I received a email from one of my higher authorities to backup one of the ERP servers data, reformat it and keep it ready for re-installation of application. The server was used for testing purpose, and am well aware of these people’s reaction and baseless pinpoints, oh you didn’t backup this, and that and oh [...]

Objective: proof of concept testbed to check the feasibility of P2V Having used virtualization technology from free to use products (VMware Server, Citrix XenServer), always wanted to check the feasibility of P2V specially domain member windows server. Well, today i achieved that with VMware’s vCenter Converter Standalone and VMware Server (ver 2.0.1, build 156745) running [...]

Courtesy: blogs.zdnet.com Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware as been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I’ve just gotten an impressive [...]

Increase your Virtual machine’s disk capacity From windows: Power off the virtual machine go to cmd, cd to path where the virtual machine resides type following command D:\Virtual Machines\xp>”c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe” -x 6gb “d:\Virtual Machines\xp\Windows XP Professional.vmdk” note: in above example the virtual machine path and disk filename varies according to your own settings This [...]