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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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Virtualization – Some Best Practices

December 2, 2010
Virtualization Best Practices

When using virtualization products like VMWare vSphere (ES) or Microsoft Hyper-V you can always run into issues – be it from a management/administration perspective or from a performance perspective. It can help a lot to put certain procedures and best practices into place early on to assure that your environment is stable and runs at [...]

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VMWare Converter Problems and how I solved them

May 5, 2010
VMWare vCenter

I recently had to P2V (or better V2V) a VMWare VM. The Virtual Machine was sitting on an ESXi host and I wanted to pull it over into a production ESX cluster. At the same time I wanted to shrink the hard drives of the VM – especially the D drive. When the machine was [...]

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VMWare: My Experience with upgrading the Virtual Hardware in ESX 4

March 11, 2010

When moving VMs from an ESX 3.5 cluster to an ESX 4 “vSphere” cluster in VMWare you will have to look at upgrading the VMWare Tools for sure. However, you also have the option to upgrade the virtual hardware of a VM. The virtual hardware upgrade offers some performance benefits, but not every VM will [...]

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