Troy Clavell

"something like below? http://viadmin.com/how-to-install-esx-4-1.html"

"If we want to increase Hard disk size for a VM. How do we do that? Can we do it while it is power on? yes.  NEVER increase the size of a H"

"there's nothing to really install per say.. You're just enabling the web UI.  You still need to install vCenter either way.  All the webclie"

"then you'll need to look at PlateSpin https://www.netiq.com/products/migrate//"

"I have Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone. I have copyed a physical machine to my machine as a virtual. I want to deploy the Virtual ba"

"you would backup the guest.  In the event you need to revert to your backups, you would just restore from backup and power on the guest.  "

"There are many backup products, one of which is VMware's own, vDR There are plenty of 3rd party vendors such as PHD Virtual, Veeam, etc..."

"When using vCenter to convert my Workstation 8 machine to my ESXi 5 Server at 96% I get this error   FAILED: Unable to create '\\.\vstor2-"

"Yes, the install will create the necessary jobs related for SQL.  Just ensure you have dbo on the MSDB (to create the rollup jobs) and the V"

"see, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007468"

"either or would work.  A rebuild is just my personal preference.  For a home lab, I see no reason why an in place upgrade shouldn't be an op"

"as a.p. pointed out it's a block size issue.  A good blog post below may also help a bit http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/02/24/storage"

"This is for vSphere4, but same setup applies   http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.dcadmin.d"