I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list. I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]
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After cleaning up your Virtual Center Database to get us back and running I came across the following vCenter Server 4.x has a Database Retention Policy setting that allows you to specify when vCenter Server tasks and events should be deleted. Since this setting does not affect performance data records it is still possible to purge […]
Additional Errors: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 4096 MB per database. Cause: The 4 GB limit is a limit of SQL Server Express 2005. If you needed to grow your database beyond that size, you would want to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Workgroup […]
Written in Java and is designed to be OS independent. raw2vmdk creates an appropriately structured VMDK file that refers to the raw image, which can then be mounted by VMware. It is extremely simple to use and provides the required results in seconds. This is a new tool, so if you have any feedback please do […]
For several weeks now I have been running PS3 Media Server (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/) hosted on Ubuntu 10 Desktop (http://www.ubuntu.com/), when I decided to fine tune my environment by making the system headless as I had no need to interact with a desktop environment. Info: PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPNP Media Server which can […]
Again I am working on my server; a virtual machine powered by VMware. I recalled that I did not have the tools installed; also the virtual server console gave me an additional reminder. So I decided to install. There are a few things to do before installing. First we need to make sure our server […]