I wish you all the best in health .. love and IT 🙂 Happy New year  !! Let’s make 2011 one to never forget ! CHEEERS ! Martin

Allthough i mostly work with VMware environments i stumbled on this free snack video of Microsoft. It’s for free, so why not !? 🙂 The Microsoft Virtualization solution consists of four virtualization technologies: server, application, presentation, and desktop. Together, these technologies provide you with a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization solution that can help you create a dynamic IT infrastructure.

Just a quick note on how to get the VMware tools running on Debian Lenny on a Vsphere Virtual Machine.

Get all the info you need by installing the HP Management drivers for your vSphere server. If you’re installing from the .iso from VMware you probably don’t have the HP drivers integrated into it, but you would like to monitor your Array Controller and discs.

A nice demo by Veeam !

Veeam has just released it’s new backup and recovery tool wich is version 5 ! New major features are : vPower U-AIR SureBackup Recovery Verification

Hugo aka “The Dutch Handyman” wrote a nice article about ‘ How to change Domain Admin Password ‘ , so i thought why not share it with you all. Sometimes it can be a really complex if the IT provider doesn’t want to give out the administrator password, but you as the new IT provider needs it badly. First of …

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Here’s a great video from VMworld Europe 2010. In this video, VCP #1, Susan Gudenkauf provides us updates on the upcoming VMware vSphere management apps. In the video, we learn that a beta will be released in the next couple of weeks and the app will be released as a fling (from labs.VMware.com) by the end of the year. After …

This article will show you the steps needed to upgrade your vSphere ESXi 4.0 server to the current latest version 4.1. Software downloads needed to complete this task: VMware vSphere CLI ( vSphere CLI 4.1 ) VMware vSphere upgrade patch ( upgrade ZIP from ESXi 4.0 ) or ( upgrade ZIP from ESXi 3.5 ) After you downloaded the vSphere …

Recently VMware released the new version of vSphere. One of the biggest announcements of the release is that in 2011, VMware ESX will go away and be replaced with ESXi. As part of that transition, VMware is releasing new features to ESXi to make it more appealing both to the current VMware Admins and to new VMware Admins (who may …

There are several methods to upgrade ESX/ESXi. This article outlines the available upgrade paths.  

The correct time is essential to your ESXi server, you will need it for a variety of reasons (syslog, iscsi authentication and Security) and your Virtual Clients. A NTP server is the right service for job. It’s allready builtin, you just need to enable it.

Working on vmware is great, but it gets even better when you have some sounds. A straight out the box install gives you a error on the sound card. The audio Service is not running No audio Devices are installed It took me some to figure out this problem, but at the end … it was really simple. Let’s make …

If you convert a physical machine to a virtual machine you’ll probably give it the same ip as it used to have. But when you try to modify the ip address in the TCP/IP settings of your vmware nic you’ll get the error that there is an existing NIC with the same IP address settings. This is where your search …