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VMWare: How to migrate or backup small scale vCenter database?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 29, 2011 / 3 Comments

VMWare vCenter Server requires a sql database engine to store it’s data. During the vCenter installation there is an option to choose a “Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express” instance for small scale deployments. I have installed the local SQL engine on my vCenter virtual machine and now I want to migrate...

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VMWare: how to upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1?

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2010 / 4 Comments

I am running several VMWare ESXi4 servers and I wanted to upgrade them to the latest release of ESXi4.1. The following steps I used to achieve this job in less than 5 minutes. Please make sure you installed vSpere CLI and download the upgrade package on you system before you...

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VMWare: how to install Windows 7 from USB media on VMWare Workstation?

Posted by Ivan
/ December 16, 2009 / 16 Comments

In my previous post I created a USB installation disk with the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Now I am going to use the USB flash disk drive to install my systems. I also can use this media to install my virtual machines. VMWare Workstation 6.5 or lower does...

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VMWare: why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

VMWare has updated their client virtualization platform and released the VMWare Workstation 7 release. Why upgrade to VMWare Workstation 7? Why Choose VMware Workstation? Check out this cool video from the VMWare site. The wow experience with the latest release. The guys from VMWare did a great job! The...

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VMWare: Failed to start VMware VirtualCenter Server service?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 16, 2009 / 5 Comments

My Openfiler iSCSI SAN failed and all virtual machines on my Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot the “VMWare VirtualCenter Server” service failed to start showing the following error message: I opened Windows Explorer, browsed to to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs and opened latest vpxd-XX.log log...

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VMWare: how to set static MAC address ESX?

Posted by Ivan
/ April 21, 2009 / 20 Comments

Last week I planned to migrate some virtual machines running on a VMWare Server 1.x Windows host to aVMWare ESX 3.5i host. One of the vm’s is running as license server and the registration key was registered by using the MAC of the network interface. I had to keep the...

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VMWare ESX: Blue screen during installation of Windows XP

Posted by Ivan
/ February 10, 2009 / 1 Comment

If you try to install Windows XP virtual machine on a VMWare ESX host you will receive the following error blue screen during the Setup phase. Make sure you download the SCSI LSI Logic driver. Restart the setup; run F6 and load the SCSI drivers. With the lastest versions of...

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Windows 7 Beta: What’s new in Win7?

Posted by Ivan
/ January 15, 2009 / Leave a comment

Finally after 2,5 year Windows Vista was released I can say “WOW” with the first public beta of Windows 7. The installation process went smooth. I installed one VM and two physical machines. The setup went fine on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and on my ASUS home system. I am...

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VMWare ESX: Hyper-V and memory overcommit? forget it!

Posted by Ivan
/ December 18, 2008 / 1 Comment

Hyper-V Manager error when trying to start my 4th virtual machine: An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine. Unable to allocate MB of RAM. Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. etc… Before I reinstall my test Dell PowerEdge 2900 Quad core...

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VMWare Workstation: high-speed USB 2.0 support vm

Posted by Ivan
/ November 8, 2008 / 7 Comments

Since couple days I am running Windows XP x64 and I wanted to scan some documents with my old Canon Lide scanner which is connected by USB cable on the host. Drivers are not supported in Windows XP x64 and therefore I am using a Windows XP 32bit virtual machine....

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