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All entries having to do with VMware
With everyone in the world converting from “Physical” server to virtual, and in our attempts to use less electricity, less cooling, and just being “Greener”, I decided to look at Migration Specialties Avanti. You can find Migration Specialties at www.migrationspecialties.com . We currently have different AXP servers, but for my test, I will convert a Dec […]
Well, over the weekend, I got a chance to convert from using XP Professional for my “Windows” needs to Windows 7. When I created the Windows 7 system Virtual Machine [VM] on ESX 4.1 with update 1, I used the defaulted “LSI Logic SAS”. This has been the “Controller of choice” for many a Windows […]
I just like how some software, like logwatch, does a great job at monitoring and sending you daily log files. You can really stay on top of things with a wonderful free opensource product like this. Unfortunately, logwatch does not really know about ESX, and the differences between a regular Linux server and the […]
During a conversion using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, we ran in to a most interesting problem. We were converting from a static IP address to a DHCP address, and after converting, the XP box would not pick up a DHCP address. What we found was, when you tell VMware to convert, XP goes from […]