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Extending a Windows Server 2008 startup volume

Virtualization,efficiency 12 June 2010 | 65 Comments

No no, I haven’t converted to the “other side”, but I had the need to extend my Windows Server 2008 VMWare image from 20GB to 40GB. Extending the virtual disk was a piece of cake (thanks to VMWare) but extending the disk on Windows Server 2008 was kinda “difficult” until I found the following description. [...]

VMWare ESX(i) Could not power on…

Virtualization 7 April 2009 | 20 Comments

We run most of our servers on some sort of virtual environment. Be it XEN or VMWare ESX(i). This has proofed to be a very cost effective way to fully leverage each machine’s CPU and RAM. In any case, the other day we had to adjust some RAM settings for one of the virtual servers. [...]

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New VMWare Update lets you import your Parallels virtual machines

Virtualization 14 February 2009 | 5 Comments

My favorite virtual machine provider, just released an update to it already perfect application. The new version brings the capability to import virtual machines that you might have created with Paralells 4.x. See the video below how easy it is. Also, they apparently fixed a bug with the Shared Folders feature that would add a [...]

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How to update a ESXi server

Virtualization 27 January 2009 | 6 Comments

All of my servers run a flavor of a virtual infrastructure. Most popular is probably the VMWare ESX and ESXi series. Especially, the ESXi offering is a freely available virtualization platform that allows you to host virtual machines hassle free. So, with any offering there has to be some distinction between the paid offering and [...]

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