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Dell ESXi Management

Unlike the traditional ESX software, the ESXi software does not have a service console. It helps reduce the installation footprint of the software and can allow the hypervisor to be directly installed on the system’s internal flash storage or a USB key. At the moment I am investigating moving to ESXi from ESX, after resolving [...]

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vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here

Its here, I’m an author, watch out JK Rowling ! Its been a while coming but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is now available to buy on Amazon (US), we are working at getting it on the UK site but I’m just pleased to see it out there and available to buy. This book [...]

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ESX 3.5 Update 4 Released

VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 has been released, find the official download link here and the documentation here.  

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Veeam Monitor 3.0 Free Edition

The guys over at Veeam have released an early Christmas present for us all and its a cracker (sorry). Head over to the Veeam site now to get your free copy of Veeam Monitor 3.0. Very useful for monitoring ESX3i The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the [...]

Running ESX and ESXi in VMware Workstation

We have been able to run ESX and ESXi in VMware workstation for a while now, I find it particularly useful for testing and for the odd demonstration. If you are unsure how to do this I came across a nice article today which includes a step by step video on how to configure this [...]

How to enable SSH on ESX 3i

This one has been around for a while but I thought I would document it on my blog as I just used it and there is a growing demand for 3i help due to it now being free ! How to enable SSH on VMware ESX 3i. After reading the VMTN forum use the following [...]