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Head-to-head analysis of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace, and VMware View

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:27:49 +0000

Ruben Spruijt has published an updated whitepaper “VDI Smackdown” which provides you with an overview of today’s VDI solutions. More details here

VMware Workstation 7 RC available

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:10:04 +0000

Finally, after a long waiting time, VMware has released a release candidate for VMware Workstation 7.

Aero support for Windows 7 and Vista Guests!
Windows 7 support (as a Host and Guest OS)
OpenGL and Shader Model 3.0 support for Windows guests
Create guests with Multi-core or 4-way CPUs and up to 32GB of Memory
Download VMware vSphere 4 and install ESX as a guest OS to try out the latest features.

VMWare vSphere

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:53:22 +0000

ESX was yesterday, tomorrow is vSphere. VMWare today announced vSphere. For more information watch the video below or go to: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/index.html

[videofile]http://download3.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere_feature_304x212_R4.swf[/videofile]

VMWare Workstation – Memory configuration

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:37:46 +0000

One of the key hardware related prerequisites when using Virtualization software is RAM. To improve performance of my virtual environment that I have running on my notebook, I had ordered an additional memory module of 2 GB RAM.

After having added the additional 2 GB of RAM i started the VMWare Workstation and booted the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 guest systems. Before starting these I had of course raised the assigned amount of memory for each guest system.

Comparing VMWare ESX and ESXi

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:01:55 +0000

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 Davis on Virtualization.com

The Architecture of VMWare ESXi from VMWare

ESX and ESXi comparison from the Virtual Troll

Installing ESXi in VMWare Workstation 6.5

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:28:38 +0000

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 Client datastore browser where i received I/O errors. After some troubleshooting it appears to be related to the network , switch configuration which i haven’t solved yet. The workaround i used for the time being is to configure the ESXi vmware network setting to “host” only instead of “Bridged”.

VMWare 6.5 available

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:17:15 +0000

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, have a look at vmrun.

And of course there is also the VMWare Player 2.5.

Grow vmware size - an update

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:11:57 +0000

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.

Grow vmware size

Hot Virtual Extend Support – The ability to extend a virtual disk while virtual machines are running is provided. Hot extend is supported for vmfs flat virtual disks without snapshots opened in persistent mode

Grow vmware size

Sat, 10 May 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Today i ran out of diskspace on one of my systems that runs within a vmware session. The system disk only had 10 GB and I needed to add another 10 GB.

This is what i did:

Extend the disk in offline mode by running the following command: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB “C:\Users\Alex\Documents\Virtual Machines\Server 2003 - sysmanage\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-cl1.vmdk” It then takes a while until the disk is expanded.