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 [...]
Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation
August 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 was [...]
VMWare to release VMWare ESXi for free
July 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Flashy graph proves Microsoft virtualisation more cost effective than VMWare
February 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
You can’t argue with this Dan. Source
New VMWare blog
September 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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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