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VMWare vSphere Client does not like 90 degree portrait mode

I discovered today that VMWare vSphere Client Version 4.0.0 Build 162856 running on Windows 2003 32bit does not like the screen to be in portrait mode.  I witnessed some very strange behavior where regardless of what IP I plugged in … Continue reading

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Virtual Dedupe Requires Workaround: OpenSolaris build 128a Kernel Panics on Boot in VMWare

I am super excited you can now download a compiled version of OpenSolaris that includes the new ZFS Dedupe support!  However when I went to try installing build 128a from GENUNIX, I found it kernel panic’d on both VMWare Workstation … Continue reading

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New Super Quiet Supermicro X8SIL VMWare ESXi Server

Update: VMWare ESXi 4.1 detects the SATA controller just find.  The separate SAS card is no longer necessary. The novelty of having a 1U server in my small apartment has worn off. Even on the workstation setting, the tiny fans … Continue reading

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Quad core AMD 8354 Barcelona 10h B2 and ESXi does not work thanks to a bug in the processor

I discovered VMWare has a white paper on running nested vms. This is really cool and something I want to try.  If you read the document you’ll notice you are limited on what CPU you can use to accomplish this. … Continue reading

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VMWare Lab Manager trial and ESXi 4.0 free

Update: The problem I describe below is because I’ve had my ESXi installed longer than 60 days it is licensed as an ESXi Single Server (free).   If you install ESXi initially you can run it for 60 days in Evaluation … Continue reading

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VMWare ESXi: GA-P965-S3 and Supermicro AS-1021M-T2+B

I have now built a couple ESXi machines at home and it can be tough finding hardware that you know is going to work with ESXi.  I thought I would contribute a couple working configurations. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 rev 1.0 … Continue reading

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Expand your virtual machine’s boot drive

A cool use of  (the free program) VMWare converter* is to increase the drive size of the windows boot drive (C:).  Increasing the size of a separate disk in vmware isn’t too hard. One simple way is to attach a … Continue reading

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