I’d tried VMware server 2 back in beta but found I couldn’t get on with the new management web interface so stuck with my trusted VMware server 1.0.x A colleague mentioned recently VMware Server 2 could be managed using the familair VI client usually used to manage ESX hosts. Sure enough after downloading and installing [...]
During install of vmware tools on newly p2v’d server error 1606 was displayed and vmware tools would not install. Error ocured as location of administrators My Documents had been redirected to a network location which could not be accessed as no network driver installed. If you are unable to change the path of the My [...]
You can use the free VMware converter tool to import Microsoft virtual machines into VMware. Most of the Microsoft product line can be downloaded for evaluation in a pre configured virtual machine format. Microsoft virtual machines come with a virtual disk with a file extension of VHD and configuration file with the extension VMC, VMware [...]
Did some testing today with a Windows 2003 server running VMware Server and a Linux (Ubuntu) guest. The Linux guest already had tape backup software installed (BackupEdge) and needed to be able to access the tape drive (400GB LTO) on the Windows host. I knew this should work in theory but had never tried to do [...]
Spent sometime today clarifying Microsoft’s stance on licensing Windows Servers as virtual machines, this applies regardless of which virtulisatuion platform the VM’s are running on e.g. VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Hyper-V. With standard Windows server licences you have to buy a licence for each VM running Windows Server as the guest OS. With an enterprise [...]
