Archive for the 'VMware' Category

How to add a raw mapping device on VMware

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

VMware ESX Server offers two choices for managing disk access in a virtual machine—VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and raw device mapping (RDM). It is very important to understand the I/O characteristics of these disk access management systems in order to choose the right access type for a particular application. Choosing the right disk access [...]

Adding a new Hard Disk in SLES

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

For any system that can avoid downtime would be a great solution for system admin like me. I have a request from customer ask for additional 10G partition for /u03 due to emergency request in my SuSE Linux Enterprise Server running on top of VMware ESX host.
Adding a new hdd in VMware is pretty simple. [...]

VMware ESX 3.5.1 Updated

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

VMware Inc. released VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 on 10 April 2008 and I made time to apply on my ESX development box today.

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VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta Open for Public Download

Friday, April 4th, 2008

VMware just posted about VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta, Build 84113 open for public download. This might be a point five release but it will ship with the “Unity” feature that allows you to “hide” the desktop and show just the virtual guest’s applications on top of the hosts desktop. So we can call it [...]

Running FreeNAS on Vmware ESX and VMware Workstation

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My previous test about running OpenFiler as iSCSI target for VMware ESX on my desktop working well. As part of my on going testing with VMware ESX Server, I tested running FreeNAS version 0.686 on my VMware ESX version 3.01 and VMware Workstation 6.
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, [...]