Understanding VMware View 3 package offering
VMware View 3 is available in available in two editions Enterprise and Premier as bundled solutions. This sounds very confusing to some of the folks interested in purchasing VMware View 3, for some understanding what they really need for your environment ,but it is not that complicated as what you think.
I will do my [...]
Deleting old Netapp snapshots with System Manager
1) Open System manager
2) Expand the Filer you want.
3) After selecting the filer, expand “Storage”, click on “Volumes”, select the “Snapshot Copies” tab to see the snapshots. From this view you can delete any snapshot older then 2 weeks ” Make sure is not a snap mirrored volume”.
This doesn’t happen often, but is a good practice to [...]
Running VMware vSphere Client on Windows 7
Step-by-Step Instructions
1. The following ’system.dll’ file is required. This can be downloaded via the hyperlink below.
system.dll (this file has been zipped)
2. Once downloaded, either open the zip file or unzip it and place the ‘system.dll’ file into one of the following directories depending on the version of Windows 7 being used, which would be either [...]
SRM services fail to start with error 1067
When both protected and recovery site of the SRM services fail to start with error 1067, it is due to either an IP change or SQL Database corruption.
In my case the database was corrupted and I could not fix it to retain my SRM configurations.
To fix this 1067 service error do the following steps:
uninstalling DRS [...]
VMware View 3 product Editions:Enterprise/Premier
VMware announced their revamped Provisioning and Virtualization product – VMware View 3 availability on December 2, 2008. VMware renamed their existing desktop virtualization product formerly known as VMware desktop infrastructure to VMware View 3.
VMware View 3 is not only a renamed product but newly added technologies like VMware View Composer, VMware ThinAPP, Offline desktop, Unified [...]
What’s included in VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus
VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize upto three physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior application availability and data protection.
What’s included in vSphere Essentials Plus includes:
• VMware ESXi and VMware ESX (deployment-time choice)
• VMware vStorage VMFS
• Four-way Virtual SMP
• VMware vCenter Server Agent
• VMware vStorage [...]
VMware vSphere Editions -Why VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus?
VMware Inc. is leader in Virtualization technologies and they have maintained their leadership by releasing their new rebranded product line – VMware vSphere 4.
VMware vSphere 4.0 is a product suite that includes VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX 4.0, VMware HA, VMware DRS, VMware Thin Provisoning, VMware Data Recovery, Storage VMotion, Host Profiles, vNetwork distributed Switch [...]
How to install VMware Tools in CentOS 5
VMware tools are needed on VMware virtual machines so that guest operating systems can run without any performance issues.
I have installed CentOS 5 on VMware workstation 5.5 and here is how i installed VMware Tools in CentOS 5:
1. Install CentOS 5 kernel-devel packages required for VMware Tools installation
1. First make sure you have network access [...]
VMware ESX 4 (vSphere 4.0) finally gets 64 bit Kernel
VMware ESX 4.0 or vSphere is finally a true 64 bit Virtuailization OS. Vmware vSphere is the next major version of VMware infrastructure 3, the virtual datacenter operating systems is finally uses 64 bit kernel. VMware ESX 3.5 uses 32 bit Kernel, along with wide varities of features added to VMware ESX 4 , the [...]
Free VMware Book -VMware ESX Server in Enterprise Planning and securing Virtualization servers
VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Server Book is written for Beginner and Advanced Systems Administrators. What i like about this book is there are Lot of pictures highlighting Architecture and design portion related to VMware ESX server setups.If you are looking at implementing virtualization in your datacenter or for your [...]



