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Since upgrading to esx 4i I’ve been playing with disk thin-provisioning.   I talked a bit about the procedure when I had my mis-adventure with vmware snapshots here .   If you want to read more about thin provisioning in vmware click here.
I’ve since converted serveral more vm guests to thin provisioned disks using the command line and [...]

I’ve run into an error a couple times now after moving vm guest files between different esxi hosts.  These have been disk to disk moves from a version 3.5 esxi to a esx 4i host.  After configuring the vm guest on the new host and upgrading the drivers / hardware I’d notice the machine had a dynamic IP [...]

So I just got schooled in Vmware snapshots.  I got all fired up to change one of my VM’s that runs Centos and houses my Samba shares to use thin provisioning on esxi 4.  So I cloned the .vmdk file, pointed the guest VM to it and fired it up.  Whoops, where’s my data? I had a [...]

I just went to the 2009 Virtualization Forum and I’m pretty stoked about Vmware Esx(i) 4.  I’m just getting started with Vmware at work, but I’ve been running it at home for awhile.  I couldn’t wait to upgrade my home Esxi server to 4.  I’ve got a Dell Powervault 830 with 8GB Ram, 3×80 GB Sata and [...]

I’ve been playing around with using BartPE and ghost to do a P2V migration of some productions servers to VMware.  I got the BartPE disk setup with Ghost and all my HP server drivers so I thought I was ready to go – Nope.  This particular server boots from SAN using a Qlogic 4050c iscsi HBA.  [...]

Most of the documentation you see indicates you cannot boot VMware ESXi from a sata or ide drive.  But you can.  I was installing ESXi v3.5 on a Dell Poweredge 830 with 4 SATA drives and the onboard SATA controller (non-raid).    During the install I got the error “Unable to find a supported device to [...]

I was trying to install VMware esxi 3.5 on a Dell PowerVault 750N (sold as a nas box).  The box doesn’t have a CD drive so I had to get the esxi install on another way.  I found a couple how-to’s about booting from a usb thumb drive that used a different kernel, but by [...]