VLANs are a great tool to manage business networks and VMware knows that very well. We’ll show you how you can configure ESX(i) to tag packets and how to create virtual switches for your VLANs.
Before reading the guide, it’s important to have VLANs configured in your network. More information on how to segment a LAN into VLANs here.
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This is a very basic tutorial to create a simple virtual machine running on a VMware ESX(i)/vSphere host.
As prerequisites, you need an ESX(i) server and an installed vSphere Client. They must be of the same version (for example, vSphere Client 5.5 won’t work with ESXi 6).
In this post we’ll see how to create a virtual machine for a Windows Server 2012 operating system.
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OpenStack is a free and open source cloud computing platform. It’s mainly used to build IAAS (infrastructure as a service) solution.
VMware vSphere platform can be used with the OpenStack framework and this video shows how you can integrate it using the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA).
To be said, the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance has been created for educational purposes as a proof of concept. It’s not an official product and it doesn’t come with any support. VMware also discourage its use.
Windows 8.1 isn’t the usual home of a Hyper-V server but you may be interested in using it for developing purposes, education or other.
Microsoft gives us the possibility to install Hyper-V even on desktop Windows operating systems, with some limitation.
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VMware published an interesting video about SSD / Virtual Flash capabilities of ESXi 5.5 (vSphere).
With Virtual Flash it’s possibile to accelerate read I/O operations caching data on flash storage.
The video provides information about the Virtual Flash technology capabilities and how it works. Furthermore, you can find many links to official sources to configure Virtual Flash on your own.
Thanks to the powerful VMware vCenter Converter, it’s pretty easy to convert a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine into an ESXi (vSphere) one.
With Windows Server 2012 and higher, the operation is quite similar to the P2V conversion we explained a few days ago. With Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2008 R2 you can only migrate powered-off Windows VMs.
Let’s see how to perform the conversion.
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It’s not a secret that Microsoft is investing money and resources on Hyper-V to close the gap with VMware ESXi (vSphere platform).
Today Hyper-V is a stable and solid virtualization product even if lacks many features ESXi has. Performing a virtual machine conversion from vSphere to Hyper-V is really easy thanks to the efforts of a company called 5nine.
5nine V2V Easy Converter is a powerful software capable to convert your virtual machines after a quick configuration. Let’s see how to use it.
The first step is to download the free version Easy Converter from this page (a registration is required) and install it.
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