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A free-of-charge virtualization solution, which has now been discontinued.

VMWare Server is no longer maintained and will be replaced by other VMWare products. Support ended on June 30, 2011.

http://www.vmware.com

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Vmware / vmdk / virtual machine hosting providers?

I'm new to cloud/virtual hosting and having a difficult time finding much useful information on google about this question. Are there any reputable hosting providers out there, aside from hosting.com, who allow you to upload and manage your own…
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Make a copy running VM-ware Virtual Machines

I want to backup my virtual machines while they are running, is it possible to do this without buying more VM-Ware products? They are running on CentOS 5.2.
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How do I add a physical (raw) disk to a virtual machine in VMware Server 2 on a Windows host?

I have a Windows 64-bit host running VMware Server 2. I need to create VMs that will use the raw partitions for my Linux and Windows XP installations. Older versions of VMware had an option to add a raw disk, but VMware Server 2 only allows me to…
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How to modify maximum RAM usage in vCenter 6.0

I'm using VMware vCenter 6.0 on Windows server 2012 R2 and I'm looking for a way to decrease RAM usage of it. In previous vCenter versions there were options to change # Maximum Java Heap Size in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Inventory…
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What method can I use to manage hundreds of VPNs/Remote Connections to servers outside my network?

Problem We support hundreds of clients and have access to many of their servers via VPN/RDP (SSL VPN, Cisco VPN, MS VPN, etc.). The other kicker to this is we have to be able to let support employees in other departments of the company use these…
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vmware limit cpu usage

i have centOS dedicated server and installing vmware server how i can limit cpu/resource usage for each vm ? its very big problem my XEON server are overload..
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Vmware server 2 performance?

Have you noticed any VmWare server 2 performance issues? Can it be used for less important production systems?
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VMware Infrastructure Web Access certificate problem

Every time I launch the shortcut to the VMWare Infrustructure Web Access page I get a message in IE7 asking me to choose a digital certificate. I don't have any digital certificates, so I click "OK" or "Cancel"--it doesn't matter which. I'm taken…
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Cloning a VPS into a local VM?

I've got a fun challenge for you all. A company I'm working with is setting up its development/release workflow and environments. The eventual production environment is a VPS hosted with a popular host running CentOS within a Virtuozzo…
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Using a VM for testing, how to artifically reduce performance?

My workstation has VMWare Server, and I'm running a few VMs for mocked production environments. I'd like to artificially slow them down, which should make finding poorly-performing code easier. While only having 4GB of RAM on my Win7 box,…
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Web server inaccessible to one particular machine at same data center

I'm a programmer whose been pushed into server admin duty, and I've got a problem that's confusing me good. Lack of knowledge is no doubt the culprit, so educate me if you can. :) PROBLEM IN BRIEF: Two physical servers hosted by same dedicated…
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Why doesn't bridged networking work on VMware Server 2.0 w/ Ubuntu 9.04?

I'm installing VMware Server 2.0 on an Ubuntu 9.04 system. I have an Ubuntu 9.04 guest with Bridged network interface configured. When I try to get an address during installation, the guest fails to contact the DHCP server. NAT and Host-only…
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Optimum implementation of new SQL/IIS setup?

We need to implement a new MS-SQL/IIS server serving intranet pages internally. At the moment we are on average seeing 22 hits per second, but each request is quite small. What would be your recommended server configuration? a) single server with…
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Azure Backup Server on Azure VM to Protect on-premises workloads

I need to protect two VMware instances in a on-prem environment and want to achieve this by using Azure with Azure Backup and Azure Backup Server. The following image shows a referencing architecture: We really prefer to deploy the Azure Backup…
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Stop windows paging vmware

I have a couple of vm's running on windows server 2008 and since they are set up to build work project at 3am it seems the memory they use is getting paged to disk and taking for ever to start up when i log back into them. Is there any way to stop…
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