VMware Mirage – Migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1

One of the many new features that the version brought 5 VMware Mirage was Windows support 8 and Windows 8.1 as a centralizing desktop and at the same time gives us the possibility to migrate Windows systems 7 to Windows 8/8.1 in a very simple and very fast way. In this document we will see how to deploy a corporate OS layer with Windows 8.1 to a Windows 7 and upgrade your system while maintaining your user data layer!

Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management or VMware DPM

VMware Distributed Power Management is one of the real benefits of having a virtual environment for me, since with this, we will be able to reduce electricity consumption in our data center by a lot. VMware DPM Allows Unnecessary ESX Hosts to Be Powered Off, and when virtual machines are loaded and require more physical servers, these start automatically. All of this would be achieved in a DPM-enabled DRS cluster. The power consumption of a server is 15W when it is in Standby mode and depending on the server and its components it can vary approximately between 300W and 500W when it is booted. Starting from this, we can calculate how much we can save if we opt for VMware and set up a VMware DRS cluster + VMware DPM. Example: