Month: October 2010

Build a home ESX 4.x Server for $1,000

Update: I came up with a new parts list based on Sandy Bridge parts. You can check it out here.Currently I dual-boot my home computer with ESXi 4.1, but that's getting old. Yes, you can run ESXi 4.1 inside of VMware Workstation 7.1 (and I do), but you can't run...

Change your VMware VM UUIDs to be Unique

UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier) are also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier). A UUID is 128 bits long, and can guarantee uniqueness across space and time. Why do I care about UUIDs? Well VMware attempts to assign a unique UUID to every VM. Generally they succeed, but sometimes you can end...