Sometimes using a command line is much more faster than using GUI. Personally I found VMware Virtual Center always have bugs. The following article will guide you how to use vmware-cmd VM management tool for some basic VMware administrative tasks.
The figure below illustrates states, transitions, and state changing commands for virtual machines.
List path and names [...]
I would like to thanks to VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 BUG, it’s really make it busy today. Thanks god, it’s only happen to few of my VM guest and most of them are not mission critical machine.
Anyway, an official letter from VMware CEO Paul Maritz said about 2 failed.
Not disabling the code in [...]
Less than five months after the first release, Veeam Backup 2.0 has been released!
The interesting features like:
Real-time statistics and reports
Support for VMware ESXi (free of charge)
Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) in Windows guest OSes backup
Support for 3rd party tape backup devices
Backup and replication combined
Fast file-level recovery
Database-consistent backup
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VMware have been released the Update 2 for ESX (build 103908) and VirtualCenter (104215).
This new version brings a number of important features including:
Cross-processors VMotion (auto-configuration of AMD-V Extended Migration and Intel FlexMigration)
Virtual machines live snapshot through Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) (only Windows 2003 and 2008 guest OSes)
Virtual machines live cloning
Virtual disks hot-extension (only for [...]
Look at my VMware ESX Server CPU Resources.
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As you can see from graph above, my VMware ESX Server running for more than 85% - 97% of CPU resources.
Basically I have 2 VMware ESX 3.5 running on top of Dell R900, Intel Xeon E7330 @2.4 Ghz processor and 128 RAM on each [...]
