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If you are VMware ESX user you must be aware of Windows XP guest VM booting issue that only happens during Windows XP installation.

If you are first time installing Windows XP guest VM on VMware ESX then you will notice instead of booting from CDROM new Windows XP guest VM gets into network boot.Windows XP [...]

iSCSI in VMware ESX

A SCSI transport protocol, enabling access to storage devices over standard TCP/IP networks. In VMware ESX environment iSCSI can be used if HBA’s are not available on physical server running as VMware ESX host.
SCSI transport protocol on VMware ESX server:
-Maps SCSI block-oriented storage over TCP/IP
-Mappig is Similar to mapping SCSI over Fibre [...]

I learned some tricks while doing my first Windows XP guest OS installation on VMware ESX 3.5 server. I managed to install the Windows XP virtual machine you can read some solution here if your Windows XP setup cannot find the hard disk during installation. When my Windows XP installation completed i run into another [...]

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 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 [...]

This is my first Windows XP professional installation on VMware ESX 3.5 where i started the installation using VMware virtual center client. I have to add some BIOS boot delay to select local PC boot device CDROM. I managed to get into BIOS and selected CDROM as boot device for Windows XP professional virtual desktop. [...]

VMware renamed their product branding with release of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware Virtual Center server is now called as VMware vCenter . The new VMware vCenter 4 comes loaded with several new features.VMware vCenter has advanced search feature added , so if you are running several hundreds VM’ you can use advanced search capability to [...]

If you are new to VMware ESX then you will see lot of new terminologies used in virtualization environment.

I have been asked by my friends who are in System administration field for years but virtualization is new to them. This is most common question where beginners in ESX environment have hard time understanding difference [...]

The newer BIOS on IBM x3650 breaks vmotion between server with identical hardware. I received following error message while doing vmotion of guests from ESX host running on x3650 to another IBM x3650.

Warning: Migration from esxhost365×1 to esxhost365×2: Migration will cause the virtual machine’s configuration to be modified, to preserve the CPU feature requirements for [...]