VNC Built-in Backdoor - Part 2
In continuation of my previous post about this issue with VNC and direct access to a vm through the service console. In my original findings, I stated that this was possible with both ESX3i and ESX …
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Every now and again, this comes up. It did again 2 Days ago on Dave Lawrence’s Blog I still feel that in spite of all the benefits and extra redundancy you get with vCenter as a VM, it still …
The Future of Cluster Services
For those of you don’t already know, VMware have a new feature coming out in there next version. I am lucky enough to be part of the Beta group who is busy testing this. The feature is called …
Now how do you like this - Built-in Backdoor
Firstly let’s start with how this came about. I was trying to allow permissions to a user to a certain VM on an ESX3i Server. This is a the free edition. There is no option to allocate …
So how do you like your feeds?
There are those who like to get updates immediately when something changes in a feed, there are those who like to get notified once a day (something like a daily digest idea from Yahoogroups) Well I …
So when will we see the get the next version of ESX?
Rumors rumors……. This came up on SearchVMware (Hannah Drake - Associate Editor of SearchVMware.com) **The release of VMware Infrastructure 4 is slated for first half of this year. What …
So where is virtualization heading?
Chad Sakac works for EMC, and has blog of course. He wrote a wonderful post last week about getting the most you can out of IP storage for ESX. The post itself was great because it was a joint project …
Once upon a time....
A bit of nostalgia.. Look how far the world has come since then…
Converting a Linux Virtual Machine With an LVM
I was entrusted with the task to try and migrate a VM from Xen 3.2 to ESX. Well you would think that is a trivial task - it should be. But let us not forget that we are talking here about version 3.2, …
Exporting Virtual Machines to Another Computer
A potential client (hopefully will be a major client in the future) came to me with a requirement to consider ESX3i as their next platform for a stand-alone lab (x30). The major setback at the moment …