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VMadmin.co.uk is a site where you can find an ever increasing repository of information about VMware Virtualization, Windows Server and Linux.

There are how to guides, general help, tips and info provided by a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and general technical enthusiast. VMware has also presented me with the VMware vExpert Award 2009 for my contribution to the VMware community.
 
vCenter 4 - Creating a Datacenter, Creating a Cluster and Adding a Host
VMware vCenter Server

 vCenter 4 - Creating a Datacenter, Creating a Cluster and Adding a Host
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Upgrading to vSphere vCenter Update Manager 4
VMware vCenter Update Manager

Upgrading to vSphere vCenter Update Manager 4

 
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Configuring iSCSI Storage
VMware ESX and ESXi Server

 

For HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion to work you need to use shared storage. In the case an iSCSI SAN.

I will show you how to configure ESX to connect to and use iSCSI SAN storage.

 
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Resizing a Virtual Disk VMDK
VMware ESX and ESXi Server

Virtual Machines tend to have only the storage they need assigned to them, generally because they are based on expensive SAN storage systems.
However requirements change, and that nice small 10gb virtual machine needs more space.
How do you resize the virtual disk (.VMDK)?
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Upgrading to vSphere Converter 4
VMware vCenter Converter

 Upgrading to vSphere Converter 4

 
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Upgrading to vSphere vCenter Server 4
VMware vCenter Server

VMware vSphere 4 has a number of great improvements and additional features.

Upgrading vCenter is the first step in getting your virtual infrastructure ready to be able to take advantage of these.

vCenter must be upgraded first, before adding any ESX/ESXi 4 hosts. ESX 3.5 hosts can be added to vCenter 4. However ESX 4 hosts cannot be added to vCenter 2.5.

 

1. Login to the VMware license portal to check/upgrade/buy your vSphere licenses.
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WSUS Database Maintenance
Windows Server 2008

To ensure the WSUS server runs correctly and efficiently, the WSUS database should be re-indexed freqently. It is recommended to do this at least once a month.
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Virtual Machine Automatic Startup and Shutdown
VMware ESX and ESXi Server

 

It is possible to set virtual machines to automatically startup and shutdown with the ESX server.

You may want to do this for example in a test environment where vCenter is in a VM.

Rather than connecting to the ESX server and starting the vCenter VM then connecting to vCenter, you could connect straight to vCenter.

 
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