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Archive for March 23rd, 2014

Moving Mac OS X VMware Fusion VMs to ESXi (via: Ask Different)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Interesting read: vmware – Moving Fusion VMs to ESXi – Ask Different.

I was kind of expecting something like this, as VMware has been notoriously bad at proving Mac OS X tools (whereas their VMware Workstation for Linux is on par with their Windows product, Linux also lacks a vSphere Client and a standalone VMware vCentre Converter).

Good to have my expectations confirmed. Not so good that this is a tedious process.

Note that you need twice the disk size on your Mac, as you recreate the vmdk files on your Mac in a format that ESXi understands.

Oh well…

Note there are even more tedious ways, but good to know they exist.

I really wish VMware Fusion could do what you can do with VMware Workstation to manage your ESXi hosts (including Free ESXi) & VMs.

–jeroen

via:

More links:

 

Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Fusion, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account (via: Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

I’ve bitten by this too many times, so here is the link: How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account.

And the steps:

  1. Almost af the bottom of the “Sign in to your Microsoft account” screen is a seemingly disabled “Create a new account” clickable area.
    Click it!
  2. Then you get into a new screen with a deceiving “Create a Microsoft account” title, but also a “Sign in without a Microsoft account” clickable area.
    Click there.
  3. Now create a new local account that is not bound to any email address.

Thanks magicandre1981 for the pictures in the linked post: very helpful!

–jeroen

via: How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account – Super User.

 

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

Optimizing Delphi build speeds (via; Vin Colgin – Google+; IDE FixPack; DelphiSpeedUp, Microsoft KBs with speed fixes)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

An interesting thread by Vin Colgin – Google+ – IDE FixPack 5.4.1 shows 36.5% increase in BUILD speed under….

The post and discussion covers these topics:

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | Tagged: , | 9 Comments »

Best Buy Guides (BBGs) – mux’ blog – Tweakblogs – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Interesting as it talks about both ZFS and ESXi servers with ECC memory: Best Buy Guides (BBGs) – mux’ blog – Tweakblogs – Tweakers.

Posted in *nix, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, ZFS | Leave a Comment »

Keen IO – The API for Custom Analytics; store lots of events later perform visualizations and transformations

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

On my research list.

For massive event storage and data analysis: Keen IO – The API for Custom Analytics.

–jeroen

Posted in Database Development, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Windows command-line: Finding default routes and setting their metric

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

When you have multiple network connections, sometimes you want to prefer one to be used as “default” (i.e. because it has higher speed or lower latency).

Windows already tries to accommodate for that by assigning “metrics” to your network connections. They depend on the kind of network (wired over wireless) and speed of the connection.

To see the current default network routes and their metrics, you use the route print command and filter it with findstr like this:

route print | findstr /C:"Metric" /C:" 0.0.0.0"

The “0.0.0.0” string is to filter out the default routes, and “Metric” includes the header line.

For one of my XP machines, the result is this:


Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.71.1 192.168.71.28 10
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.171.1 192.168.171.140 10

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Now, even though both metric are 10, my 192.168.71.1 gateway is much slower than my 192.168.171.1 gateway, so I want to prefer the last one. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

VMware ESXi 5.5 LSI MegaRaid 9271: Firmware Update / Driver & CIM Provider Installation – VMware – IT-News, Tutorials, Reviews, Gaming – skV-NET

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Soon I’m going to update the ESXi 5.1 with the youngest LSI 9260 driver and CIM from MegaRAID 9260-8i RAID Controller Card | SAS RAID | LSI.

Steps are at VMware ESXi 5.5 LSI MegaRaid 9271: Firmware Update / Driver & CIM Provider Installation – VMware – IT-News, Tutorials, Reviews, Gaming – skV-NET.

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi | 1 Comment »

How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Gosh I hate it when on a Windows machine your printer list is like a 100 when visiting a couple of clients and friends.

Disable this seems easy How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP, but note there is no “Advanced” button so better follow the steps at Windows XP – How do I Disable the auto Network Printer Ins.. – Network Printer – Windows XP.

Now lets find out how to do that in Windows versions beyond XP (:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Interesting: ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net. It works in ESXi 5.5 too, and the French link below has a version that runs on ESXi 4.

Now you can do these forms of backup:

Posted in *nix, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, wget | 6 Comments »

ESXi: for high speed copying from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 use @Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3, not Veeam Backup and Replication 6.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

I had to move a bunch of stuff from an old ESXI 4.1 server to a newer ESXi 5.1 server.

For that I used a Windows XP VM on the new ESXI 5.1 server that had two different 1 gigabit network connections so it could run full speed.

Speed comparison for 60 gigabytes of VMs:

I used both settings for both tools: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5.1, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows XP | 6 Comments »