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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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05 November

Enable SSH on VMWare ESXi 4.0

Written by Marco

By default this isn’t possible and supported. But there is a way to get this working. Go to the ESXi Console and press alt+F1.

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03 November

Installing HP Insight Management Agents on VMWare ESX 4 server

Written by Marco

Installing HP Insight Management Agents on ESX Server In this case, I am using HP Insight Management Agents for VMware 8.2.5 (available here). I am also using a HP DL380 G6 Proliant servers with VMware versions 4.0. Note: do not...

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22 October

GPMC. An unknown error occurred while the HTML report was being created

Written by Marco

When using GPMC and looking at an HTML report in the “settings” tab, you might encounter this error message when it tries to load the report. This error is raised when you have configured IE Maintenance and have imported...

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22 October

The User Profile Service failed the logon.

Written by Marco

Yesterday I received the following error on my Windows 7 x64 Enterprise laptop when I tried to logon. The User Profile Service Failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. Then the logoff message appeared en I was back...

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14 October

Create an All-in-one x86+x64 Win7/Vista/Server 2008/R2 USB stick

Written by Marco

One of the great things about the Vista and post-Vista operating systems is that the installer subsystem allows you a great deal of flexibility when it comes to installing multiple operating systems. It is fairly easy to put together...

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14 October

Keynotes Technet Live online

Written by Marco

The keynotes from Steve Ballmer and the keynote from Daniel van Soest and Tony Krijnen are online. Both keynotes were given at the Windows 7 launch event in The Hague, The Netherlands. For more information see the link. On this...

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12 October

Booting from a VHD disk

Written by Marco

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 have a really useful feature called “VHD Boot”. With that you can boot your entire Windows out of a Virtual Hard Disk file (as those used with Virtual PC or Virtual Server). This VHD...

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