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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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VMWare Converter Problems and how I solved them

May 5, 2010
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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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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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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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