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.

Using VMware Update Manager

Good, primer documento en formato WordPress, a ver que tal va 😉 En este documento se muestra cómo utilizar VMware Update Manager para mantener actualizados todas nuestras máquinas virtuales y los hosts con VMware ESX. En un documento anterior se comenta cómo se instala y cómo se habilita el plugin (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1115), en la instalación del VirtualCenter escojeremos si instalamos el componente de VirtualCenter o no. Well, Start,

Installing and Using VMware Virtual Machine Importer 2

VMware VM Importer, allows us to convert virtual machines from: VMware Workstation or VMware Player or VMware Server or VMware GSX Server or Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server or Symantec Ghost or Symantec LiveState images in VMware ESX or VMware Workstation or VMware Player or VMware Server or GSX Server format. To do this,, we will need to download and install the VM Importer 2 from the www.vmware.com website.

Configuring Virtual Networks – Virtual Switches in VMware VirtualCenter

This document explains how to configure the network of an ESX server 3.5, via a virtual switch, which is to create virtual networks, to connect virtual machines to each other, or that they are routed, or for HA use or administration . It is assumed that a host supports at most 4 NICs, In my case it will be a server with two network connections. The ideal is to have everything redundant, in case one interface goes down, the other has the same connections, or else, to split traffic and have VM traffic go through a NIC (x example). We have three types of connections to set up:

Configuring Profiles in VMware VirtualCenter

En este documento veremos cómo podemos configurar VirtualCenter para poder acceder con diferentes cuentas de usuario y cada cuenta de usuario tenga diferentes tipos de permisos. Es ideal para no tener que dar por supuesto la cuenta de Administrador a nadie, por si tenemos algún becario encargado de encender máquinas virtuales, que sólo pueda hacer eso, si tenemos un departamento encargado de revisar LOG’s o crear MV’s que sólo puedan hacer eso y nada más.

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.

Setting up an MSA – HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 with ESX

In this document we will explain how we will connect this SAN to ESX servers, the logical thing is that we have an MSA with two controllers (otherwise, It doesn't make much sense to invest so much, if we don't have redundancy in controllers), as well as two fiber switches on the back to have redundancy at the switch level as well. And on each ESX server we will place a couple of fiber optic HBA's, to which we will connect each HBA to a fiber switch to have a high availability system.