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Ever wish you could restart a virtual machine or migrate it to another host from the convenience of your mobile phone? With VMware vCenter Mobile Access, you can.

VMware vCenter Mobile Access allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone.

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After a week of studying and reading, I passed by VCP – VCP310 today. Scored 81 !.  I found it helpful to prepare detailed study notes using the VM install and configure guide.

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Now I can finally sleep well.

Barack Obama in favor of Virtualization (spelt Virtualisation) . Vote for change in a datacenter or on a desktop near you.

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By default SSH is not enabled in ESXi. Follow the steps below to enable it

  1. At the ESXi console, press alt+F1
  2. Type: unsupported
  3. Enter the root password
  4. At the prompt type “vi /etc/inetd.conf
  5. Look for the line that starts with “#ssh”
  6. Remove the “#” (press the “x” if the cursor is on the character)
  7. Save “/etc/inetd.conf” by typing “:wq!” or “ZZ
  8. Restart the management service “/sbin/services.sh restart” or reboot the host

This works with ESX3i & ESX4i.

Quick & Easy Way to Install

http://www.vdi.co.nz/?p=33

Express Patch Released by VMware. check here

http://vmware.com/landing_pages/esxexpresspatches.html

General System Error occurred: Internal error when powering up a vm on ESX 3.5 Update 2and ESX 3i 3.5 Update 2.

From the logs( /var/log/vmware/hostd.log) , Message from <host>: This product has expired.

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VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a concept comprised of different solutions or products to acheive a VDI. VDI is a desktop replacement solution that increases security, decreases cost and delivers higher availability for the desktop while continuing to provide end-users with the functionality of a stand-alone desktop.

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Virtualisation is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the OS to deliver greater IT resource utilisation and flexibility.

Virtualisation allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.

Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation.