Being a 1st time Mac user I am truly impress with the performance & capability. I was a true PC users with windows & started to use Linux quite a bit for passed 2-3 years.
Recently with anonymous tips from someone I was able to get ESX running inside VMware Fusion Version 2.0.1 (128865).
Just create a VM as per normal wizard & select “Generic Linux” or “RedHat Linux” works well for me.
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As many of the users who used the previous version of the VMware Server, there were no shortcuts on your desktop which provide direct access to the VM console without logging into the web console.On VMware Server 2.0, you will have the flexibility of doing this which is placing a shortcut on your desktop and allow you to log in to the VM console directly.
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For a while ago, I had spoken to my team and friends about the amazing concept if we do able to use the HPC concept to scale our Server hardware in term of processors, memory and I/O without increasing the amount of ESX server in the Virtual Environment. I remember the question had been raised to the VMware representative and this is not in the road map for the ESX servers. 2 days back when I attended the seminar in town and I found this interesting server which is IBM X3950 M2 had been presented with the capabilities I had been looked around. Some of my friend may think the idea of doing this is crazy or over limit, but in real scenario, you will realize the benefits in term of managing and scaling from time to time when you managing a real huge environment with a massive amount of Virtual Machines.
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According to VMware Seminar today, the future of the VMware Enterprise Edition Virtualization which name as ESX 4 will be launched next year, will contain some of the features which been show case during the seminar to the public. Below is some of the information which had been shared by VMware for reference
1. 64 bits kernel VS the current 32 bits kernel on ESX server
2. Thin Provisioning
3. Fault Tolerance
4. 8 way virtual SMP
5. 256 GB memory per single VM
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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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