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booting Windows 7 from a VHD file

Update : The post is updated accordingly with the Server 2008 R2 build 7000 commands, and information on how to create/add/attach VHDs using Disk Management. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 supports booting directly from a VHD file, the same kind of files...

Published 1 jan 2009 21:43 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: Windows 7, 2008 R2, VHD, Boot
How-to: Configure DELL servers for use with vSphere DPM

One of the neat little feature upgrades in ESX 4 compared to 3.x is that Distributed Power Management (DPM) is now officially supported. In 3.5 it was experimental and the only way to power on your hosts was using WOL. In ESX 4 features like IPMI and...

Published 5 sep 2009 23:47 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: drac, dell, vsphere, ipmi, power management, dpm
now this is green IT!

A friend of mine set out to build a box for running his test environment. The goal was to build a small and quiet box, that didnt use much power either. He found a complete system, which is based on mini-ITX standards, with the brand new Intel Atom 330...

Published 22 okt 2008 22:15 by Rasmus Sjørslev
FREESCO routing in a virtual environment

If you have the need for routing between different networks in VMware ESX (Hyper-V should be the same use-case though I have not tested), you need some sort of routing application. FREESCO could be that application, and since it’s very small, fast...

Published 25 jan 2009 17:53 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: FREESCO, VMware, Routing
virtual floppy disks and drives

Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) is very neat program that creates virtual floppy drives, which works just as if they where physical. You can save these virtual floppies in .flp format and use directly in VMware and MS hypervisors, or other programs which support...

Published 19 jan 2009 22:46 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: VMware, Virtual Floppy
performance data collection made easy: logman and powershell

If you need to gather performance data from multiple systems, it can be hard manual labor (and just plain boring) setting up all those collector sets manually. This PowerShell scripts servers as a wrapper for logman.exe which can create data collector...

Published 19 okt 2009 21:06 by Rasmus Sjørslev
PowerShell: write to word using bookmarks

I needed to create some 5-600 change-request documents for server migration, where some of the information was hostname, IP address and OS version. Server hostname information was already available in txt/xls/csv format, so not wanting to create all thes...

Published 11 dec 2008 12:00 by Rasmus Sjørslev
set hardware acceleration using scripts

If you have tried installing VMware Tools, you know that at the end it prompts you for changing hardware acceleration levels (which you always want to change anyways...). This is tedious process doing manually but can be automated. Attached is a VBscript...

Published 8 jan 2009 16:38 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: Scripts
extending boot volumes on virtual machines

It's very easy to extend volumes on VMs running on ESX server. with 3.5 U2 this task can be done while the machine is powered on. The tricky part comes when you want to extend the boot volume, in regards to Windows Guest OS. There's no problem...

Published 28 okt 2008 17:14 by Rasmus Sjørslev
Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers

Inspired by dkfbp in the VMware Community forums, i made this simple script that checks the date/time and ntpd service status of your ESX servers. Its a Powershell/vSphere PowerCLI script that basically serves as a wrapper for plink.exe which then executes...

Published 30 sep 2009 21:10 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: VMware, Scripts, vsphere, powershell
Using WOL from the internet

Being able to use Wake On Lan (WOL) thrue a router from the internet, seemed like the perfect match for my new Windows Home Server. Not wanting the server to be on at all times this feature would make me able to power the server up, get the files i need...

Published 17 sep 2009 19:05 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: power management, WOL, asus
Bacis configuration changes in Linux - ESX/Appliances

I always get lost when it comes to configuring things like DNS, default gateway, IP settings and so on in Linux - more precise ESX and appliances. Being tired of always have to google the answers, this post should cover how to do basic IP configuration...

Published 2 sep 2009 15:33 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: search, linux, esx, commands, network
reset ESX root password using VI toolkit

The first credential box is for VirtualCenter login, then the script asks for the current root password (through a read-host) Second credential box is for the new root password (to secure the input) Connect-VIServer -Server <server_name> $rootpswd...

Published 17 nov 2008 15:30 by Rasmus Sjørslev
equipping your VMware VI toolbox!

This post aims to bring you up to speed on whats out there, in regards to ease administration of the VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Since i'm lazy and dont like doing the same thing twize, a lot of these "tools" are based on scripting since...

Published 28 okt 2008 0:20 by Rasmus Sjørslev
remember to align your partitions

Nothing new, but still important. Always remember to align your partitions no matter if the server is virtual or physical. (check with storage provider first, but in 99% of cases its a good idea) Here is a really good guide from VMware which explains...

Published 29 okt 2008 13:55 by Rasmus Sjørslev

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