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05 September

Upgrade paths for ESX/ESXi hosts

Written by Marco

Purpose There are several methods to upgrade ESX/ESXi. This article outlines the available upgrade paths. Note: This is not a comprehensive guide on how to upgrade ESX/ESXi. For more information on performing an upgrade, see the links in this article. Resolution...

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13 July

VMware vSphere 4.1 Released

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Today VMware released a new version of their virtualization product VMware vSphere 4.1. There are a lot of new things and features in this product. Eric Siebert has created a good article with all the new stuff that comes...

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07 May

Sysprep file locations and versions

Written by Marco

Symptoms When attempting to customize the deployment of a virtual machine the radio buttons are disabled (grayed out) When a virtual machine is deployed from a template, the SID is always the same, despite the fact that you chose the...

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07 April

VMware VCP 410 Exam passed.

Written by Marco

Today I passed my VMware VCP 410 examen, these are the study notes, blogs and Books I used for my exam preperation. Important documentation links. VMware vSphere 4.0 documentation : http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_vc40.html VMware Consolidated Backup Documentation : http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcb_pubs.html VMware vCenter Update...

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14 January

Network Emulator Toolkit

Written by Marco

Searching for a tool to simulate a poor network connection? Here is the solution. It’s called Network Emulator Toolkit (NEWT) and is available in a 32 Bits version and a 64 Bits version. Download. Network Emulator Toolkit 32-Bits. Network Emulator...

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30 November

Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail

Written by Marco

Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state if the host has HP Insight Management Agents running Symptoms On HP Proliant systems, when...

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23 November

vSphere Client on Windows 7 now supported

Written by Marco

Last week I posted an articel about running the vSphere client on a Windows 7 workstation. This was a problem, but now after Update 1 for vSphere Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 are now supported.

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23 November

VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 Release Notes

Written by Marco

VMWare released Update 1 for vCenter Server 4.0. The release notes are found here : Link.

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19 November

Running VMware vSphere Client on Windows 7

Written by Marco

VMWare has recently launched a work around for the problem of running the vSphere client on a Windows 7 workstations. Link to the document : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011329

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14 November

ESXi 4 on a USB memory stick

Written by Marco

First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo) Download the ESXi ISO (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso) Open the ISO with 7-Zip Open “image.tgz” with 7-Zip Browse to “\image.tgz.temptar\usr\lib\vmware\installer\VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2\” Extract “VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd” Open WinImage and go to Disk, click on “Restore Virtual Harddisk Image on...

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