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Posted in November 3rd, 2008
by webmaster in Events, Virtualization

Just got back from the Microsoft Virtualization Launch Event in New York.  Overall, it was pretty good.  It was also pretty short, it started at 8:30am and it’s pretty much done by 1:30pm.  There’s also not a lot of people who attended this event compared to their other launch events, there were plenty of seats […]

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VMware ESXi: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer (Windows XP)

Posted in October 23rd, 2008
by webmaster in Error Messages, Virtualization

If you get this error when installing Windows XP in VMware ESXi, simply do the following:

Download this floppy image which contains the VMware SCSI drivers: vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp.
Upload the floppy image to the datastore using the VI Client.
Edit the virtual machine settings and select Floppy Drive 1, then choose the option on the right to “Use existing […]

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Citrix XenDesktop User Experience Demo

Posted in October 21st, 2008
by webmaster in Virtualization

I’m doing some research on Citrix XenDesktop and I just saw this demo.  I know this is kind of old but I just find it really cool!
Check it out here.

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Microsoft Virtualization Launch Event

Posted in October 18th, 2008
by webmaster in Events, Virtualization

Just saw this on Microsoft’s website, you can register here: http://www.getvirtualnow.com/usevents/cityselect.aspx
Here are the sessions:
Session I: Server Virtualization and Management
An inside look at Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager from an architectural and a real world point of view. Complete with live demo’s of real life scenarios, and even a look at SCVMM managing VMWare […]

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Converting Physical Citrix Server to VMware Using VMware Converter

Posted in September 14th, 2008
by webmaster in SysAdmin, Virtualization

We converted one of our physical Citrix servers yesterday to VMware ESXi also and it went smoothly as well.  No issues so far, so if you’re thinking of doing the same thing I can confirm that it works.
We also use RSA SecurID for authentication and it still works after the conversion with no changes made […]

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Converting Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Virtual Machines to VMware

Posted in September 14th, 2008
by webmaster in SysAdmin, Virtualization

We just converted 3 of our virtual machines running on Virtual  Server 2005 R2 to VMware ESXi yesterday and it went pretty smoothly with just a couple of minor issues.
The first issue is the mouse cursor not working in VMware console after installing the VMware tools.  The fix is just a simple registry edit:

Open Registry […]

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VMware ESXi First Impressions

Posted in September 3rd, 2008
by webmaster in Software, Virtualization

I finally got a chance to try this out yesterday on a Dell PowerEdge 6600 server that we use for testing at work.  I’ve been testing it pretty much most of yesterday and today and I have to say that I’m very impressed with it so far.
Installation was very easy: download and burn the ISO […]

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VMware ESXi

Posted in August 30th, 2008
by webmaster in Software, Virtualization

I just found out last night that VMware ESXi, VMware’s bare metal hypervisor, is now available for free.  I got really excited and wanted to try it out right away so I decided to use my Lenovo ThinkPad X60s laptop as a test machine.  I backed up all my files last night so I can […]

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