How do you create virtual machines inside Hyper-V? What options do you choose? What do you need to know to get a new Windows 2008 Hyper-V virtual machine up and running? This demo video from Train Signal’s Hyper-V video training course answers all of these questions and more…
Want to enable SSH login for root (yes, it is disabled by default). To do this, follow VMware’s video, below…
Eric Gray (@eric_gray on Twitter) over at vCritical.com recently published his top posts of 2009 and I found them very interesting. His #1 post was VMware ESX can even virtualize itself. This is actually a post that I have followed step by step to run ESX inside ESX.
After #1, his other top posts were..
Eric has a good blog, I hope you will check it out.
One of the sharpest guys in the world of virtualization is Doug Halezman (who happens to work for Veeam). He’s known as @VMDoug on Twitter and I just finished watching this video where he covers what Veeam Business View is and how it fits into the new Veeam Monitor 4.5.
Watch this video to learn why Veeam Monitor was a finalist at VMworld 2009…
What are VHDs? Why do you need them? How do you add and remove VHD’s dynamically? This demo video from Train Signal’s Hyper-V video training course answers all of these questions and more…
At one point or another you will want to change the name of one of your VMware ESX Servers. I can tell you that there is no easy GUI to do this. However, the steps that you take from the CLI are:
1. If the ESX host is part of a Cluster, remove it from the cluster.
2. If the ESX host is managed by VirtualCenter / vCenter, disconnect and remove the ESX host from the cluster.
3. Make the modifications in your DNS environment to reflect the correct name and IP association for the new name.
4. Log in as root to the console of ESX host.
5. Using a text editor, change the name of the host in the following files:
* /etc/hosts
* /etc/sysconfig/network
6. Execute this command where is the new hostname for the ESX host:
esxcfg-advcfg -s /Misc/HostName
7. Reboot the ESX host.
8. Join the ESX host to VirtualCenter / vCenter and clusters.
(These steps are thanks to VMware KB article #1010821)
VMware recently published a new knowledgebase article, KB 1008083. The cool thing about this post is that they offer up a nice YouTube video to go along with it. This video walks you through setting up iSCSI, step by step. Check it out by clicking on the video below…
I have been a follower of Scott Lowe’s blog for a long time. He is a real virtualization guru and recently demonstrated that even more with his book Mastering VMware vSphere 4.
One of the more recent posts that Scott made was called “Virtualization Short Takes” where he used the “shotgun approach” and offered up a long list of “what’s going on” in the virtualization industry. I learned quite a few from this post and I think that you will to. Read the full post at- Virtualization Short Take #32
Christian Mohn (@h0bbel on Twitter) posted a very helpful new article on the Petri IT Knowledgebase entitled Expanding the Boot Volume of a Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine. In this article, he walks you though, step by step, expanding the boot volume of a running Windows 2008 Server virtual machine inside VMware vSphere.
Check it out at the link above as I think you will find it very useful, just as I did.
Checkout my new video from Train Signal where I cover how to use VMware GO to install VMware ESXi, perform P2V conversions, and manage your ESXi virtual infrastructure.
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