How to Install VMware Workstation and Create a Virtual Machine on Your PC VMware Workstation is a computer emulator. It allows you to create virtual machines in which you can install operating systems as if they were physical machines. You might want to emulate an operating system because you want to run a program that isn't compatible with the host operating system (the operating system that...

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 3) - In Use Home Articles & Tutorials VMware ESX and vSphere Articles Performance Tuning VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 3) - In Use by David Davis [Published on 14 Nov. 2012 / Last Updated on 14 Nov. 2012] Tweet 17 In this third and final article in the series, I’ll show you how to make best use of this new vSphere infrastructure perfo...

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 2) - Installation This article shows how to download vCops and how to get it deployed, in your virtual infrastructure, in short order. If you would like to read the other parts in this article series please go to: VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 1) - Introduction VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 3) - In Use Introduction In my first...

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 1) - Introduction This article looks into what VMware vCenter Operations Manager offers, the flavors it comes in, and why you need it. If you would like to read the other parts in this article series please go to: VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 2) - Installation VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Part 3) - In Use Introduction Up until re...

Step-by-step how-to expand Windows virtual disks If you have a Windows virtual machine with an operating system prior to Windows 2008, where this function is available, you need a third-party tool to expand your partitions. This tutorial will explain you, step-by-step, how to do this task; you can do it on both data disks and boot disks.   From vClient, go to VM settings (in this e...

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Recovery 1. Open up VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 and click on Recovery Plans on the left hand side. Click on the Recovery Steps tab. 2. Click on Recovery at the top right hand side of the screen. You will get the following warning window before the recovery plan is executed. You must tick the box to say you understand that this process will permanently alte...

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Recovery Plan Testing 1. Within Site Recovery Manager 5, click on Recovery Plans on the left hand side. Click on VMware Primary Servers under All Recovery Plans. Click on recovery Steps tab. 2. Click Test just below the Recovery Steps Tab and to the right. A window is displayed notifying you that running this plan in test mode will recovery the VMs in a test ...

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Recovery Plans 1. Within Site Recovery Manager 5, click on Recovery Plans on the left hand side. 2. Click Create Recovery Plan on the right hand side window. Select Secondary Site Lab for where the vm’s will be recovered. Click Next. 3. Select the Protection Group that we created in Part 7 of this series. Click Next. 4. In the vmlab secondary datace...

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Creating a Protection Group 1. Within VMware Site Recovery Manager 5, click on Protection Groups on the left hand side. 2. Click on Create Protection Group on the left hand side window. I will select the Protected Site as Primary Site Lab and the Protection Group Type will be Array based replication (SAN). As you can see below, under Array Pair I select the S...

VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Resource Mappings 1. Open up vCenter if it’s not already open and enter into Site Recovery Manager. Click on the Primary Site. Click on the Resource Mappings Tab. As you can see for my Primary Site I have 2 Resource Groups, Web 1 and Web 2. We will be mapping these Resource Groups to Resource Groups on the Secondary Site. 2. Make sure you have your Primary Si...