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Hyper-V for Web Hosting?

February 10, 2010

Are you planning on using Hyper-V for web hosting as a host server or to offer Hyper-V host servers to your customers? I have been working with Hyper-V a little bit and I am not too impressed with it at the moment. I am a friend of streamlining my environment, to automate stuff, and to [...]

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VMWare vSphere needs Hosts file

January 27, 2010

In late November of 2009 VMWare released the U1 packages for vSphere (ESX 4) and vCenter 4 (VirtualCenter). U1 stand for Update 1 and you can compare it to a service pack on the Windows side of things. Update 1 for vSphere fixed several bugs. Update 1 for vCenter added Windows 7 and Windows 2008 [...]

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VMWare ESX Performance Tuning Tip

October 6, 2009

If you run VMWare ESX in your data center, you might be interested in finding new ways to tune your overall system performance. One easy way to tune performance is often overlooked, because it initially is thought to affect system redundancy. Rest assured, this will not affect your system redundancy. Here is the situation: Usually [...]

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Upgrade VMWare vCenter to Version 4

June 15, 2009

Today I upgraded my first VirtualCenter or vCenter installation to the new vSphere vCenter 4. The upgrade was very smooth and went almost without any hiccups. The vCenter client upgrades itself the next time you login. One of the first things I noticed are the thresholds for the alerts. The data store alarm thresholds needed [...]

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VMWare vSphere Licensing Changes

May 22, 2009

This one might be an issue that will bite VMWare in the rear in the long run. With the release of the new version of ESX 4 “vSphere” they also changed their licensing model a little bit – now putting more emphasis onto Multi-Core CPUs. While the initially looks as not critical, it actually is. [...]

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Installing VMWare Tools on Windows Server 2008

January 27, 2009

Installing the VMWare tools to a VM should be an easy task, but sometimes it isn’t. I recently ran into a problem where the VMWare tools did not want to install. The installer crapped out on me with the following error message: Windows Installer Service could not be accessed I rebooted the VM with no [...]

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Script to configure ISCSI settings on VMWare ESX 3.5

October 1, 2008

If you are a web hostung using VMWare ESX and ISCSI Storage, this script might be of interest for you. It shows how to script the ISCSI configuration in VMWare ESX 3.5.

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