A guest OS is an operating system that is installed in a virtual machine or disk partition in addition to the host or main OS. In virtualization, a single computer can run more than one OS at the same time. In disk partitioning, a guest OS must be the same as the host OS. In a virtualization solution, a guest OS can be different from the host OS.
I have been working on a Cloud data protection application which would be running on AWS Cloud EC2 instance, for some information processing I need to get the instance id of my Amazon AWS EC2 instance which my software is running. Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or…
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Shadow Copies are possible for almost all volumes and not “all volumes”. There are few cases which the shadow copy may not work Enough Space The shadow storage volume must contain enough free space. At the very minimum you need at least 300 MB or so, for a single shadow copy, for multiple shadow copies, the…
VSS hardware provider can be initiate and test using DiskShadow Commands Open the Powershell and Enter Diskshadow PS C:\Users\Administrator> diskshadow Microsoft DiskShadow version 1.0 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation On computer: WIN-VigneshDev, 5/22/2015 12:06:35 AM DISKSHADOW> List the Hardware Providers DISKSHADOW> list providers * ProviderID: {74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092} Type: [2] VSS_PROV_SOFTWARE Name: Hyper-V IC Software Shadow Copy…
First login to the ubuntu server via terminal or console To gain super user access, enter the following command and re-type the user password. sudo su – Type the following command to set the password for the Root user passwd root This will prompt user to enter the new password. and confirm password The terminal…
Inconsistent Backup The oldest type of backup probably not consistent. The process of taking the backup was so simple, backup application starts at the beginning of a file structure and copies all of the data until it reaches the end, resulting in a backup (Inconsistent). The reason which can make this backup inconsistent is that…
The OVF in vSphere is not just about deployment and packaging. There is also a runtime part, namely the OVF environment. This is a feature that has been around since the early days of vSphere 4.x, if not earlier which provides a mechanism to retrieve some of this information as well as custom properties. The…
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. For example, the following features are just some of the features that are available only if VMware Tools is installed: Significantly faster graphics performance and Windows Aero on operating systems…
Nested ESX / Virtualization Nested ESX / Virtualization is the ESX or any hypervisor running as a pseudo-machine, in this blog we will see how to set up ESXi 5.1 as a VM in ESXi 5.1 and Installing ESXi 5.1 Nested Virtualization with the 5.1 Release Intel VT-x or AMD-V is required for running “Nested…