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 [...]
Citrix XenServer 5 – some packages appeared damaged install error
Recently I am hearing lot about Citrix XenServer virtualization so i thought let’s give it a try. On Citrix website 30 days XenServer trial is available for download so I started downloading XenServer 5 Enterprise Edition. I have to fill out a lengthy form before i got to actual download page. Citrix XenServer 5 product [...]
HP Proliant Virtual console – integrated Citrix Xensever
HP Proliant Virtual console is an easy to use local Graphical user interface (GUI) console for creating and managing virtual machines on HP proliant servers. HP Proliant virtual console uses light weight Citrix Xenserver virtualization technology jointly developed by HP and Cirtix.The HP integrated Citrix XenServer offering put powerful virtulization capabilities right into the [...]
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 [...]
What’s new in VMware vCenter 4
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 [...]
Cannot vmotion on new IBM x3650 servers
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 [...]
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) -host policy feature
VMWare ESX 4 or vSphere should be released soon, VMware vSphere is loaded with news features that will further put VMware ahead of Citrix and Microsoft Enterprise Virtualization products.I am a beta tester on VMWare ESX 4. The most intriguing feature i liked in vSphere is host policy feature.
vSphere (VMware ESX 4) host profile:
A [...]
VMware Fusion 2 for MacOS for $39.99
Mac OS X VMware Fusion 2 for $39.99
VMware Fusion 2 allows Mac OS X users to double the number of virtual CPU’s that can be assigned to guest virtual machine. VMware Fusion 2 also offers experimental support for 4-way vSMP virtual machines.If you are a Mac user and want to run Microsoft Windows Operating [...]
Fixed VMware Error Failed to create journal File provider
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
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Last week while working doing new VMware View setup i was deploying some Windows XP desktops running as VMware ESX guest , i noticed some weirdness.
I received this error when i was deploying Windows XP workstation from VMware Virtual Center :
A general error [...]
