How To Turn Off Beep Speaker Sound

Posted on January 6th, 2009 in Tips, Workstations | No Comments »

“Beep… beeep… beeeep…” such an annoying sound that always happen in VMware Workstation(I’m currently running 6.5.1) Linux and Windows guests machine.

I would like to share How to disable or turn off beep speaker sound on VMware Workstation.

  1. Look for virtual machine DOT VMX(.vmx) file.
  2. Edit virtual machine .vmx file.
  3. Insert
  4. “mks.noBeep = “TRUE””

  5. Save .vmx file.
  6. Power On virtual machine.

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Suggestion to VMware

Posted on January 6th, 2009 in Announcement, Industry News, Virtualization | No Comments »

Welcome to the year 2009 and I do hope to see the change of VMware in term of their products strategy & marketing strategy too. Everybody aware that the pricing of the ESX enterprise could be the show stoppers to some of the potential users who want to choose VMware instead of the competitor such as Hyper V and Xen. In the current economy downturn, VMware should try to reduce the licensing costing to increase the market share as well as benefits to their customer. Customer will always sign up for the support agreement on yearly basis and it does be another way for VMware to generate revenue in long term base.

Beside this, training and certify is another big issues in here. Most users will not affordable the training fees which is very expensive today to get certify. The value of the VCP should be the quality of deliver, and should not be restricted to rich guy who able to pay for the course fees. Most expert are capable and experience but had not been attended any training and not certify is due to the expensive training cost.
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FC NFS ISCSI

Posted on January 5th, 2009 in Hardware, Storage, Virtualization | 3 Comments »

There had been numbers of review and discussion always regarding the choice of storage for us to run on Virtual Environment today. I believed that the hot discussion is always moving talk about the right storage with right design and implementation to the VM farm always. The most hottest topic are still regarding the NFS, ISCSI and FC implementation which provide better features, performance and reliability.

Personally, I had 3 of it running in my environment now and of course, I had spent a huge number of times to really test out all the solution and compare apple to apple to further study my requirement. Here is some reading I get from my test for 3 solution above.

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Year 2008 Metrics

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 in Announcement | 2 Comments »

Year 2009 is just around the corner, we would like to wish you and your family “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!”

Malaysia VMware Communities and User Group portal was started at mid of August 2008 and it’s really busy year for us. We have nearly hundred posts and more than 180 comments up to date on our blog, 42 members on Facebook Malaysia VMware Communities and User Group and it’s still growing.

This is the first time we posted year 2008 Malaysia VMware Communities and User Group portal metrics. Basically the statistics details are based on Google Analytics and Awstats.

Monthly History:
Monthly

Countries History:
Country
As you can see, United States and Malaysia are the main source for us.

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Disk Performance on ESX and VM

Posted on December 22nd, 2008 in Data Center, Server, Storage, Tips, Virtualization | No Comments »

Recently I run some stress test on our VMware farm due to the prove of concept we try on some new products and I have some finding would like to share.



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