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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

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More links:

 

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

Ghetto Mod: xw6400 xw6600 front case fans – HP Enterprise Business Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16

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

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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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:

Oh: many people boot their ESXi server from USB as it gives them more flexibility:

–jeroen

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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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ESX(i) AutoStart virtual machines: how to change the VM startup/shutdown settings (via: VMware Communities)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/15

Since it usually is a one-off setting, I find it hard to remember how to configure the startup/shutdown behaviour of VM guests in an ESX(i)/vSphere environment.

Adding to the confusion is that this is a setting on your host, not on guest VMs.

Luckiliy, Jase McCarty and others explained this on the VMware communities, which I sligly edited:

Look under the configuration tab, at “Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown”.

Choose Properties.  You can configure the startup/shutdown here.

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In the VMware Infrastructure Client (on newer installs this is called VMware vSphere Client) I client you’ll want to select the host.

Then click on the Configuration Tab and you should see Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown.

Select that and then click on Properties (this is on the upper right corer, not intuitive).

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Hi Im using ESXi 4.0 and vSphere client, but the “Edit” button is grayed out or not active in the VM Startup/Shutdown propertiessystem settings. Is this license issue, does ESXi 4.0 doesnt support autostart of virtual machine anymore?

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Click on the Move Up button to move a virtual machine to Automatic Startup or Any Order.

The trick is twofold:

  • there are 3 sections (a bit hidden in the documentation: Automatic Startup, Any Order and Manual Startup – Manual Startup is default)
  • the Move Up and Move Down buttons move VM guests not only within a section, but also across sections.

Click on the screenshot below to see a larger version. Read the rest of this entry »

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HP xw6600 Workstation – The Computer Setup F10 Utility: enabling Intel VT so you can run VMware ESXi or vSphere on it

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/25

On a HP XW6600, you can run ESXi 4 or run ESXi 5, but in yourder to run x64 guest VMs, you need to enable Intel VT in the BIOS first.

So, in the HP XW6600 BIOS, the choose the menu “Security”, then the submenu “OS Security” to get at these two options:

  • Intel Virtualization Technology (VTx)—Enables or disables Intel Virtualization Technology to increase workstation performance.
  • Intel IO Virtualization—Enables or disables Virtualization Technology to increase workstation I/O performance.

When you enable both VT options, then VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere can run x64 guests with full VT support (otherwise you will get a friendly warning message when you try to setup or run such a guest VM). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in BIOS, Boot, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Hardware, HP XW6600, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | 3 Comments »

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