Tag: VMware

Virtualize an HP Lefthand Array

This is a simple thing, but I document it because not whoever manages storage systems has to know how VMware works, so it feels 😉 like having a storage cabin, a virtualized SAN can serve two purposes, one testing laboratory or a second case, for production. I am not very supportive of this last option, It's a personal thing, HP advises it, for certain small environment scenarios it could be right, couldn't?. But, well, it is always interesting to be able to operate a cabin freely or more visually in a virtual environment such as VMware's. HP Lefthand physical arrays follow the nomenclature of 'HP LeftHand P4000 SAN’ have several models, The P4300, P4500… but in virtual environment the nomenclature changes to HP Lefthand VSA or HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance.

Deploying ESX servers in bulk

If we are facing an installation of many ESX servers and we have to make a new installation on the servers we have, We can or do it by hand one by one, inserting the CD and completing the wizard or, use a virtual appliance that will allow us to deploy new ESX servers per network, all of them already configured with the options that interest us. This will save us a lot of time, is a virtual appliance called EDA or ESX deployment Appliance available on the VMware Virtual Appliance Web.

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.

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?

Using VMware View Composer

GOOD, this may be VMware View's most attractive product, the VMware View Composer, with this product, what we will achieve is to distribute Desktops to users from the same image for everyone. Without having to go around cloning a source VM, or have one full virtual machine per user, This is, the desktops we generate from this will not have a virtual hard drive, If not a link’ to a replica of the original virtual hard drive. With this we will achieve impressive storage savings, For example, if we design that our Desktops we want them to have 20Gb of disk, You don't need to allocate that amount to each VM, if, for example, we are going to distribute 50 Desks: 50MV x 20Gb = 1TB of space for VDI or VMware View environment only, as this does not make much sense, VMware View Composer is used to deploy Desktops from […]

Installing and Configuring VMware View

VMware View is the new name of the VDI product (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), This product gives us another insight into the philosophy of virtualization, One more step, Virtualize user workstations, thus obtaining all possible advantages, from the centralization of our systems, with this we will have absolute control over what we administer. Another important advantage that comes to mind, is not having to renew users' equipment, being able to migrate to a Thin Client infrastructure or light equipment.

Installing and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager – VMware SRM

Well, Well, Well, I finally had the chance to try VMware Site Recovery Manager or VMware SRM, It is a software that will allow us to automate disaster recovery in our virtual environment. It is designed to 'move’ Our Virtual Environment, if we have a virtualized datacenter/data center and we want to be protected against any catastrophe, we will have another datacenter/data center replicated in another building, logically connected with fiber. VMware SRM relies on the replications that the manufacturers of storage arrays give us the possibility of giving a little red Pentagon-type button, and transfer all the execution that is carried out in one DPC to the other, Lifting the VMs on the target data center, with the same configurations and data that we had in the original data center. With this, We'll set up our(s) plan(is) Recovery, and we will have the possibility to test that the configuration is correct and would rise well in the […]

Creating and Distributing VMware ACE Packages

Ok, once we are clear about how VMware ACE works, we have a VMware ACE server mounted and we have an instance of a virtual machine created, ready for distribution, and we have configured your policies, In this document, shows how to create packages and how certain policies we've previously configured would affect you. Being able to later distribute these packages to be able to run the virtual machines of it.