If you want to work / test / learn many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features, like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you should have SAN (Storage Area Network). For my Home Lab I’m using OpenFiler. You can find a very good Step-By-Step tutorial about OpenFiler at well know Petri.co.il web site. Article by David Davis - “Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server“ I just want to add one small part to this tutorial. I think it’s not the best idea to use IP address from DHCP on Server, a specially on SAN :). So, I’ve configured my SAN to use static IP. Here is how to do that: Full story at source: http://app-v.ca/ |
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As result of battle between Microsoft and VMWare (for place on Virtualization market), VMWare announced that a new VMWARE ESXi server became FREE.
This news generated a lot of interest and many people started to try install VMWARE ESXi on VMWARE Workstation, just to see it and learn. By little Googling you will find a lot of sites, where explained how to run ESX 3.0 server on VMWARE Workstation 6.x, but you will see that this tricks is not working for ESX 3.5. Equally they are working, but you unable to start virtual machine inside ESX. To make ESX 3.5 fully working on VMWare Workstation we need to do the following steps…. Full story at source: http://app-v.ca/ |
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If you try to sequence Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 (I’ve tried to do this in SoftGrid 4.5 RC) you will get a error and inside error report you will find “Code: 0×0000000000000000” and a lot of other, not very usefull information about this error. Full Story At Source, App-V.ca |
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I just finished with a script video_res.bat :). This scripts helps change the screen resolution in Windows Server 2008 Server Core. You can do this manually, but simple use Regedit, but you should know exactly what video driver is working right now in your system, my script does it for you, you just need to select the resolution and that it! Here is a content of video_res.bat: @ECHO OFF
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Rem * Script to change display resolution in Windows 2008 Core *
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FOR /F "TOKENS=2 delims={}" %%a in ('"REG QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video /s /f VolatileSettings"') do set VIDEOCARD=%%a
@echo Please select display resolution:
@echo 1 - 640x480
@echo 2 - 800x600
@echo 3 - 1024x768
@echo 4 - 1280x720
@echo 5 - 1280x800
@echo 6 - 1280x1024
@echo 7 - 1440x900
@echo 8 - 1600x1200
SET /P VRES=To set display resolution to 1024x768 type 1 :
IF /i %VRES%==1 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 640 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 480 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==2 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 800 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 600 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==3 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1024 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 768 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==4 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1280 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 720 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==5 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1280 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 800 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==6 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1280 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1024 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==7 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1440 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 900 /f&goto :EOF
IF /i %VRES%==8 REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1600 /f® ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1200 /f&goto :EOF
Remember to Log Off and Log On again ;). |
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Hi, my name is Misha Hanin. I have served as an IT Network Administrator and IT Consultant for over 15 years. I have a number of certifications including CNE, Citrix CCA, VMWare VCP, MCP+I, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator & MCITP Enterprise Administrator .
