Month: October 2008

Installing and Using VMware Server

This procedure explains a VMware product, called VMware Server. It is software that runs on top of an operating system, usually Windows 2003, VMware Server would be installed on it and virtual machines would run on it. The Bad, that the S.O. base is already consuming resources that could be leveraged by VMs, or we have to pay Microsoft directly for a Windows license 2003 that we won't use for anything, just to have VMware Server installed. The Good, which is totally free and we can have several machines installed and running at the same time, We can manage them remotely with the “VMware Server Console” from any PC on the network, We can run scripts…

Installing and Using VMware Player

This procedure explains a VMware product, called VMware Player. It is software that runs on top of an operating system, it can be a Linux, a Windows XP or a 2003, VMware Player would be installed on it and virtual machines would run on it with the OS. that interests us, both for testing, Research How to End Use. The Bad, that the S.O. base is already consuming resources that could be leveraged by VMs, or we have to pay Microsoft directly for a Windows license. The VMware Player is lightweight software for using virtual machines, With it we will not be able to create machines but we will be able to execute them and modify certain parameters of them.

Virtualize Physical Computers with VMware P2V – VMware Physical to Virtual Assistant

With this VMware product we will be able to virtualize servers/hosts to VMware virtual machines. We have two ways to do it, one by installing it on a server to virtualize itself; or boot the server we are interested in with a bootable CD called VMware P2V BootCD and connect to it from another computer with this software installed to do a remote virtualization.

Extending Storage on VMware ESX – Extending a LUN and having VMware ESX extend its VMFS partition

This document shows how to extend the VMware ESX partition. If for whatever reason we want to expand a LUN and this LUN is the shared storage of our VMware ESX servers, we must extend the VMFS partition by following these steps. In any case, it is not advisable to do so, it is always preferable to create a new LUN with the available free size. But if necessary, here we have how to do it. Even so, for it to extend correctly, it is advisable to stop the virtual machines that are running on this LUN (By experience).

VMWare ESX Installation and Configuration 3.0.1

VMWare ESX es un sistema operativo de VMWare basado en Linux, que nos sirve para ahorrarnos el tener un sistema operativo corriendo en un servidor y luego alojar las maquinas virtuales ahi, por muchísimas razones es una gran herramienta. Nos ahorra tener una licencia de W2003 en el servidor (For example), nos da más recursos, ya que el sistema operativo los consumiría y este casi no, es una distribución bastante ligerita de linux, y directamente por que nos deja personalizar las maquinas virtuales con muchas opciones.