VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) migrates workloads or VMs between VSphere, non VSphere or on-premise environments.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Associate Exam
Passing the AWS Cloud Practitioner Associate Exam. This was my first technical paper in quite a while.
Cloud services
What is this new fangled cloud services? Nothing new I will tell you, its been around since the start of computer networks, just in various incarnations. Remember dial-up bulletin board service or BBS? You dial up to a particular BBS…
VMware Server discontinued
This is old news to some. This is regarding about one of my favourite software, VMware server. I came across several posts in the past week about its passing. Finally found the official confirmation. This really sad, as I have…
Guests cannot connect to VMware server host.
This sounds a bit weird. If you have VMware server running on Windows 2003 SP2, you might encounter connection problems from the guest. I have tested using Window shares or UNC paths.
VMware Converter 3.0
A customer has a bunch of really old Compaq servers running, you guess it a mission-critical application that nobody knows how to reinstall. So I convinced them to virtualize the machines as a business continuity plan. That way hardware failure…
Tools for converting machines to VMware
What happens when your VMs refuse to start.
On powering up the virtual servers, they keep hanging. Strangely they use to be working just a few minutes ago? Check the properties of each of the virtual servers. Uncheck all devices that are connected at power-up. If all else…
ESXi 3.5 update 2 test drive
I was looking through the VMware website and stumbled on the free version of ESX (since 28 Jul 08). So I thought I do a test drive together with some of the very old VM Server images.
Exchange 2007 on a VM
I need some face time with Exchange 2007. My previous two attempts to run it off the company’s data centre servers almost always got hijacked.