Difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0
Here is the Post with the Difference between ESX 3.5 & ESX 4. I believe this would be the one of the definite questions in interview. Will working towards to bring the differences between all...
View ArticleDifference between vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5
I am getting lot of request from email to post the difference between the vSphere 4.0 and vSphere 5.0. Here the post for the requests and I believe this could be the definite questions in interviews...
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Moving ESX Hosts between Clusters
This post tells you the different ways to move the ESX host between the clusters .There are 2 different ways to move the ESX hosts between the clusters.Method 1: Move ESX Host from cluster by placing...
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ESXi Local Disk Showing under Remote disk during Installation
Today While installing ESXi5 in HP Blade server, I got a strange issue that My local SAS Raid disk is showing under Remote disk. I was confused that may be some of the LUN have detected with this...
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VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes - ESXESXi and vCenter Upgrade paths
This post is to inform you all about the excellent link from VMware which tells about the upgrade path/Solution interoperability of ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server....
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Upgrade Datastore from VMFS3 to VMFS5
In previous versions of vSphere, VMFS upgrade can only be performed form command line but vSphere5 have an in-build GUI option to upgrade to VMFS 5 version.Upgrading from VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 can be...
View ArticleTroubleshoot VMware tools uninstallation issues
Today when i was working with v2v migration of windows 2000 server, I got a strange issue while upgrading VMware tools after migrating virtual machine from ESX 2.5 to ESXi 5.0. VMware tools upgrade...
View ArticleRaw Device Mapping (RDM) use cases & Limitations
Raw device mapping (RDM) is method to provide direct access to a LUN on a iscsi or fibre channel storage system for a virtual machine. RDM is basically a Mapping file acts as a proxy for a raw physical...
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P2V Error: IP address already assigned to another adapter
After P2V migration, I have faced the IP Conflict issue multiple times in windows operating systems with the error stating "The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is...
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Shrink Virtual Machine VMDK
We got a request to reduce the allocated size of Thick provisioned Virtual machines hard disk. Increasing the VMDK size can be done in GUI but decreasing the size of VMDK is not allowed. In most cases,...
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ESXi License Expired - Impacts
This post is best suited for the admins mainly using VMware ESXi installed for their test purposes and the license of ESXi expired after 60 days.This post tells you that what are the impacts or feature...
View ArticleVMware Interview Questions - History of ESX/ESXi Release Versions
I came across a excellent post from Eric Siebert with the collection of build info for various products of VMware. I would like to share the content with few modification by removing the download link...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions
This Blog post is to provide you with the details of virtual machine's hardware version in align with the VMware product that you are using.This post may be helpful as a quick reference to make sure...
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Connect to ISO image on local disk - Disconnect on Reboot
This post is especially for the windows or Linux admins who were struggling to boot the windows or linux VM's from the ISO on the local disk during the OS boot failure. Most of cases, they work with...
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ESXi5 Command Line Reference - Networking Part1
This post is for the VMware administrators who started working in vSphere5 editions from vSphere 4 because ESX4 commands to configure networking is "esxcfg-" but esxi5 networking is configured with...
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ESXi5 Command Line Reference - Networking Part 2
This post covers the creation,modification and deletion of virtual switches,distributed virtual switches and Port Group etc using the command esxcli network vswitch. under switch options it has 2...
View ArticlePrivate Cloud Hosting
Cloud Computing is the computing resources like hardware,software or application delivered over the internet.There are 2 types of Cloud1.Private cloud2.Public CloudPrivate cloud is also called as...
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VMware Performance Monitoring - Free Solarwinds VM Monitor Part 1
This post for the admins who really looking for free tools for VMware Performance Monitoring.One of the great free performance monitoring tools for ESX,ESXi and hyper-v server is "Solarwinds VM...
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VMware Performance Monitoring - Free Solarwinds VM Monitor Part 2
This post is the continuation of part 1(VMware Performance Monitoring - Free Solarwinds VM Monitor Part 1) . We will take a look at how add the ESX servers into VM Monitor and also monitroing...
View ArticlevExpert 2013 Application
The Day has arrived for vExpert 2013 nomination. I was waiting from few months for this opportunity. vExpert program is for the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the...
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