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Installing VMWare Tools on Windows Server 2008 Core

April 16, 2009

When installing the VMWare tools on a core install of Windows Server 2008 some people are confused to find that nothing happens after selecting “Install/Upgrade VMWare Tools” from the client window.

Even though the VMWare Tools image mounts to the virtual CD-ROM drive it does not autorun as you would expect in a normal install of [...]

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Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation

August 22, 2008

We’ve been virtualising Exchange Server 2007 since it was first released but this week Microsoft has announced their official support policies for virtualised Exchange environments. It is a bit heavy on the Hyper-V but also references the list of support partners for non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation. When I checked this earlier in the week VMWare [...]

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VMWare to release VMWare ESXi for free

July 23, 2008

I saw Dan’s post on this subject and did a little Googling and lo and behold, VMWare have announced that their ESXi product will be released for free.
I’m no VMWare guy like these guys , but as I understand it ESXi is the skinny little hypervisor (clocking in at 32mb) that lets you run [...]

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Flashy graph proves Microsoft virtualisation more cost effective than VMWare

February 25, 2008

You can’t argue with this Dan.

Source

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New VMWare blog

September 5, 2007

My colleague Dan has finally started his own blog about VMWare virtualisation products, and area he holds a lot of expertise in.
Check it out – PenguinPunk.net

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