This is a tool that I created a while back to assist in sizing needed disk space in a deployment. Straight forward to use, the totals are calculated as follows: VMDK Size + Ram Size * 1.1 + 12Gb = Total Needed. While the VMDK may be obvious, the others are just as important. Ram
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Systems Compatibility Guide Storage Guide for 3.5 Storage Guide for 3.0
While there may be a Santa Claus Virginia, and he brought you ESXi for free, he didn’t bring you Serial Port Access. This isn’t because after several hundreds of years of delivering toys to little girls and boy’s has got him scrooged out, it’s because ESXi has a footprint that is all of 32mb in
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Found this over on Run-Virtual.com Interested in knowing if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMware CPU Host Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts this in one single overview. The program will tell you if your servers are VT capable and
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Had a situation in which time in a Linux guest kept creeping about, slower, faster, etc. To the point where NTP wasn’t helping before. This in turn, like all good questions, turned me to that which is the holy oracle of all knowledge: Google. Google, showed me that I am not alone in my struggles,
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From the Guest Install Guide blog @ VMware. These are the changes or updates made to the Guest Operating System Installation Guide since it was last published: Added support for 32-bit NetWare 6.5 Server, Support Pack 8 on ESX Server 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 Update 3. See “NetWare 6.5 Server” on page 302. Added support
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