As far as I know, when users installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free version) they can use it in three way, for 60 days in trial period with full feature, they can enter their free license or they can use the license they bought which means more feature would be available for use.
Upgrading ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1
If you search on the internet you would find many communities post, blogs and web site about “How to upgrade ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1”. Well, thats true but I’m writing my own experience with ESXi 4.0 which has Cisco Nexus 1000v (trial of course) and it’s upgrade process. the process and steps can be […]
Veeam Monitor 5.0 (Public Beta)
Well, NoVeeam has introduced “Veeam Montior 5.0 Beta” in this week which comes with new features, enhancements and dashboard as some of them are listed below: Support for vSphere 4.1 In addition to local and fibre channel/iSCSI storage, NFS storages are now can be monitored. Storage paths and storage adapters including load balancing status *, […]
VCAP4-DCD PF (Progress Form)
Hi, Well, first of all thanks to Jon Hall and Andre M for their time, consideration and helps. In first place as I’m working toward VCAP4-DCD Certification and as long as it’s blueprint out from VMware, I’ve created a simple spreadsheet for checking my learning/studying progress, as I’m always doing this for all of my […]
TSM and SSH on ESXi 4.1
I’ve installed the VMware ESXi 4.1 on my home lab for learning purpose. Today I decided to enable SSH on ESXi 4.1 for further use and also check the TSM (Tech Support Mode) on ESXi 4.1 in order to checking the different area on the ESXi itself. So as usual I pressed the ALT+F1 and […]
Running VMware ESXi 4.1 on VMware ESXi 4.0
It seem there’s some problem on installing VMware ESXi 4.1 on the ESXi 4.0 (which mentioned by “Eric Gray” on his site “vCritical” as an UPDATE for his article) and the underlying platform should be ESXi 4.1. I have problem on installing it directly on the ESXi 4.0, but there’s always a way to reach […]
Running two VMware ESXi 4.1 on only 2GB RAM
Hi, During my testing VMware ESXi 4.1 which is the last version currently, I’ve installed it on two VM on my VMware Workstation 7.1 which supporting ESX 4.0 as guest OS. The system I’m used on my working place have Intel E5300 CPU, 2GB DDR2 Memory and running Windows XP SP3. There are some good […]
Missing Posts?
Hi, My hosting has an upgrade and unfortunately my site faced 3 days down time. After I get my site back, some of my recent posts are missing and I’d try to recover them ASAP. I get backup from various parts (exporting from WP, backing up DB itself, copy whole files and …) but finally […]
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Finally I had chance and time to install and test the “VMware Heartbeat” which I had learnt to install, configure and use during one of my course. There’s some note about this software which I think they may be good to mention as may be they come useful in latter exams 😉 You need at […]
vCenter alarms and sending emails
Hi everyone I’m writing this note just for whom need to get familiar and need help on configuring vCenter alarm to use email. It would be useful for admins and support team to get the latest news on their email, so let start.