During a client migration due to very old machines being replaced we encountered an issue where the client had a 16 bit foxpro dos application which needed to be maintained even though the client was migrating to Windows 7. The actual problem was that the new machines were to be Windows 7 64 bit. Where […]
Trilead have announced the release of VM Explorer 3.6.009 – great to see another update supporting new esxi builds About VM Explorer 3.6.009: The main new features ofVM Explorer 3.6.009 are: New: support for ESX & ESXi 4.1.0.433742 New: notification message for VM Explorer updates Fixed create folder on iSCSI drive Fixed “Error 1053: The service did […]
Have been digging around a bit deeper to see what the changes are in the new VMware Vsphere 5 release. I suspect there will be a few more articles around this but initially … my comments in brackets Vmware say vSphere 5.0 continues to build on the rich set of capabilities provided in vSphere 4.1. […]
Great to see a new release of one of my favourite tools for VM backups in the ESX(i) environment. Trilead explorer 3.6 has a few items that I had thought would improve the product. New: option to backup multiple VMs in the same task New: warning message on VM Explorer startup if last scheduled tasks […]
Answer : Because for ages you don’t see any new ones then three come along at the same time ! I just read an announcement from Microsoft that I missed last month regarding the release of a software package which effectively allows a 2008 r2 server to become a SAN for the purposes of virtualisation. […]
If you are responsible for a small virtual environment running VMware you will have no doubt looked at the various backup options – paid and unpaid. Each has their own merits and some fit better for the small vmware infrastructures with only a few esx or esxi servers. I usually try to advise clients to […]
As mentioned before – issues can arise with a black screen appearing on a Windows 7 VM (64bit in this case) after installation of the VMware tools. One solution is to rollback to previous state – the other is to remove and reinstall the tools if you can. However there may be another issue. In […]
Essentially the issue is a black screen (sometimes with coloured lines/dots) when booting Windows 7. This happens before the login screen and hangs there. This occurs after installing Windows 7 as a virtual machine on VMware ESX/ESXi and then installing VMware Tools. Once the Windows 7 VM is rebooted the black screen is then all […]
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