With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!

So, they’ll tell you that you can’t make a template of a running Virtual Machine. This is how to make a template of a running Virtual Machine!
[root@esx2 volumes]# cp server1test/server1test-flat.vmdk .cp: cannot open `server1test/server1test-flat.vmdk’ for reading: Device or resource busy

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§53 · March 26, 2008 · Tutorials, VMWare · 3 comments · Tags:


Vmware 3.5 has been released with some interesting new features. One of the most “ground breaking” was Storage Vmotion.

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§52 · March 24, 2008 · VMWare · (No comments) ·


The PowerShell development team at VMware demonstrated recently at VMworld 2007 a new set of PowerShell interfaces for VMware Infrastructure (VI).
The idea is not new – leverage the strengths, elegance and simplicity of PowerShell to do more for less that should appeal to all VI infrastructure administrators.
Read more about this exciting initiative and have a [...]

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§48 · March 21, 2008 · VMWare · (No comments) ·


Okay, I admit it; I’m a Dynagen n00b! It’s sort of embarrassing, so to help save anyone the shame, I figure that I will document the process. To that end, I am planning to write a series of articles about my experiences with Dynagen.

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§42 · March 10, 2008 · Dynagen, Tutorials · (No comments) · Tags: