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VMware‘s virtualization products make it easy for end users to virtualize almost any operating system and make it easy to test and run almost any application. Scenarios for using such products include times when you wish to test an application before installing it on your production environment, test a service pack or hotfix, and even…

In our previous articles, we covered the explained what Roles, Privileges, and Permissions are in VMware ESX. VMware ESX Server comes with a number of administrative security roles already defined, by default. However, those default roles aren’t going to fit the needs of every company or every network administrator. In this article, we will find…

Recently, there was a Petri Virtualization Forums member asking about how he could automatically power up a VMware Guest OS. To help that member and others member who may have the same question, I have created this article on how to automatically power up VMware Server Guest Operating systems on server boot up. Why do…

Many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features cannot be used without a SAN (storage area network). Besides the high cost of the ESX Server software and the Virtual Infrastructure Suite, a SAN can be a huge barrier to using VMware ESX and features like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler…

Once you have your VMware ESX Server Datacenter up and running, you are going to want to know when the virtualized financial server goes down or, much worse, when the virtualized email server goes down. So how do you know what is going on in your ESX farm when you aren’t sitting there and staring…

VMware ESX server is an amazing and complex product. It combines a Linux Service console with the power to run multiple virtual machine operating systems, all on the same server. There are a number of ways to administer ESX. Perhaps you are considering VMware ESX server or maybe you have it installed but want to…

Have you ever made a change to your VMware ESX Server Network configuration using the Virtual Infrastructure (VI) Client and then lost communications with the server? If you had to go to the ESX Service console to troubleshoot the virtual network configuration, would you know the commands to do it? In this article, you will…

With the growing popularity of VMware Infrastructure & ESX Server, there are an ever growing number of 3rd party tools available for ESX Server. In this article, we will provide a list of ESX 3rd party tools you should consider as add-ons for your ESX Servers. Take a look… What applications do I get with…

VMware ESXi 4.0 provides enhanced support for installing in “embedded” mode, so the host server does not need any physical disks installed. For vSphere Infrastructures utilizing SAN storage this allows diskless operation, reducing hardware costs and improving boot times. In this article Tom Finnis demonstrates how to do this with Hewlett Packard’s new G6 series servers using their built-in SD card slot.