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VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere® 5 VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions – VMs can now be configured with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. When combined with VMware vSphere 5′s enhanced High Availability, these gains in [...]

VMware ESX 4.1 (finally) supports USB device passthrough from an ESX or ESXi host to a virtual machine. Requirements USB device passthrough requires: Virtual hardware version 7 or higher A USB Arbitrator A USB controller A USB device or device hub Limitations The USB Controller has these limitations: USB controller hardware and modules that support USB 2.0 [...]

Only those network adapters that are appropriate for the virtual machine you are creating, are available configuration options in the Choose Networks window. Vlance — An emulated version of the AMD 79C970 PCnet32 LANCE NIC, an older 10 Mbps NIC with drivers available in most 32bit guest operating systems except Windows Vista and later. A virtual [...]

I’ve read about this presentation on Eric Sloofs Blog created by Nicholas Travers who works as a VMware Technology Consultant at EMC. The presentation is called “Storage Protocol Choices & Storage Best Practices for VMware ESX” and deals with storage considerations like: How many VMs per LUN? Standard LUN Size? NFS, RDM or VMFS? iSCSI, [...]

Hi. I’m pretty sure that the Checksum Offload causes a bunch of network slow downs – especially in a virtual environment. Whenever a customer says that it takes a good few seconds to open i.e. a Word document, placed on a share, I always disable Checksum Offload wherever possible on the NIC, inside the VM. [...]

Here is a step-by-step guide to get VMware vSphere Client and the vSphere Host Update Utility to work in Windows 7. My system is running Windows 7 – 64-bit, so please make sure you enter the correct “Program Files” folder if your system is 32-bit. Let’s get started: 1.  Open the following folder:      C:\Program [...]

If you’ve upgraded to or installed ESX(i) 4.0 you’ll see that you have an advanced option to pick which virtual machine hardware version to use for your new VMs. As noted in the image below, the virtual hardware version will determine which other VMware products the VM can be run on. Virtual machine version 7 [...]