Mar 30
When Enough is Not Enough - That is Virtual Hard Disk Space
In the last Two posts on the subject of resizing VMWare Virtual Hard Disks, we reviewed the following methods for resizing a Virtual Machines Virtual Hard Disk:
- Using VMWare Virtual Machine Converter Utility to Resize a Virtual Hard Disk
- Using VDiskManager to Resize a Virtual Hard Disk on VMWare Virtual Machines.
This article covers yet another method for resizing a VMWare Virtual Machines Virtual Hard Disk
Method 3 – How to Use Ghost or another 3rd party imaging product to shrink a disk
As always Safety First. Make sure you have a backup of your Virtual Machines / Virtual Hard Disks.
Here is a step by step overview of what you need to do to resize a VMware Virtual Machines Virtual Hard Disk:
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Mar 29
When enough is not always enough - That is Virtual Hard Disk Space…
This is a follow up to a previous article that discusses one possible method of resizing your Virtual Machines Virtual Hard Disk
Method 2: How to Use VDiskManager to Resize a Virtual Hard Disk:
- Turn off the virtual machine;
- Commit/remove all the snapshots first!
- Open a Command Prompt and go to:
C:Program FilesVMWareVMWare Server or C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Workstation
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Mar 28
When Enough is not Enough… Virtual Disk Space That Is.
Recently a friend and a colleague asked me if I knew how to resize a virtual machine disk. The answer was no because I allocate almost as much space on a virtual disk as I would on a real machine and had never run into the problem of low disk space.
But that got me thinking about the subject and the very possibility that I may one day need to do the very same thing. So I grabbed my handy dandy notebook where I have a development environment for web, applications and virtualization.
My first reaction was to to look at the virtual server web GUI. Surely they would have built in some tools to perform this action. But after a little looking, determined that its not part of the core virtualization platform. Which in this case is VMWare Server 2.0 on Vista.
So then I went to VMWare Virtual Machine Converter. Having converted many physical machines into virtual machines. I figured there has to be a way to use virtual machine converter to solve this problem.
Bingo.. Bango.. or what ever you want to shout!!!
Virtual Machine Converter has the capabilities to do this without a problem.
Obviously there are many way to do this… No one method is right nor wrong for resizing an existing Virtual Hard Disk. Here is how I resized an existing virtual machine hard disk using Virtual Machine Converter…
PRE-VIRTUAL HARD DISK RESIZING PROCESS PROCEDURE AND ACTIONS:
- Always make sure you have a good backup of your virtual machine
- Stating the obvious. Make sure before you begin the process, that you have a battery backup on both the Virtual Server Appliance and the workstation from which you may perform the operation below
- Patience and Time
OK lets look at the simplest method of resizing your Virtual Hard Disk on your Virtual Machine. Continue reading »
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Mar 23
Friend or Foe. These Days it’s Both.
Once anti virus programs use to protect our computer systems from threats such as:
- Viruses
- Worms
- Trojans
- Backdoors
- Rootkits
- and other such threats
But folks this is the 21st Century and Buck Rogers is not due for another Four Centuries. So we’re going to have to fight the evil on our own.
There lurks a very serious, widespread and rampant threat out on the Internet. For some of you that are reading this blog post, may have already experienced the nature of the threat and its annoying, yet very persistent behavior.
This threat has been around for a while now and keeps evolving with ever increasing strength and resolve to screw your computer and raise your blood pressure, not to mention the emptying of wallets for some.
Who is behind this, Why do they do it. What the hell is this threat that we are talking about? Continue reading »
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Mar 21
10 Reasons Why…
Your Business Needs a Microsoft Exchange Email Server?
- Share Contacts - Share your Contacts with key people within your organization.
- Group & Department Contacts - Share your company’s “Client Contact List” with everyone in the Sales Department.
- Share Calenders:- Share your Calender with with key people within your organization or with your entire company.
- Group & Department Calenders - Create Calenders & share them with everyone in your company or within specific departments.
- Backed up Your Emails, Your Contacts, Your Calendars, & Your Tasks - All of your information is stored on the Exchange Server & it can be backed up daily.
- Updating One Will Update Them All - Avoid having different Emails & Contacts on the different computers & phones that you use.
- Accessible from Any Desktop, Laptop, or Smart Phone - Update a Calender, a Contact, or a Task & have it seen by everyone regardless of location or device. *
- Outlook Web Access (OWA) - Access your Emails, Contacts, Calendars, & Task over the Internet from any computer using Internet Explorer. **
- Avoid Mail Hosting Fees - Avoid the monthly fees for hosting your email services & avoid the high cost of? “mail box fees” for business hosted email services. ***
- Control Your Email Service - Control your Anti Spam solutions, don’t rely on a third party to get your messages to you, & control how your company’s information is backed up.
