Monthly Archives: July 2010

Using USB Pass-through in vSphere 4.1

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Christian Mohn

Finally USB pass-through is possible on ESX hosts with the new vSphere 4.1 release! This feature ha been available in VMware Workstation/Fusion and Player for quite a while. The freshly added feature in vSphere 4.1 even works if you vMotion the guest...

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Scheduling vCenter Backups

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Christian Mohn

If you run your vCenter on SQL Server Express 2005, you are missing the ability to set up scheduled backup jobs with SQL Maintenance Plans, a feature available in the full version of SQL Server. This might not be a problem if your backup software has...

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Migrating your vCenter from 32bit to 64bit

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Christian Mohn

As you may or may not know, the new vCenter 4.1 requires that the host it runs on is 64 bit. As 4.0 and previous versions weren’t supported on 64 bit at all, this probably means that when you upgrade you will need to move your existing database...

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Welcome to vNinja!

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Christian Mohn

Welcome to my new playground. I used to post quite a lot over at my old site, h0bbel.p0ggel.org but given it’s weird domain name and it’s long history I’ve decided to start fresh. This new site will be dedicated to all things virtua...

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