In the past couple of years, the term "cloud services" has become very fashionable. Every company wants to be on it. So, even if your day-to-day job is not virtualization, it still makes sense to know about it. Now, even though a cloud service is just a platform outside your own private environment, to someone [...]
In the first and second posts of this series, I covered my thought process for deciding what hardware and software to use for my new lab machine and then what I actually bought and built, respectively. In this last post of the series, I intend to cover some optimizations I did after the build, some [...]
In the first part of this post, I detailed the notes that I took while upgrading my VMware View 5.0.1 environment to 5.1. I also mentioned some of the preparations that one should make before carrying out the upgrade. In this post, I'll write about the rest of the upgrade process that I followed and also mention [...]
When upgrading a vCenter server from version 4.x to 5.0, you may encounter an error: "The Windows installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running windows in safe mode, or if windows installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance." You may genuinely have a broken Windows [...]
As I've been asked about this several times, I thought I should post something about it as this doesn't seem to be common knowledge: VMware Tools can be installed on Windows 2008 (R2) Server Core. A common misconception is that since Server Core doesn't have a GUI (Graphical User Interface), it can't run the VMware [...]
I started working with Virtualization when VMware made it available to the x86 environment, little more than a decade ago. People didn't really know about it and things that we take for granted these days, were quite difficult to do. For that reason, take up was a bit slow but in recent years with technologies maturing, it has [...]