* Note: Access to MS Exchange is now possible on the Apple iPhone & has always been available on any phone running Microsoft Windows Mobile. Acces to MS Exchange from a Mac is possible using Entourage.
** Note: Access to Outlook Web Access (OWA) is possible using Firefox & Safari with only a minor loss in functionality.
*** Note: MS Exchange is bundled into “MS Windows 2003 Small Business Server” & into “MS Windows 2008 Small Business Server” at a very competitive price with an included copy of Outlook & Entourage that can be installed on your computers.
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Mar 17
How To Run IIS and Apache on Multi IP Server
There comes a time in the life of a network administrator or an Internet entrepreneur, the need to run Apache Web Server on a Single Host with a Multiple IPs. There are many reasons why one may wish to do such a thing. My reason for wanting to run Apache on IIS?with a?multi IP server is as follows:
- Wish to run ASP on IIS along with Dot NET which works without issues on IIS
- Also need to run PHP (Which does work on IIS but)
- I also need to run Mod_Rewrite for SEO friendly URLs (Which does not work on IIS)
So the dying question that on your mind if your reading this post is how…?
Lets first discus the basic prerequisite requirements prior to getting into the how:
Step by Step Instructions on How to run Apache Web Server on Windows Server with IIS with multiple IPs:
OK. Assuming you already have the above prerequisite requirements completed follow the step by step guide below: Continue reading »
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Mar 13
How to Restart FreeNAS from a remote computer
First of just a short intro to FreeNAS. FreeNAS is an opensource application that turns virtually any computer into a Network Are Storage Server. As the name suggests, FreeNAS is 100% and supported by a huge community of developers and boasts some amazing features. If you wish to learn more about FreeNas feel free to visit their website at http://www.freenas.org/
What you’ll need:
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Feb 08
Dual Booting Windows XP and Vista
Recently a client asked if it were possible to have both Window XP and Vista co-exist. The answer to this question is yes, but the installation can be tricky depending on which OS is installed first.
In this short article i discuss the two possible scenarios as follows:
Installing Vista after XP
Installing XP after Vista
Installing Windows Vista after XP:
This option is a piece of cake. If you already have Windows XP installed then it’s a relatively simple process to install Windows Vista on top of Windows XP.
There are a few assumption for this mission:
- Assumes you already have Windows XP Installed and Configured
- Assumes that you have a spare primary partition on your hard drive other than the one on which Windows XP is installed, or a second hard drive
- Assumes obviously that you have a Windows Vista CD/DVD and serial key (your own not one off the web)
To achieve this simple mission follows these steps: Continue reading »
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Dec 26
How to Copy Files and Folders in Linux (Ubuntu)
The copy command in Linux is “cp”? (Without quotes that is)
Examples uses:
Example #1 - Copy network files and folders from network shares to a Linux directory.
This example assumes that you have mapped (Mounted) the target network share in Linux. If you have not already done this I suggest you do this prior to moving forward.
If you don’t know how to map a network drive or a network share on a windows server, then you can get a quick tutorial from a previous article I wrote on How to map and mount network drives and windows shares.
Those less experienced and new to Linux may end up creating bottlenecks on their network by trying to copy large files and folders from the Windows share to the Linux folder via a Windows PC running SFTP or other such tool. Where the data has to go from the windows share to the laptop and then back out to the target Linux directory.
So back to the example. If you have now mapped a windows share on your Linux box then lets move forward.
Assuming your mount on the Linux box is at Continue reading »
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Dec 25
How to Map ( Mount) a Network Drive on a NAS or Windows Server
Definitions - First lets clear up a few technical terms.
Mount - Refers to making available drive space on the same or remote storage device. Typically used in the Linux world and is the equivalent of mapping a network drive in the Windows world.
Map - Refers to making available drive and resources on the same or a remove network resource such as a Windows server. Typically used in the Windows world and is the exact same as Mounting a Drive on Linux.
NAS - Is the acronym for “Network Area Storage”. As its name suggests, this is typically a dedicated network device that makes available drive space to all authorized and authntuicated network devices and users.
There will come a time in your life (sooner or later) where you will need to map (mount) a network drive to either a network device such as windows network shares or drives or a Network Area Storage (NAS)
The Scenario: Network consists of two Supermicro 1U Rackmount Dual Xeon Servers with Ubuntu 8.04 Server running absolute minimal server OS. These two server also have VMWare Server 2.0 installed on each of them. Minimal Ubuntu Install comprises of nothing more than a base installation with Continue reading »
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