VMware ESX – Shared Disk Between VMs

In VMware virtualization environments (as a rule in clustering scenarios) it may be necessary to share the same disk (vmdk or RMD) between 2 (or more) virtual machines (VMs) on VMWare ESXi. The most optimal way is to use the vmdk disk physically located on the shared storage or locally on the ESXi host and this can be done following some specific configurations to be able to access data between different VMs on the same storage. Read More …

VMware vMotion – Error “Different offload or security policies”

This unable to migrate error indicates that the source and destination servers have different security or offload settings configured on the virtual switch or portgroup that the virtual machine is connected to and usually is related to Traffic Shaping options enabled not on all physical hosts. Read More …

VMware – OVF ha un manifest file non valido

Spesso, in ambienti VMware complessi si adopera molto la funzionalità di estrazione delle virtual machines in formato OVF/OVA, per poter trasferire tali VM su altri cluster VMware o semplicemente adoperarli come template su altri sistemi di virtualizzazione. Read More …

VMware ESX – Recreate a VMX file for a VM

On a VMware ESX infrastructure (especially during VM migration between two not connected ESX) there could be a tedious scenario: once you have extracted a VM from the old ESX and imported to the new one you realize that the VM’s VMX file is probably corrupted. Read More …