Today I wanted to find out a little bit more about the differences between VMWare ESX and ESXi. Since it doesn’t make sense that i rewrite what others have written already let me share the sources i have found. ESX and ESXi comparison from VMWare How does VMware ESXi Server compare to ESX Server? from David [...]
Archive of posts tagged vmware
Converting VMWare image to Hyper-V image
Tomorrow there are plans to move some VMWare slices into Hyper-V. In preparation of that i have found the following article on TechNet http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/ef8c12f7-c45d-442e-9a30-c43cd87df3b3/ and on vmToolkit there is a the tool VMDK to VHD converter that should help doing the job, so far for the theory, hope it works out.
Installing ESXi in VMWare Workstation 6.5
Finally after several attempts, i’ve been able to install VMWare ESXi into VMware Workstation 6.5. The intend of doing this is purely to get familiar with the product. To get this done, i have been mainly following the instructions provided by xtravirt.com Once installed i had some challenges with transfering files through the Virtual Infrastructure [...]
VMWare 6.5 available
I must have missed this somehow VMWare finally released VMWare Workstation 6.5. For those that didn’t notice it too, here’s the release notes. It does note make sense here to list any of the highlights as there are just too many of them, all described within the release notes. Well…. for those that like automation, [...]
Grow vmware size – an update
Earlier i wrote about how to extend you virtual disk , although I have not been able to test , verify this new feature myself, from the documentation provided, it looks like ESX Server 3.5 Update 2 provides hot virtual extend support. http://www.verboon.info/?p=4 Hot Virtual Extend Support – The ability to extend a virtual disk [...]
