Just a simple script to back up ESXi configs to a file on a remote Windows Server:
Set ESXiPassword=[put your password here]
perl “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin\vicfg-cfgbackup.pl” –server [hostname of server] –username root –password %ESXiPassword% -s [path to .cfg file for backup]
Yes, it’s simple for a single server, but you can enter all of your servers in one [...]
Without SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure, which is released now, it is somewhat more difficult to do NetApp snapshots. But if you are in a position where you must be creative about this, I’ve written a script to do so. i’m sure that if you have the capital get SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure it will be [...]
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Maybe I just took for granted that ESXi 3.5 wouldn’t work at all with IDE disks. So much so, I went out and bought a 250GB SATA disk just for the expressed purpose of hosting my VMs on ESXi at home.
Apparently I was wrong. This weekend I moved my VM Host from one computer to another, [...]
If using vmkfstool to convert your VMWare Server’s vmdk file to an ESX or ESXi file is not as convenient as it could be, you’ve got an alternative you can run inside of windows to do the same thing.
In VMWare Server 2.0 (RC or beta at this point), there’s a nice command line tool to [...]
As a followup to my prior post on VMWare ESXi being free now, I’ve taken the plunge and changed over my home servers from VMWare Server 1.0 to ESX 3.5i. The biggest thought was for performance and just something new to play with.
The first step was to see if I could get it installed on [...]
VMWare, in what is apparently is a move to better compete with Microsoft’s Hyper-V, is giving aware ESXi for free!
http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html
Granted, the HCL for it isn’t the longest. But i’ve read as long as you don’t use IDE Hard Disks (SATA seems to be okay) for the storage system, it will install on many other types of [...]
The promise of an easy transition from 32bit to 64bit is something we’ve heard for a long time, and while late, my first taste of it on the desktop operating system side has been somewhat less than seamless than I thought.
The good: Most applications work, and driver availability is still pretty good. Performance seems to [...]
I’ve been using VMWare in a production environment for a couple of years now, and using VMWare just for testing since around 2003. Nearly 100% of my experience has been in Microsoft environments. The respect for linux has always been there - it is just hard to swallow your pride and start from scratch, relearning [...]
