Migrating to vNetwork Distributed Switch
Came across a great step-by-step article on migrating from standard vSwitch to vNetwork Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 4.1.x. Zod Chen did a great write-up on his site…
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VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start. The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.. I found that this is because…
Use VMware VMRC Viewer Outside of Browser
I was trying to find a way to configure the vSphere Web Console plugin port it connects to since I run a non-standard port for SSL on the…
VMware Tray Dump Files Chewing up Space
I was checking out a server today (2003) and noticed that it was a tad low on disk space on the OS disk. It's a terminal server and…
VMware Data Recovery – Everything You Need To Know (BCO1432)
VMware Data Recovery – Everything You Need To Know (BCO1432) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvjbJXulSA
Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning
Here's some of the things I do to a new Server 2008 R2 install (physical and/or virtual settings are mixed in; (VIRTUAL ONLY) specifies I only do configuration…
vzlist Output Parameters and Their Specifiers
OpenVZ 'vzlist' command information vzlist Output Parameters and Their Specifiers Almost any parameter that can be used after the -o and -s switches of the vzlist utility can…
Common OpenVZ Tasks
Common OpenVZ Admin Tasks vzctl act as a master tool for various tasks: How Do I Set VPS Name to vps.foo.bar? # vzctl set 10 --hostname vps.foo.bar --save…
Cheap VPS Hosting
No Longer Available. I am starting to host public VPS for anyone interested. They are OpenVZ containers and I have a few plans available. 1. "Lite" $8/mo.64MB RAM…
OpenVZ Templates
Here’s a few links to the OpenVZ templates which include stable, beta, old and user contributed templates: http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated http://download.proxmox.com/appliances/
VMware Player 4.02 Could not find component on update server.
Installed VMware Player 4 today so I could start some development testing on a few applications. Guest installs went well but afterward when trying to install the VMware…
Disk2VHD Fix Blank Screen Bootup in Virtual PC 2007
After you convert a drive to a virtual hard disk and mount it in Virtual PC 2007, during bootup it may just give you a blank screen. The…
Disk2VHD: Create a virtual disk of live system
Another great tool from Mark Russinovich at SysInternals called Disk2VHD I just discovered. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk…