Archive for November, 2008

DELL Equallogic PS5500E Auto Snapshot Manager

Posted on November 13th, 2008 in Hardware, Industry News, Virtualization | 2 Comments »

The latest version of ISCSI SAN Equallogic PS 5500E which launched recently had provide better capacity, performance, extra functionalities and more spindles in arrays. It could be support both 500GB and 1TB SATA II spindles up to 48 drives in a single array of 4U. A very impress usable storage space in single array which up to 48TB in raw. If we compare to the capacity, it is hardly found that a single array would provide a huge capacity at 48TB in Raw today. In additional to that, DELL had provide all the necessary features as for storage management as free which integrated as part of the storage purchase for Dell Equallogic ISCSI SAN. The latest features is regarding the Snapshot Manager for VMware. Previous version is only supported on Microsoft environment, but now, it had also supported on VMWare environment.

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Google Suggest VMware

Posted on November 11th, 2008 in Others | No Comments »

Google Suggest VMware?

Google Suggest VMware

Why VMware Fusion is on top keyword? Does VMware Fusion have more users than VMware ESX? I would assume high traffic for VMware Fusion keyword compare to VMware ESX.

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VMWARE ESX Server Management Script

Posted on November 7th, 2008 in Data Center, Operating Systems, Others, Tips, Virtualization | 2 Comments »

Have you ever experience your Virtual Console down and VMWare Infrastructure Client not working?

Here’s an alternative solution for you: a Bash script to run on your ESX Server.

Sample screen shot:

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VMWARE ESX Management Tool Script
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Author : http://malaysiavm.com/blog
Version : 1.00.20081107.14.31
Supported ESX Version : 2.5 – 3.5
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0. VM Informations
1. Register VM
2. Unregister VM
3. Check VM Status
4. Power ON VM
5. Power OFF VM
6. Suspend VM
E. Exit

Choice:

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VMware ESX 4 beta screenshots

Posted on November 4th, 2008 in Industry News, Operating Systems, Virtualization | 14 Comments »

Please check more details at VMware vSphere 4 launching today!

How to add new volume in VM online (Windows)

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 in Data Center, Operating Systems, Storage, Tips, Virtualization | No Comments »

Your customer want you to add a new volume in one of the VM Windows server but can not affort down time? No worry, you can do that easily with ESX.

Below is step by step guide with screen captured from the VM (my test machine is running on Windows 2003 Enterprise):

Tip: It is best to do a snapshot before you start this task, incase anything goes wrong.

This is my test VM machine. It is having one disk at beginning.

1) This is my test VM machine. It is having one disk at beginning.

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