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VMware ESX – Shared Disk Between VMs

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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 – The OVF package is invalid and cannot be deployed

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During a VM migration on a VMware ESX infrastructure, using OVA/OVF formats, VMware importing process could be difficult due to the possibility to deploy the OVF/OVA package, and the vSphere Client fails. Read More …

VMware ESX – Recreate a VMX file for a VM

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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 …