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Convert VMs to XenServer

If we want to convert VMware Server VMs, VMware ESX, Microsoft Virtual Server or Microsoft Virtual PC to Xen Virtual Appliance Format (XVA) we must use the v2xva Virtual Disk Migration Utility application (a V2V app). We go to their official website and download the binary or the sources depending on our OS. (HTTP://tx.downloads.xensource.com/products/v2xva/), be careful that it is only useful to convert virtual machines with Windows from S.O. client and run it from a Windows XP/2003 R2 or Vista as administrator.

Creating a .flp file for use with Virtual Floppy.

In this document, I will try to explain how to make advanced use of the Virtual Floppy in a Virtual Machine, either with VMWare Workstation, Server, ESX or ESXi. In the beginning, We will no longer need the use of this support, But we all know, that on certain occasions, The easiest thing would be to take a floppy drive with us 3 1/2 USB on top. With this procedure, We learn how to create an image in .flp with drivers, or a boot floppy disk for later use on the VM.

SolarWinds VM Monitor – Monitoring ESX and its VMs with SNMP

This is a free and quite convenient utility to manage our VMware Infrastructure virtual environment. Through SNMP it will pass us basic information about the virtual machines that each ESX server has. It will give us information about the CPU used, RAM used as your network traffic (Tx & Rx).

Installing VMware ESXi on a USB flash drive

En este documento se verá cómo instalar en un Pendrive USB un host de VMware ESXi, in this case a VMware ESX 3.5i, and be able to boot from any VMware-supported computer, Your free hypervisor. Of course,, Whether virtual machines enter the pen drive is another story, we will need a separate storage to put the VM's with their VMFS format. The point is, first download the ESXi from the VMware website – HERE.

Connecting an iSCSI-enabled Openfiler NAS to VMware ESX

In this document, we'll look at how to connect an ESX server to a shared storage system, for this we will use an Openfiler NAS, using iSCSI. To configure this document, it is assumed that we already have an Openfiler server installed and with a volume created of the iSCSI type to be able to use HA or DRS with VMotion. And of course a virtual network connection that allows VMotion.

Installing the VMware Update Manager Extension to Keep Your Virtual Environment Up to Date

En este documento se muestra cómo habilitar el plugin de VMware Update Manager. Esta extensión que se instala en el cliente de VMware nos permitirá mantener actualizado nuestro entorno virtual, no sólo los servidores ESX, si no que también las VMware Tools, los servidores virtuales Microsoft Windows o Linux con sus parches de seguridad.

Installing the VMware Infrastructure Client 2.5

In this brief document we will see how we should install the VMware infrastructure client, for VI3. This customer can be installed in any position, and we will use it exclusively to connect to VMware ESX servers in order to manage them or to a VMware VirtualCenter server.

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).

How to Extend a Virtual Machine's Hard Drive in VMware ESX

One of the advantages of VMware is that we can expand the hard disks of virtual machines easily and whenever we have space available. To do this, it can be done in two ways, either by command or by GUI.

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.