PHD Virtual Backup is a backup and recovery solution for VMware and Citrix environments. PHD Virtual Backup version 6 is released. We tested this new version with VMware vSpher What’s new in PHD Virtual Backup version 6: PHD Virtual Backup version 6.0 contains the following major enhancements: PHD …
Continue ReadingLast week Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter RC is released. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter is a stand-alone tool that makes it possible to convert and deploys VMware based VMs to Hyper-V based VMs. It’s coverts the VMware VM and virtual disks (VMDK) to Hyper-V VMs and Virtual Hard Disks …
Continue ReadingAt a customer I was unable to join a domain when deploying a template from vCenter using a guest customization specification. This only happened with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 templates. To solve this problem, you need the do the following in the guest customization specification: Enter the FQDN …
Continue ReadingWhen trying to delete an “old” VMDK file, I’ve got the following message “device or resource is busy”. I was pretty sure that the VMDK was not connected to any VM(s) anymore. I tried to delete the VMDK by command line and by using the datastore browser. I found the VMware KB article “Virtual machine …
Continue ReadingLast weeks a lots of software updates and new releases are published. Here’s an overview of some of them: VMware VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 A new update for vSphere 4.1 is released. Here are the ESX(i) and vCenter improvements: VMware ESX(i) 4.1 Update 1 improvements Enablement of Trusted Execution …
Continue ReadingMemory Limits When adding existing VMware ESX servers (for example 3.5) to the VMware vCenter 4.1 server, all the VMs got a memory limit. To reset the memory limits to unlimited for all VMs, use the following PowerCLI script: Connect-VIServer <servername> Get-VM | Get-VMResourceConfiguration | …
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