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How to install VMWare Drivers from VMWare Driver ISO for ESXi

May 2, 2012

Last night I was working during non-business hours patching and upgrading several ESXi hosts (HP Blades BL460 G7). Everything was going well, so I thought. However, upon having all patches and update packages installed I noticed that my storage was gone. A quick check on the configuration screen in vCenter revealed that the Emulex NC553i [...]

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VMWare Disk Alignment Issues

February 24, 2012

If you are using VMWare ESX or ESXi in a SAN or NAS environment you might have heard your storage vendor talking about the importance of disk alignment. I do not want to go into too much detail about disk alignment and what it is in exact detail as this has been covered over and [...]

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VMotion fails at 9 Percent and how to fix it

February 15, 2012

VMWare VMotion problems have been reported many times over the years. If you search on Google or on the VMWare online communities you can see that this is a fairly common problem and in most cases points to misconfiguration in user environments. In other cases it has been a bug inside VMWare ESX/ESXi, but those [...]

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vSphere VMFS 5 Upgrade

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 [...]

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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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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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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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