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13 juin 2013

Windows Server 2012 on vSphere 5.0 – The Case of the Missing D:\ Drive

I sincerely hope this saves somebody else some time because I had a fair amount of head scratching with this today. Installed a Windows Server 2012 VM on vSphere 5.0 U2, pretty standard install with a C:\ drive for OS, Software etc and D:\ for data. This...
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30 janvier 2013

Storage vMotion does not rename files?

A while back I posted that 5.0 U2 re-introduced the renaming behavior for VM file names. I was just informed by our excellent Support Team that unfortunately the release notes missed something crucial and Storage vMotion does not rename files by default....
15 janvier 2013

vSphere 5.1 – VMDK versus RDM

It seems the debate between using a VMDK on VMFS or an RDM still rages when it comes to the question which one is better for performance. The VMware team has published a lot of evidence in the past that the difference is very minor, in fact difficult...
10 décembre 2012

Convertir un disque VHD en VMDK

Convertir un disque VHD en VMDK
Un outil Starwind V2V Image Converter gratuit permet de convertir des disques VHD (format Microsoft) en disque VMDK (format VMware) et vice-versa. L’utilisation est la suivante : 1/ Lancer l’outil : 2/ cliquer sur ‘Next’ : --> La suite est à lire sur...
2 juillet 2012

Exchange sur VMWare : RDM or not RDM ? That is the question...

Voici un article intéressant sur l'utilisation des RDM ou VMDK pour les datas Exchange sur VMware : La question qui revient régulièrement lorsque l’on parle de vitaliser Exchange 2010 et que le choix se porte sur l’hyperviseur de VMware vSphere, c’est...
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9 mars 2011

VMware vSphere 4.1 et VMFS locaux

Bonjour, Une fois n'est pas coutume je prends la plume numérique pour noter des informations importantes (à mes yeux ;) ) lors de l'utilisation de VMFS locaux sur des serveurs ESX(i) 4 et 4.1 En effet lors de l'installation d'un ESX 3.X, l'on pouvait...
24 avril 2009

Thin provisionning, what? Save diskspace with ESX and vSphere, oh yes…

Just to say it, because it is one feature MS Virtual Server and Hyper-V have that was missing ESX in GUI vCenter... the article : I was always very happy with one of the features present in VMware Workstation since few years now. Actually you are able...
24 mars 2009

An 8MB VMFS blocksize doesn’t increase performance?

VMFS Blocksizes have always been a hot topic regarding storage performance. It has been discussed by many including Eric Siebert on ITKE and Gabe also opened a topic on VMTN and he answered his own question at the bottom. Steve Chamber wrote a great article...
23 novembre 2008

Offline VM Patchin Free Tool

http://tendam.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/offline-updating-your-vms-fast-and-free/ A colleague showed me a tool for offline updating windows clients and servers. It’s called the c’t offline update tool. Just start the tool and download the patches for your...
7 août 2008

VMDK to VHD

http://cabaretc.free.fr/c-dric/index.php/2008/07/08/vmdk-to-vhd/ un article chez un collègue de Proservia, avec un outil ancien mais toujours fonctionnel : VMDK to VHD, qui permet de transformer / migrer / traduire un VMDK VMWare vers un VHD Microsoft...
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