20 hours ago by Eric Gray

Nested virtualization is amazingly popular with VMware enthusiasts everywhere — especially judging by the continual flow of traffic to VCritical pages on the topic. Without this capability it would be quite expensive and complicated to set up sophisticated vSphere cloud infrastructures for learning ...

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1 day ago by JAndrews

Here’s a curious one. The max size of a thin-provisioned VMDK on a VMFS5 datastore is 2TB. If you create a new VMDK you’re allowed to create it at 2048GB/2TB. However when you go to expand an existing VMDK … Continue reading →

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1 day ago by Shaw

I had a VMware ESXi 4.1 host that I was unable to update/patch using Update Manager the today. It was coming up with the following errors when I tried: VMware vCenter Update Manager had an unknown error. Check the Tasks and Events tab and log files for details. And when I did that, I found this: Cou ...

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1 day ago by Fred

How to configure a trunk between a VMware server and a HP Procurve Switch. You can decide by yourself what to configured first. I will explain the switch configuration first and than I will explain the settings for the VMware ESX server. First Note: on the HP Procurve switch you should not run IP Ro ...

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3 days ago by Patrick

Serverüberwachung und Monitoring ist eines der wichtiges Themen in der IT. Es ist von absoluter Bedeutung den Status seiner Server und deren Services zu kennen und entsprechende Alerts zu generieren. Ich beschreibe hier das check_esx3.pl Plugin zum Überwachen der wichtigsten Ressourcen eines VMware ...

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6 days ago by dexter

I recently had to install a Virtual Machine with rather large disks from an OVF template on a remotely located ESXi host which had fantastic bandwidth, but found out that doing this using the vSphere client on my PC actually downloaded the VM disks to my location (with limited bandwidth), and then u ...

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7 days ago by 小邱

拿了一台DL380 G5來跑KVM虛擬化 遇到最大的問題就是要怎樣搬遷在Xen,ESXi上的VMs到KVM上 ESXi的話我個人是直接從datastore下載所有的image file跟設定檔 接著使用kvm-img去將disk file轉一下(ps:Qemu-kvm support vmware image v6以上的disk file) 簡單來說就是可以直接讀vmdk..(如果有分割成好幾個vmdk的話還是要先convert成一個) 然後注意一下target device是hda還是sda不要搞錯了，以及是IDE或SCSI 這些搞定大概就可以直接import進去kvm了 轉檔的部分就看需求 ...

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7 days ago by Dustin

After upgrading to VMWare ESXi 5 from 4.1, I found one of my datastore volumes would no longer mount. The disk would show up as a device, but there were a series of errors whenever I tried to mount the volume. After trying a variety of things, I still couldn’t get the volume to mount, so I decided t ...

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10 days ago by Andreas Skibb

Problem: Beim Versuch eine VM mit dem VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) abzusichern erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung: “Unable to create placeholder virtual machine at the recovery site: Recovery virtual machine could not be created: The operation ist not supported on the object.” möglicher Grund: D ...

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11 days ago by Josep Ros

Mi querido colega Alfonso Aranibar de Huancayo, Perú, me formula la siguiente pregunta que iré respondiendo sobre la misma debido a su extensión: Josep, Previos saludos y felicitaciones por tu blog, es que abusando de tus conocimientos me gustaria hacerte algunas consultas, pues en el trabajo que he ...

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