Interesting: Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community.
Very silent 92mm fans for the front of an HP XW6600. Be sure to use the non PWM fan type.
–jeroen
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Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16
Posted in ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Hardware, HP XW6600, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Important when migrating to ESXi 5.5: “Do not upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs!” (via: v-front.de)
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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Solution for “This virtual machine’s policies are too old to be run by this version of VMware [Fusion|Workstation].”
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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Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started (via: TinkerTry IT @ home)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13
For my links archive:
- TinkerTry IT @ home | Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started.
- TinkerTry IT @ home | My VMware’s “You either are not entitled or do not have permissions to download this product.” error, and what to do about it..
–jeroen
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Some links about VMware ESXi, SSD and TRIM/UNMAP support
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:
- Does ESXi support TRIM on SSDs and does it function? | FreeNAS Community.
- VMware Front Experience: FAQ: Using SSDs with ESXi.
- ESXi 5.1 + SSD’s = A headache in the making | Life of Stu.
- TinkerTry IT @ home | SSD Background Garbage Collection and VMware ESXi 5.
Oh: many people boot their ESXi server from USB as it gives them more flexibility:
–jeroen
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Lots of 2.5, 3.5 and 5.25 conversion brackets, cages and hot-swap bays
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:
- IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller for System x – Forum – Tweakers.
Het grote DIY RAID NAS topic deel 3 – Opslagtechnologie – GoT.
PCI-e 8 Port HBA for ZFS – Suggestions for 4TB+ support – [H]ard|Forum.
For high-density data,
- a 15mm 2.5inch 2TB drive: Toshiba MQ01ABB, 2TB – Prijzen – Tweakers.
- 1TB and 1.5TB drives of various heights: Interne harde schijven – Prijzen en Specificaties – Tweakers.
For fast data:
- SSDs around 1TB: Solid state drives – Prijzen en Specificaties – Tweakers.
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:
- Delock 5.25 Wechselrahmen für 4 x 2.5 SATA HDD.
Has no fan, fits quad drives up to 14.5mm height. - MB994SP-4SB-1_ToughArmor Series_2.5″ SAS/SATA CAGES_ICY DOCK.
Has fan, fits quad drives up to 15mm height. Read the rest of this entry »
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VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5
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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History: run HD image with Borland’s Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0/7.0 and Microsoft’s QuickPascal 1.0 in VMware Fusion
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:
- A full version of MS-DOS 6.22 (MSDN Original)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0 (main)
- Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Microsoft QuickPascal 1.0
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.
DOS on a Mac
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Clean Up And Shrink VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines With Ease | The Webernets
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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Steps for shrinking a vmware disk for a Windows guest VM inside VMware Workstation of VMware Fusion
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:
- VMware KB: Defragmenting, shrinking, and cleaning up VMware Fusion virtual machine disks.
- VMware KB: Defragmenting and shrinking VMware Workstation virtual machine disks.
The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »
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