recap of Microsoft’s Management Summit 2011. This posting was initially written on March 25th, but I had not enough time yet to post it earlier. Here we go: I am in the very last session of the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 event in Las Vegas. This Microsoft centric event is a great [...]

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