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This article explains how to boot a VMware Virtual Machine (VM) or Virtual Applicance using a ISO / bootable media. This works with all versions of VMWare virtualization products including ESX/ESXi, Vmware Workstation and VMware Server (Discontinued).

1. Start up the Vmware vSphere session by providing your hostname or IP address, username and password.

   
    

2. Once you have logged in you will need to navigate and locate the VMware that you wish to boot from an ISO. Make sure that the VM is powered off as you will not be able to make these changes with the VM powered on. Once you have powered the VM right click on the name of the VM and click “Edit Settings”.

   

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Tags: iso, media, vmware, vsphere

If you haven’t already upgraded your ESXi 4 installation to ESXi 5 (Like I haven’t)then SearchVMware has you covered.  They recent posted an article on how to upgrade your existing ESXi 4 Hosts and Vshpere Client to the new and shiny ESXi 5. Good stuff in here that you do not want to miss out on.

Source – SearchVMware.com’s How to upgrade existing VMware ESXi 4 to ESXi 5.

Booting a Linux Vm in VMware is a pretty task and it’s helpful, especially if you forget your password or are having other issues such as security related issues. This also works for any Linux server as long as you have console access (Not Remote) access to it. IE standing in front of it.

This process will explain how to boot your VM into the single-user mode, so listen up.

1. You’ll need to have console access to that VM, otherwise it will boot normally.
   Once the VM is loading and you see the Vmware boot screen. Once this goes away you will see the Linux Grub Boot screen. Press any key to stop the boot process.

   

2. You will now see a screen similar to this. These are the OS / Kernel’s for your VM. Always choose the upper most listing. Highlight this and press the “A” key.

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Tags: boot, Linux, singe-user, single, user, vm

Seeing that the company I work for has viewed the “Cloud” platform a viable and neccessary ground for extending its hosting, I’ve been devoted to looking at our existing and expanding “Cloud” environment as well as comparing it to other hosting solutions from hunderds (ok, not hundred’s, but see get what I mean) of vendors. Doing so I’ve come to realize that the major of key “Cloud” players are using Vmware’s ESX/ESXi, Microsoft’s Hyper-V (Not a huge fan), Xen/Xen Server (only small scale and only offering Linux) and even custom “Cloud” suites such as Amazon’s EC2.

Today I just wanted to through out a comparions of Softlayer’s “Cloud” offerings as it compares to Amazon and Rackspace and the differences in tech and pricing.

http://http.cdnlayer.com/softlayerweb/PS_EC2vsCL.pdf

Pretty interesting regarding the huge difference in price compared to what they offering you in terms of CPU, Storage and Memory.

My company has been / is making the jump from Parallel’s Virutozzo HyperVisor based Virtuozzo to Vmware’s ESX/ESXi Virtualization and I’ve been liking what I’ve been seeing and working with. So much I ended up first installing Vmware’s Server 2 and then replacing it with ESXi (3) at home to play and educate myself. Well, thats the problem. I figured I’d look into getting my certification in VCP 4 (Vsphere) and ESXi… but geez, its so damned expensive. I mean, I understand its in high demand, but $3,000.00….. How in the world am I supposed to be able to afford that vs other certifications, while at the same time trying to keep my head above water. The cost of living is already high enough as it is.

Vmware… if you happen to see this, perhaps you can shed some light as to why your courses / fast tracks are so damned expensive. I’d love to understand why.

Tags: courses, expensive., vmware