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This is the link to a very nice guide to install VMware ESX 3.5

http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2008/05/esx-35-console-installation.html

Via: TechHead

After the recent change on VMware ESXi there gonna be a lot of people using whiteboxes, in VMware terms, whitebox is a machine which is not officially supported but ESX works on this hardware and now that ESXi is a free product maybe you gonna build one of this machine…

http://ultimatewhitebox.com/ is gonna be a reference database for compatible hardware.

I found a link with a very nice and useful guide with commands to administer VMware ESX 3, there are commands like:

esxcfg-info
Produces an enormous amount of information about the ESX host. You really need to pipe this to a file for closer examination!

[root@esx1host root]# esxcfg-info >esxinfo.txt

and much more!!!
http://b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm

and if you are still running VMware ESX 2.x, there is a guide for that version too!
http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware.htm

Maybe you like me, are one of those who use WAPD for auto configuration, i use it for auto configure the ISA Firewall Client so the computer knows what’s the ISA ip address, this work very nice and is working this way since two year here where i work, and we choose to install two new domain controllers with Win2k8 and change the DNS Servers in the DHCP configuration so the DNS for all our machines are now the two new Win2k8 and there the problem started, some users reported that the ISA firewall Client is showing a red sign…. bad.. the first thing that i do was check our ISA Server and fine that is working without any problem and after 5 minutes I found that WPAD wasn’t resolving to the isa server.

A quick Google search, found this [ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441517(TechNet.10).aspx ] and everything is back to normal…… time to read more about new things on windows Server 2008.

I try a few times to install Windows XP in my ESX test machine at home without success…. WinXP lack of LSI Logic and BusLogic drivers so the install stop when is trying to find a HardDisk to be installed. The solution ? http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-creating-a-windows-xp-vm-and-getting-error-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-installed-in-your-computer

The topic of this post is very similar to http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bind9-set-vanity-dns-nameserver/, and if you think that, is true… because i read that article this morning a start thinking ” that could be done using Windows DNS Service.... ” and this is how a did it.

First create a test zone using DNS Console on Windows 2003 Server.
( Since this zone is not going to be integrate into Active Directory, click Next 3 times. ).
(leer mas! …)

This is not my first post in English, but is another one of more that are coming! and now with the help of this great plugin (Gengo).

Yes we are planning to get rid of a few ISA Servers in favor of pfsense, the main reason is his LoadBlanace function and CARP.
more of this topic is coming soon… while you can check this CARP tutorial.

http://pfsense.basis06.com/download//tutorials/carp/carp-cluster-new.htm

The guy behind Home Server Hacks put together a nice guide on how to build a Green WHS at low cost..

Build a Green $400 Windows Home Server - Part 1: Getting started

Yesterday i try to post a comment on Home Server Hacks a blog owned by an WHS MVP, but the think was, to post a comment on this site ( i think is hosted at blogger..) you need at least a blogger account, but it work with others and the one i choose to have is one based on OpenID. Mine is from myOpenID and is setup with BSDlatino.org domain name!

http://www.myOpenID.com