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As a system administrator with growing demand on your servers you will eventually run into a capacity bottleneck in your CPU, RAM, Disk, or network. These performance issues can be difficult to identify and troubleshoot without a quality tool. For typical Windows servers, performance management tools can often be difficult to install, configure, and obtain…

In our article called VMware Disk Files Explained, we talked about the different VMware files on disk. In particular, we talked about the important VMware VMX configuration file. In this article, we’ll go into more details on this critical VMX file. What are VMX Files? In our previous article, VMware Disk Files Explained, we covered…

Whether you would like to use virtualization on your desktop PC or on a server farm, you must choose a virtualization product. The two most popular virtualization products are EMC’s VMware and Microsoft’s Virtual PC/Server. So how do you choose the right product for your needs? Let’s find out… Understanding Your Needs No matter what…

In our recent article about downloading Microsoft Exchange 2007 VHD files, we learned how Microsoft has recently offered demo versions of their newest Enterprise applications (Exchange, Windows Server 2003 R2, and others), in the VHD format. The VHD format works in Microsoft Virtual Server and can be easily imported into VMWare. While this is a…

In the past, VMware was just a single product. Now, you will find that there are a wide variety of VMware products to choose from. Because of this, it can be confusing which one to choose. This article aims at helping you sort it all out by providing a quick review of all VMware products….

VMware has released a new “solution” called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). If you are using VMware’s products to serve up desktops to your end users, you may already be using a more basic form of VDI and not even know it. Let’s find out more about VDI… What is VDI? This is a VMware solution,…

Perhaps you need to test the result of configuration changes on a server or maybe you want to see what happens if you install a new service pack. No matter what you are doing on a computer, many times, you actions may have unintended consequences. Have you ever installed a new program you downloaded and…

Pointing and clicking is great but you can save a lot of time by knowing the keyboard shortcuts used by VMware. In fact, in some cases, you must know the right keys to push to do what you need to do. Let’s learn more… What can you do with Keyboard Shortcuts? So what can you…

When using VMware Server & Workstation, you will, at some point, go to the directory where your VMware virtual machines are stored. Inside this directory, you will see a number of strange files and you will probably wonder what they are and what they do. Now, you can stop wondering and find out. Directory Listing…

When most people think of Virtualization, they might think of Microsoft but I’d be willing to bet that they think of VMware. In fact, there may be many out there who don’t know that there are other virtualization products besides VMware’s solutions. While VMware has excellent Virtualization products, I think it is important to know…

In our Remotely Manage VMware Servers article, we talked about the different ways to remotely manage your VMware Server. A very cool (I believe) “backdoor” management method for VMware is VNC. And even better, its built-in to VMware – you don’t have to install it. All you have to do is turn it on. Let’s…

Just like with any network operating system, to securely setup VMware ESX, you need to understand how to configure users, groups, and roles. In this article, you will find out how. Introduction to VMware ESX users, groups, and roles Keep in mind that VMware ESX is a modified version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Thus,…