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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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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 ESX: Extend Windows Server 2008 Basic volume hard disk

Posted by Ivan
/ September 30, 2008 / 1 Comment

Last week I run into free disk space problem on my Windows Server 2003 virtual machine and today on another virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 I encountered same thing again. The virtual disk was sized for 10GB and only 80MB was free. The virtual machine is running Windows Server...

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VMWare ESX: Virtual Hard Disk FULL

Posted by Ivan
/ September 28, 2008 / 2 Comments

Recently I was working to move a virtual machine test network to production. Before bringing this virtual machine into production I wanted to run the latest updates and during that process my virtual hard disk become full. When I created this virtual machine I configured the initial disk space 6GB....

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VMWare ESX: Service Console IP address

Posted by Ivan
/ September 12, 2008 / 5 Comments

There are couple command line tools that VMWare ESX offers when the server has been installed with the “Service Console” mode (without i). In the following example I will explain and show how to create new vSwitch; link a physical network interface and assign a IP address for your “Service...

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VMware ESX: SSH remote management

Posted by Ivan
/ September 12, 2008 / 1 Comment

After installing VMWare ESX 3.5 hypervisor host server I would like to manage this system with SSH remotely. Server is manufactured by Dell and the DRAC mgmt card interface is available but I prefer to use SSH. SSH is enabled by default but disallows access for root. See my work...

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VMWare ESX3i: FREE

Posted by Ivan
/ August 13, 2008 / Leave a comment

Who could ever believe and see VMWare releasing their ESX for free. Last night I read small post on my Windows Mobile device. What is VMware ESXi 3.5? VMware ESXi 3.5 is the industry’s first, thin hypervisor integrated into server hardware. With its next-generation architecture embedded in hardware, VMware ESXi...

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ESX: esxcfg-vswitch and special vlan switch

Posted by Ivan
/ June 12, 2008 / 2 Comments

If you need to create 5 or more of Virtual Port groups on a vSwtich and you don’t want to use the VI client than logon on the service console and run the commands below. For creating a new Virtual Port Group use: esxcfg-vswitch -A NAME-TO-GIVE vSwitch0 Assigning a special...

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VMWare Premium Support and Linux Live-CD

Posted by Ivan
/ May 29, 2008 / Leave a comment

Last two days I worked with a VMWare Premium Support engineer troubleshooting my VMWare ESX problem for booting the system. I will post another post with exact error messages, but we were not able to get into the service console nor did the other two boot options work. At some ...

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VMWare ESX: Blue screen during installation of Windows XP

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

VMWare ESX: Extend Windows Server 2008 Basic volume hard disk

VMWare ESX: Virtual Hard Disk FULL

VMWare ESX: Service Console IP address

VMware ESX: SSH remote management

VMWare ESX3i: FREE

ESX: esxcfg-vswitch and special vlan switch

VMWare Premium Support and Linux Live-CD

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