Archive for the ‘VMware vSphere 4’ Category

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 3.5 – 8.0) – Hypervisor Size Comparison

Freitag, Januar 13th, 2023

European Roads – France Notre-Dame de La Salette

Sonntag, Februar 24th, 2019

VMware vSphere – hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings

Dienstag, Februar 27th, 2018

VMware vSphere ESXi/ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.x, and ESXi 6.0 – support USB device passthrough to a virtual machine

Dienstag, Juli 19th, 2016

vmware_logo.jpg   VMware Knowledge Base (KB)

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VMware Certified Compatibility Guide – Knowledge Base

Montag, September 24th, 2012

vmware_logo.jpg   VMware Certified Compatibility Guide

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HP ProLiant Server – VMware Support Matrix

Sonntag, September 16th, 2012

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VMware I/O Analyzer 1.1 – is a virtual appliance solution for storage performance measurement for large scale ESX clusters deployment

Samstag, April 14th, 2012

vmware_logo.jpgvmware_ioanalyzer_logo.jpg   VMware I/O Analyzer is a virtual appliance tool that provides a simple and standardized approach to storage performance analysis in VMware vSphere virtualized environments. I/O Analyzer provides a structured way to generate a variety of I/O workloads on the test system(s) including the ability to allow the user to replay an I/O trace that was captured elsewhere

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VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0 – enable Tech Support Mode Timeout

Freitag, April 6th, 2012

vmware_logo.jpg   Tech Support Mode lets admins and support personnel access the command directly on a ESXi hosts – this can be done via SSH or thru the host console.  The security risk is that the console does not shut down automatically by default.  There is a simple fix for this however you can set the auto-timeout after a certain time has passed

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VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 4 | 2011/11/17 | Build 504850

Dienstag, November 22nd, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg   VMware ESX 4.0 Update 4 Release Notes

VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 2 | 2011/10/27 | Build 502767

Freitag, Oktober 28th, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg   VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 2 Release Notes

VMware vSphere vCenter – how to send email alerts

Sonntag, Oktober 23rd, 2011

VMware vSphere 4.1 – understanding memory resource management

Samstag, September 24th, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg  This guide provides information about Tips and Tricks how to best manage Memory under VMware vSphere

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VMware OVF Tool 2.0.1 – open virtualization format

Sonntag, Juli 3rd, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg  VMware OVF Tool is a command line utility that supports importing and exporting of OVF packages for a wide variety of VMware platforms, including vSphere 4.x, vCenter 4.x, Virtual Center 2.x, Workstation 7.x and later

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Examples: 

ovftool –net:<OVF network>=<target network> -dm <diskMode> -ds <datastore> -n <target name> <OVF source> <target>

cd  “%ProgramFiles%\VMware\VMware OVF Tool”

ovftool –net:<OFV network>=<target network> -dm=[thin|thick] -ds=<target datastore name> -n=<target name>
“\\<source server>\<share>\<VMwareContainer>\<VMwareContainer>.ovf“
vi://<user>:<password>@<destination server>

ovftool „vi://<user>:<password>@<server>/ha-datacenter?ds=[datastore] vm/vm.vmx“ <local path>

VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 3 | 2011/05/05 | Build 398348

Samstag, Mai 7th, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg   On a installation and upgrade section of VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 3 release notes there is an note: “VMware vCenter Server does not support installation on 32-bit Windows operating systems. Install vCenter Server on a 64-bit Windows operating system

VMware PXE Manager 4.1 – it supports automatic PXE boot

Samstag, April 23rd, 2011

vmware_logo.jpg   VMware PXE Manager is a management tool it supports automatic PXE boot and customization of large numbers of VMware vSphere 4i systems