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Publish VMware vSphere client with TMG 2010
0There are situations in small environments when you need to access your ESX/ESXi server from the internet, for troubleshooting or just to create or restart a virtual machine. I bet that’s a piece of cake for some of you, but what if you have a TMG server as a firewall. Well…things are not so easy any more, but they are not complicated either. If you have a situation like this, where a TMG 2010 server acts as a firewall for you or for some of your clients, and want to access an ESX/ESXi server from the internet, then you came to the right place. (more…)
Add users in VMware vCenter
0I bet everything went great in your VMware infrastructure, until the company hired a junior admin to help you with the work. Now that’s not a bad thing, but you can’t just give him/her full permissions to your vCenter from the start, because it needs to learn the infrastructure first and get familiar with it. If adding a user to your VMware vCenter infrastructure is a challenge, no worry, I will show you how is done in just a second. (more…)
Replacing VMware ESX server default (self signed) certificate
0I bet you got tired of those annoying certificate messages every time you connect to your ESX/ESXi servers. And is not just about the messages, is more about trusting the host, you or your users connect to. There are situations when you need to have a proper and a trusted certificate on you ESX/ESXi hosts, and in this guide I’m going to show you how to replace the default (self signed) certificate with a proper one. (more…)
In-place upgrade from VMware ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5
0For those small businesses that don’t afford buying VMware vCenter and want to upgrade from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5, an in-place upgrade is the only way to go. In this guide I’m going to show you the steps involved in the upgrade process. For this lab I have an ESX 4.1 server with some virtual machines located on the local datastore, so no iSCSI or Fiber Channel Storage is connected to the server. Even if they were connected the process will be the same. (more…)
Convert VMware virtual machines to Hyper-V virtual machines
0I know that some of you out there have mixed virtual environments using Hyper-V and VMware, and I also know that allot of times you need to convert virtual machines from one platform to another. In this guide I’m going to show you how to convert virtual machines from a VMware platform to a Hyper-V platform using two products; one is free an the other one costs. The free one is called StarWind V2V Image Converter, and the paid one is Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The version of SCVMM I am using for this guide is 2008 R2 with SP1. (more…)
Installing VMware vSphere 5 Web Client Server
0VMware vSphere 5 Web Client Server is a web management console for your vCenter infrastructure. Yes, you can configure and manage vSphere hosts and virtual machines in your vCenter infrastructure even if you are thousand miles away. Just open a browser, login in and you are good to go. In this guide I’m going to show you how to install the vSphere 5 Web Client Server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. (more…)
Creating virtual machines in VMware vCenter 5
0Creating virtual machines was an easy job in previous versions of vCenter, and it’s still is, just a couple of options changed during the wizard. In this post I’ll show you how to create a new virtual machine on a ESXi 5 host using vCenter 5. (more…)
Install VMware (vSphere) ESXi 5 in VMware Workstation 8
0I think you already installed VMware Workstation 8 on your PC, as a result of the new features. Version 8 has native support for VMware ESXi 5 meaning, you can run ESXi servers inside VMware Workstation without hacking the .vmx file. The good news, is you can create and run 64bit VMs inside that virtualized ESXi server which runs in VMware Workstation. You should never run this in a production environment, is just for “fun”. To be able to do this your host processor needs to support Virtualization Technology. I run this lab on a Intel i7 930 processor, so is green light for me. (more…)
How to create a VMware Cluster
0To be able to create a VMware cluster you need vCenter, and at least two ESX Servers. For this guide I’m going to use ESXi 5 and vCenter 5. ESXi hosts are already added to vCenter. I’m not going to discuss about cluster features like HA (High Availability) and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduling), I will talk about them in future posts. (more…)
Convert virtual machines using VMware vCenter Converter 5
0Starting with version 5 VMware Converter can’t be installed any more as a plugin in vCenter, it’s a separate product now. If you have to convert some machines from different platforms you need to go on VMware site and download the VMware Converter Standalone kit. In this guide I will show how to convert a Hyper-V virtual machine, to a VMware virtual machine in a vCenter Infrastructure. Go and download the converter from here, and install the product on your technician PC. (more…)
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