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. [...]
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. [...]
Tagged in esxi, server configuration, servers, swap file, virtual environment, virtual machine environment, virtual servers, vmware, vmware esx
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 [...]
Tagged in fusion, new macbook pro, paralells, parallels, s, unity, vmware tools
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 [...]
Tagged in esxi, host machine, servers, virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, vmware, vmware esx