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HowTo: Fix VMware error “No more space for virtual disk”
VMware snapshots will grow over time as they have to maintain a delta file to track what changes have happened to the VM since the snapshot was taken. These will eat up space if left for long periods of time and can eventually consume all of the avaiable free space (thus causing this error).
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VMware – Virtualize Everything / Polygraph Test Video
Hilarious video from VMware showing where Microsoft really stands in the virtualization realm. I loved using Microsoft’s Hyper-V but VMware’s line of products changes the game by virtualizing entire data centers; your kitchen sink is not safe!
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VMWare ESXi VMDK Hot-Add in Ubuntu 12.04
Sometimes it’s necessary to hot-add a new hard drive to a VM (temporary backup disk, etc…). In this case we will be using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the VM client and VMWare ESXi vSphere 5.0.0. First we need to install the scsi-tools package from the default repositories. These commands must be executed as root/sudo.…
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HowTo: Send traffic through a virtual router (Untangle) using VMWare ESXi host
Untangle website: http://www.untangle.com/ VMware website: http://www.vmware.com/ So you have a few VMware VM’s acting as web servers or OpenVPN or whatever… Now you want them protected by a firewall or to have their own subnet equipped with a DNS or DHCP server or maybe subnet gateway anti-virus. It’s actually pretty easy to force VMs to…