CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
I do love VMware… ESXi lets you test many things with a few clicks of the mouse…. So, I had been testing moving from Sonicwall TZ300 to OPNsense for my home setup. While I still recommend Sonicwall for professional businesses, for home use, Sonicwall’s pricing is way over the standard home budget. OPNsense proved to […]
Had a few cases where different programmers would create a CentOS 7 Virtual Machine [VM] on their workstations and we then need to turn them into production VMs on our VMware Cluster. They would send me the OVF, and we can import them into VMware ESXi cluster. Trouble was, the SCSI Controller was LSI Logic […]
This is a minor review of Veeam’s new Endpoint Backup from my testing/usage. I’ve almost always used Windows Backup for all my Windows Servers [2003, 2008 R2, 2012 R2] backups. The best thing about Windows Backup is you have to create the recovery DVD [yes, but it’s reliable and works!] along with giving the […]
It has now been 60+ days of using Barracuda Spam Filtering. We were testing and using the Virtual Machine version, v300. As I said the my 30 days of Barracuda Spam Filtering, installation was fairly straight forward. Now that a few of our more critical domains here at NetworkX [aka CarlC Internet Services] are […]
First, I did NOT pick Barracuda by default. I’ve been using Open Source versions of software to remove and prevent spam from hitting our email servers for years now. I was given a 30 day free trial for my company, NetworkX, to test with. Loading the product… Now, lets start with some good news. […]
Well, I can’t blame VMware, the new version of conversion tools will not convert Windows 2000 to a VM correctly. Instead of fighting with that, I found a simpler way to do this. The Windows 2000 server I was virtualizing is of the 32 bit variety and had a USB port on it. So, […]
I was installing VMware Player 5.0.2 onto my Linux laptop that runs Fedora Core 18. The installation works perfectly, and the first time you click on VMplayer, it starts to install. I would get a error message “C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for installation instructions”. […]
Over the last few weeks, I needed to upgrade our VMware vSphere 4.1 cluster which had ESX 4.1 servers to vSphere 5.1. Trouble was, there really was not a “here’s the order to do this in” without trying to read thorough many Terrabytes of VMware documentation. So, here’s what I did and it worked for […]
Today I converted my VMware ESX 4.1 machine to VMware ESXi 5.1 update 1. This is the system that is running my Virtual Alpha Server using Migration Specialties’s Avanti software. The good news is, it worked almost perfectly. When you reload your VM, make sure to remove and re-add the USB key. I did […]
Had a customer with Citrix XenServer 6 and a few Virtual Machines [VMs] running. The VMs were windows based and we wanted to move them to VMware Workstation 9. I found the easiest way to do this was: 1) Setup an intermediate Windows based share to put the “converted” VM onto. This can be […]