Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Vista – clearing out some space
Posted by on May 29, 2009
I have had Vista RTM installed on my current laptop since it was released, I’m always running out of disk space – I just have an .iso and VM hording habit! However I recently upgraded my laptop from a 100Gb disk to a 200Gb one, thinking that should be more than enough (famous last [...]
Cheap vSphere Server
Posted by on May 21, 2009
If you have a home lab setup or want to get going with learning VMware’s new vSphere product you will need an x64 capable machine to run it on, although it does also run under VMware Workstation too – even supporting nested VMs and physical ESX to virtual ESX vMotion! unfortunately it won’t run [...]
vSphere Downloads
Posted by on May 21, 2009
Now it’s out these screengrabs show you the downloadable binaries Still has the classic (with service console) and ESXi versions vCenter and all it’s utilities vCenter heartbeat, Data recovery and vShield zones, interesting that they have packaged data recovery manager and vShield Zones into one {large!} download. No Cisco Nexus NX1000V on the VMware.com [...]
vSphere, Come and Get it
Posted by on May 21, 2009
Well today is the day, GA or general availability of VMware’s new flagship product – vSphere (formerly known as Virtual Infrastructure 3). The VMware.com homepage is showing the download link for a free 60 day trail. download page is here for some of my vSphere articles and many more check out these links http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/21/vsphere-linkage/ [...]
ExPrep – Script to Automate Exchange 2007 Pre-Requisite Installation
Posted by on May 13, 2009
If you have ever had to install Exchange 2007 on a Windows 2008 (and 2003) server you will know that there are a number of pre-requisites that need to be installed from the OS for each role; for example IIS web services and metabase compatibility components. You have two choices, do this via the [...]
vSphere RC RAM Under VMware Workstation: How Low Can You Go?
Posted by on May 8, 2009
Getting ESX (in it’s various versions) to run under VMware Workstation has proven to be a very popular article on this blog, if you are a consultant who has to do product demos of VI3/vSphere or are studying for your VCP it’s a very useful thing to be able to do on your own [...]
Importing vCenter 2.5 Customization Specifications into vCenter 4
Posted by on May 7, 2009
If you have a lot of customization specifications setup in your vCenter server you are likely to want to copy these to your vSphere/vCenter 4 lab or production system when it’s released, otherwise it’s a bit tedious typing it all in again The following steps show how to export and then import your guest [...]
