ESX

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123 is the time for me

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged ESX NTP on September 2, 2011 by HAL

ESX clock time and keeping vms in sync as regards their time can be problemmatic. The diversity of ways of maintaining time and the differences betwen OS and even individual virtual machines can make it awkward to figure out where the time drift issue may lie.  Some things to look out for are dead ntp […]

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Winscp – an essential tool for working with ESX / ESXI

This entry was posted in Interesting Must Have Review Software and tagged ESX File Transfer VMWare on September 21, 2009 by HAL

Whenever people ask me about tools to enhance work with Vmware ESX – the one that immediately springs to mind for transferring files and data to and from an ESX server is WINSCP. In fact given the frequency that it gets used its a wonder that something as functional wasn’t built into the VI Client. […]

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Backup virtual esx machines to usb drive

This entry was posted in Tips Virtualisation and tagged ESX VMWare on February 24, 2009 by HAL

I noted this while researching a backup question for VMware – useful to know that the esx can talk directly to the usb device !! so heres the info Storage USB devices can be used to back up virtual machines. By default, USB devices are supported on ESX 3.x. The USB drivers are pre-loaded in […]

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Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution

This entry was posted in Software Tips Virtualisation and tagged ESX VMWare on January 20, 2009 by HAL

I received this when starting a VM (in ovf) format downloaded from the VMware appliance marketplace. What I thought was odd was that this was on an already running ESX server. Researching the background it appeared that by default Dell ship their 2900 Poweredge servers with virtualisation capabilities turned off (which suggests that none of […]

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