Tag: Vmware vSphere

VMware Labs presents its latest fling Guest Reclaim . Guest Reclaim reclaims dead space from NTFS volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk. The tool can also reclaim space from full disks and partitions, thereby wiping off the file systems on it. As the tool deals with active data,…Continue readingLatest fling from VMware Labs – VMware Guest Reclaim

I had come across a instance where my vCenter Crashed and it didn\’t want to start. Tried many things to troubleshoot. In order to get the things sorted out I reinstalled vCenter on another VM with the existing database. (This may not be the right thing to do) I would…Continue readingvCenter Recovery

VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere is a free, downloadable product for checking compliance of vSphere environment to help you ensure that it remains secure and compliant. It provides detailed compliance checks against the VMware vSphere Hardening Guidelines. For example, you can print the reports that Compliance Checker produces, and can…Continue readingFREE – VMware Compliance Checker Tools for vSphere

SEE for FREE:     A real-time health index that monitors the health of every object on your virtual infrastructure powered     VMs, networks, hosts/hypervisors, datastores, apps, clients devices in one pane of glass     Real-time continuous UI with ability to DVR record anything     Rich historical reporting on VM, hypervisor,…Continue readingFree VMware visibility and troubleshooting tool

When powering on virtual machines, the vSphere Web Client reports the error: Permission to perform this operation was denied For Complete KB Article Click Here

This white paper by VMware Technical Marketing looks at common storage protocols from a vSphere perspectiver.It describes and compares following protocols iSCSI NFS Fibre Channel Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) For Complete White Paper Click Here

In this video, we can learn how to migrate virtual machines using vMotion migration. vMotion migration allows you to move a virtual machine that\’s powered on from one host to another. VMware vSphere Training: Migration – vMotion

This lab builder kit by Alastair Cooke is designed to produce a nested vSphere 5.0 or 4.1 lab environment with the minimum effort. Prebuilt shell VMs are provided along with automation for the installation of operating systems and applications into these VMs. The lab build was originally created to aid study towards…Continue readingVMware vSphere Auto Lab

The much anticipated vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide Public Draft has been released by VMware http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19056

VMware has confirmed that source code for one of its products has been exposed online. The company said that it became aware of the code on 23 April, and has confirmed that it is from its VMware ESX product, which is used by enterprises to run virtualised environments http://www.zdnet.com.au/vmware-source-code-stolen-339336683.htmhttp://blogs.vmware.com/security/2012/04/vmware-security-note.html