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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...

Posted in ESX
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....

Posted in ESX, VMWare
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...

Posted in ESX
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...

Posted in ESX
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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VMware Workstation 6.04 linux x64 unrecoverable error

Posted by Ivan
/ June 25, 2008 / 1 Comment

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition 64bit edition and after I installed VMWare Workstation 6.04 Linux x64 edition I got the following error when trying to start my virtual machines sitting on a NTFS USB disk volume. VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!A...

Posted in VMWare, Workstation
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...

Posted in ESX
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 ...

Posted in ESX
VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta

Posted by Ivan
/ May 19, 2008 / Leave a comment

If you are curios and interested like I am than the latest VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta is definitely something to download and install on your system. Why Participate in a VMware Beta Program? Here are a few reasons why you should participate in VMware beta programs. Exposure to the next...

Posted in Workstation
Cisco: how to configure multiple ports on a switch as trunk?

Posted by Ivan
/ April 7, 2008 / 2 Comments

If you are managing Cisco network equipment and switches in particular then you should be aware of the following feature. This feature can save you a lot of time when configuring Cisco switches. In my example I configured 20 ports to be as trunk in a lab environment. Switch1#conf t...

Posted in Cisco, VMWare