Tag: VMware

Installing VMware Workstation ACE, creating VMs for use with the VMware ACE environment and viewing the policies

Well, once we have the VMware ACE server installed, We can take advantage of it, even if it is not entirely mandatory to have an ACE server, since we can have our virtual machines (Packages/Instances) generated but without a server control. In this document, We show how simple it is, VMware Workstation ACE Edition installation to create these virtual machines, we generate a VM and then we see the directives other possibilities we have about them. Once everything is ok, we could generate the virtual machine packages to install or distribute them, but that is in the following document:HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.

Installing and Configuring the VMware ACE Management Server

In this document, we will look at installing the VMware ACE Management Server product. VMware ACE will allow us to have, Distribute virtual machines to our employees in a secure way, since through certain directives or policies we can customize certain properties of the machine. An example to understand it, it is enough to create a VC and if we want a salesperson to take it with the product that we are going to sell inside and we do not want it to be hacked’ We can encrypt your content, capping so that you can't use external drives such as CDs, Hard Drives, net… We can make the virtual machine expire… and all of this can be managed from the VMware ACE Management Server, all this through Virtual Rights Management. Policies can be created from VMware Workstation ACE Edition, as well as virtual machines, This is explained in the following documents: HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1855 and http://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.

Emulating a WAN with WANem

WANem will serve us to emulate wide area networks or WAN's 😉 full name is Wide Area Network emulator, is a free product of Sourceforge, we can download it in ISO to install on a computer or in virtual appliance format to mount it on a VMware machine. Thanks to this application we will be able to emulate a WAN to test a product/technology in our laboratories, The good thing is that it can be parameterized quite thoroughly.

Connecting USB Devices in VMware ESX Environments

I have wanted to publish this document for a long time, where with a simple software called USB over Network (HTTP://www.usb-over-network.com/usb-over-network.html) We can share USB devices over the Ethernet network, This is, We can have on the physical server (in the VirtualCenter or VCB x example) a server with multiple USB adapters or extending it with PCI devices… plug the USB devices needed by the virtual machines into this hardware and share it over the network; in the VMs a client software is installed that will make them connect to this USB server. Apart from this software there are also other solutions, but personally they are not as fast as they are. If we are looking for a hardware solution I would review AnywhereUSB (HTTP://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp).

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.

Using RVTools to facilitate our virtual administration

Vtools is ideal for managing our VMware Infrastructure-based virtual environment, or what is the same, for VMware VirtualCenter or VMware ESX server, only supports version 2.x of VirtualCenter and 3.x of lost host ESX. With this free tool, we can manage generic information about virtual machines, your virtual CPU's, your virtual RAM, Your Virtual Hard Drives, Your Virtual Networks, your virtual CD drives, Virtual floppy drives, Snapshots and the most important thing for me, The status of VMware Tools!!! So we can both disconnect CD drives or floppy drives and update the VMware Tools together!!

Installing and Configuring VMware Virtual Consolidated Backup – VMware VCB

VCB or Virtual Consolidated Backup is the ideal way to back up VMware's virtual environment. In this document, we'll show you how to configure VCBs to back up the virtual machines you're interested in, are complete copies of the VC or copies of their contents. We will also integrate VCB with Symantec Backup Exec. VMware Consolidated Backup is an easy-to-use, centralized backup program that incorporates the best features of both options. Provides file-by-file backup without the need for a backup agent, and supports incremental and full file protection.