Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/14
Thanks to the guys at v-front.de/2013/09/how-to-update-your-standalone-host-to.html
Do not upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs!
If you try to upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs to the new revision 10 after you have updated the host to ESXi 5.5 then the following warning will be displayed by the vSphere Client:
“If you upgrade the virtual hardware to this level, use the vSphere Web Client for managing these VMs.”
– Think twice here! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
If you ever get the error message
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Fusion.
or
This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware Workstation.
Then the solution is really simple: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
For my links archive:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
These posts seem to describe the current state of the art about ESXi and SSD support, especially with respect to TRIM/UNMAP:
Oh: many people boot their ESXi server from USB as it gives them more flexibility:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
To get me some ideas on what is available on the market right now: ADATA, CORSAIR, CRUCIAL, PLEXTOR, SAMSUNG, INTEL & OCZ SSD (SG OFFICIAL DISTROS WTY).
For ZFS, this seems the controller of choice:
For high-density data,
For fast data:
Everything needs to fit in something like this HP XW6600. For Raid-Z3 you need many drives according to Raid Calculator | Raid Disk Space Utilization Calculator | ServeTheHomeSTH – Server and Workstation Reviews (as it can loose 3 drives: ZFS Raidz Performance, Capacity and Integrity Comparison @ Calomel.org) another calculator for risks: RAID Reliability Calculator – Simple MTTDL Model – ServeTheHomeSTH – Server and Workstation Reviews.
You can also use the below bays for instance for Finding Uses for Old 2.5″ Hard Drives | | Que.
A few remarks on 2.5inch disk solutions:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Interesting: VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/12
Edit 20250102: added various “[Wayback/Archive]” archival links, VMware information, amended TUWA location, and added alternative csboot.zip download location on the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine download is broken and the original gone)
A really long time ago, I posted in [Wayback/Archive] history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers indicating there was a [Wayback/Archive] Hard Disk Image of MS-DOS 6.22 with Pascal for Computer Studies. In fact, that is an IMG file of a DOS hard disk. And this posts shows how to use it with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X. The is a hard disk image contains:
Edit 20250102: does not work under VMware Fusion when you run Apple Silicon. Not figured out a performant alternative yet. Will try figuring out later.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/29
While getting a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement, I upgraded from VMware Fusion 4 to VMware Fusion 6 and found out it is really easy to Clean Up And Shrink VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines With Ease | The Webernets.
That saved me bout 100 gigabyte across in total.
Sometimes tiny things not much advertised make an upgrade worthwhile.
Note that as usual some restrictions apply (like not having snapshots, having a backup, and the machines needing to be in the “shut down state), but it went really really smooth (probably the SSD helps a lot here).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13
Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.
These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:
The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
Just in case I ever need to do this again: How to downgrade my VM to Hardware Version 8 in Fusion 5 and Workstation 9 – SkytapDocs.
It is easy, and I needed to move a VMware Workstation 9 VM to a machine that had only VMware Fusion 4 installed (various reasons, mainly backward compatibility with some very old Windows VMs that VMware Fusion 6 complains about but which as going to be phased out “real soon now“).
–jeroen
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