Cannot launch vSphere Client on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2

This is a very common issue going around where most of the people are facing the errors with Win7

• Error parsing the server "" "clients.xml" file.

File Sharing across Linux Machines

To share the Files across the Linux machines we need to setup the NFS share. 

NFS (Network File System) is a protocol used by UNIX/Linux computers to share disks across a network. Similar to the Common Internet File Services (CIFS) protocol used by Windows, NFS is older and more light-weight, and performs much more efficiently on UNIX and Linux systems. 

Runnig Windows applications in Unix/Linux Platform

So you want to run windows application/software on Unix/Linux machines??

below are the 2 ways you can do.......

First way is for the lazy people or I can say for the people who have more money and less time to crack their heads ;-)

Just download the product

How to create Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger

This is for few of my friends who have been asking me couple of times How to create Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger?

Here you go.......

Most of us have more than 1 yahoo messenger id with us and want to login at the same time. Well its little annoying for me to login to yahoo messenger with one id and other at the yahoo mail or using different IM clients.  

How to Disable Ctrl+alt+del ?

This might be little old thing but I think that still many people would like to know about it. So let me try to put it across to you all guys.

     To the people who don't know the history about the Ctrl+alt+del ,This keyboard combination was implemented by David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC.

Bumps on the F and J keyboard keys

     Ever wondered why is there bumps on the F and J keyboard keys? , The question itself gives a very strange feeling; we techies play around on the keyboard alot but have never given a thought why there are bumps on F & J keys.

Performance tuning of VMware using Large Page

      Lets talk on the subject to understand what we are going to do here.

              

            VMware® ESX Server supports the use of large pages inside virtual machines. The large‐page support enables server applications to establish large‐page memory regions. Memory address translations use translation lookaside buffers (TLB) inside the CPU. The use of large pages can potentially increase TLB access efficiency and thus improve program performance. This study examines the performance of this feature. Most modern processors support memory pages of large sizes, called “large pages” or “super pages.”

What is Clustering .........

-> What is clustering?

     In computers, clustering is the use of multiple computers, typically PCs or workstations, multiple storage devices and redundant interconnections, to form what appears to users as a single highly available system. Cluster computing can be used for load balancing, parallel processing as well as for high availability. Clustering approach can help an enterprise achieve 99.999 availability in some cases. One of the main ideas of cluster computing to the outside world is that the cluster appears to be a single system.

Contents of VMware tools and their functions

Hi Friends,

I have found many people who are working on VMware struggle to get the list of drivers or contents of VMware tools, below are the contents of VMware tools and their functions.

–>Firstly What is VMware Tools?

It is a suite of utilities that enhances the pe

How to Configure Jumbo frames in ESX 4 for iSCSI

Jumbo Frames !!!!!!

-> Lets understand what’s Jumbo Frames first and how it benefits us ... 

• Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1,500 bytes of payload (MTU). Conventionally, jumbo frames can carry up to 9,000 bytes of payload.
  

How to Customize Windows 7 Logon Background

Now lets have some fun by customizing windows 7 login background :-)

We are going to play with the windows registry so be very careful.

Following are the steps.

How to configure iSCSI on Linux -Red hat

A very common question and issue among the new bee is How-to Configure iSCSI On Linux? So here we go ..

Step 1:

First check on your system if you have iSCSI rpm installed:

#rpm -qa iSCSI

if not then install the iSCSI packages