Tag: VMWare
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You may have seen the "Smoked by Windows Phone" ad campaign, where a Windows Phone does something faster than another phone. Well how about "Smoked by Hyper-V Server" challenge? As part of my initiative to "Do IT the Microsoft way", I set about switching over from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V. After installing Hyper-V Server…
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Alex Fontana over on the VMware blogs posted a great article on choosing between virtual disks (VMDK files) and Raw-device Mappings (RDM) when virtualizing an Exchange server. Check it out here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/11/virtualized-exchange-storage-vmdk-or-rdm-or.html I have deployed virtualized Exchange servers on VMDK files in ESXi 4.1 environments without any issues. I've also used the "In-guest iSCSI" method…
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Installing an Operating System (O/S) can take hours. Good thing when it comes to deploying Virtual Machines (VMs), you really only need to do this once. So for the final installment of the "Budget Laboratory" series, I'm going to show you how to create a VM for use as an O/S template, using the vSphere…
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Before VMware released version 8 of their popular Workstation software, it was not possible to run 64-bit guest operating systems (O/S) from an ESXi 4.1 or vSphere 5 guest. This nested Virtual Machine (VM) setup is great for learning and test lab environments, but up until now you were limited to 32-bit guest O/S's. Workstation 8…
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Today I'm going to show you how to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on VMware Workstation 8. The Windows 8 Developer Preview was just released last night (09/13/2011), and VMware Workstation 8 was just released today (09/14/2011). UPDATE: If you came here because the Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released today (02/29/2012), this…
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VMWare released version 8 of Workstation today. The upgrade costs $99, and a new license will set you back $199. The new version boasts over 50 new features, including: Remotely connect to virtual machines running on VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, and VMware vCenter anywhere on your network Simply drag and drop when you are…
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For Part 4 of the "Budget Laboratory" series, we're going to connect the ESXi 4.1 server we installed in Part 3, to the Virtual SAN we created using FreeNAS 8 in Part 2, using the vSphere client. You will need: An iSCSI SAN. An ESXi 4.1 Server. A system running the vSphere client.* *If you…
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For this installment of my “Budget Laboratory” series, I’ll show you how to install VMWare ESXi 4.1 on VMWare Workstation 7. Yes, we’ll be running Virtual Machines (VMs) inside of a VM! Why would anyone want to do such a thing? To learn ESXi and vSphere of course! If you don’t have spare hardware for…
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Storage Area Networks (SANs) are used in most Enterprise class networks, you’ll also find them at a lot of small and medium businesses. A lot of systems rely on SANs to provide high availability features. A SAN is great to have for setting up shared storage for any type of cluster. Fiber used to be…
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Wait a minute, I thought this was an “Exchange blog”, why is your first article about networking with pfSense?! Well, in order to create high quality Exchange related content for this site, I’ve been building a lab. There has been some interest in how I’ve setup my lab, so I thought I’d show you. What…