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FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key. FreeNAS supports SCSI, PATA (IDE), SATA, CF and USB Drives. This Software runs on FreeBSD. Please visit http://www.freenas.org/ for more information, documentation and downloads.

You can manage your ESX 3.5 server (only Guest systems) thru a web console. To access, http://servername/ui ex: http://myesx/ui I tried same with ESX 3i, no luck. Still digging more, if you have answer, please let me know :)

Virtual Infrastructure TCP Ports (VI 3.5)

By default, the hibernation in Windows 2008 enabled. As well, the Hibernate file (C:\Hiberfil.sys, hidden OS file) takes around more than 1GB. Most of us., not going to do hibernate a server. So, I feel that it is not required. We can save some disk space as well. I checked with Power Settings on Control Panel to disable the hibernate and delete the file. Unfortunately, Hibernate is disabled state in all power settings (Windows 2008 having 3 diffrent power options). Still, I was unable to delete. Found a way to delete it. Enter into command prompt by using RUN. Then type the following command to disable the hibernate. POWERCFG -H OFF Now, the hiberfil.sys is deleted. If you change your mind turn on the hibernate back: POWERCFG -H ON

How To Delay Auto Starting Virtual Machines In VMWare Server Running multiple Operating Systems as Virtual Machines has numerous advantages, until it comes time to reboot the Host Computer (running VMWare Server). You either need to manually start all VM's or allow them to startup at once causing a system wide bottleneck to occur on the Host. Instead of trying to start up all VM's at once, you can configure VMWare Server to delay the startup times for each Virtual Machine, and specify the order in which each VM starts. In fact, an option also exist to auto shutdown each VM in a delayed ordered, making way for a more responsive Host during reboots. For reasons unknown, you cannot configure delayed starting and shutdown of VM's using VMWare Server Console. Instead you need to use the web based VMWare Management Interface (VMI). The Management Interface is installed during VMWare Server installation if it detects a Web Server (Apache or IIS) is installed. It can also be instal

VMware’s CEO Paul Maritz just announced that in the near future ESXi will be available for free, that’s right you can just download it. Support is optional and sold separately. ESXi will become available for free over the next week. The planned date is July 28'2008. The new 3i edition was introduced end of last year. It doesn’t change the characteristics of the hypervisor but fundamentally chances a part of its architecture, dropping the Console Operating System (COS) and reducing the overall system footprint to 32Mb. Happy Virtualization!!!

Internet Explorer 8 BETA version is released by Microsoft recently. I got a chance to see video demo of this product, looks pretty cool. You can download this from Microsoft website. Follow the Link:  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx

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How to Reset the forgotten VNC Password In many occasion we used to forget the passwords. This document describes how to reset the password for RealVNC. We will be modifying the registry of the system. Please make sure that you have good back up copy of your registry. Please connect to the system which you forgotten the password thru “Connect Network Registry” different system in REGEDIT. In the box, the enter either IP address or Host name of the server. You can see the connected server beneath the physical server. If VNC password is enabled, the Registry appears like this: Now, we have to edit both fields which are highlighted by RED box. First, we will reset the password field. Select the Password and right click on that, then select “Modify” Select those characters and delete them. Press OK and close the box. You can see only “0000”. After close the box, password field shows "Zero-length binary value" Secondly, we need to modify the “Security Types” field, select the fiel

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