Month: June 2009

Virtualize VMware ESX 4 on a virtual machine and run virtual machines within it

Yes, as the title says, a VMware ESX can be virtualized 4.0 inside another VMware VM, and also, be able to create and boot virtual machines within our virtual VMware ESX!!! Logically we are talking about a test environment and never for production, as it is ideal for setting up your own lab if you don't have enough VMware ESX-compatible hardware 4.0 and want to try out the new features (Fault Tolerance or FT, vNetwork Distributed Switch or DVS, Host Profiles Linked VC… Let's go vSphere) or if you want to perform a testing lab… it is also done in a few very simple and quick steps.

Installing VMware ESX 4.0

Simple document on how to perform a basic installation of a VMware ESX host or server 4.0, It will be a simple installation with no setup during installation more than the basic one. We should keep in mind that before installing VMware ESX on any physical server, we must always enable the virtualization technology of our processor, either Intel VT or AMD-V at the server BIOS level.

Recreating the descriptor file from a .vmdk file

There are times, that either due to a poorly deleted snapshot or an unexpected shutdown of the VM the .vmdk of the same is corrupted losing the information of the VM. “configuration” and leaving us the raw virtual hard drive; normally, midisco-flat.vmdk Si nos ocurre esta situación, The most likely thing is that the virtual machine will give us the error “File not found” When trying to start. The procedure to follow is to recreate the descriptors() of the virtual disk(s).

Configuring Symantec Backup Exec granular backup 12.5 on an Exchange Server 2007

Well, In this document we see a somewhat fussy topic that sometimes gets annoying, since you have to be careful with all the configuration steps so that it does not fail. In the document we will see how to configure our Symantec Backup Exec backup server 12.5 so you can back up every mailbox in our Microsoft Exchange organization at the email level 2007, in case of loss of mail, Be able to individually retrieve each email, or at a general level a mailbox or the entire private/public mail database.

Deploy the custom XenApp Plugin client in Citrix Web Interface 5.1

If we want to put the latest version of the Citrix client on our web Interface, every time someone connects us with an obsolete client and also be able to customize the installer a little to make it even easier to connect, since those who connect are not Citrix experts, We can combine several functionalities. This document explains how to do this with the native client, if you need to have all the customers, it would be enough to copy the Clients folder from the Citrix CD to the Web Interface directory.

Free and interesting utilities for Citrix environments

In this document we see a series of quite interesting utilities, especially for Citrix environments, although there are some for Microsoft or VMware environments, They are all taken from the http website://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar, We can download all of them in the pack called: CtxAdmTools. With them we will be able to list, export, Import and make bulk modifications in our Citrix communities, it is always quite interesting to be able to export something in case the DB gets corrupted, ¿No?