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J'ai eu besoin de transformer un serveur physique avec une Ubuntu, en serveur sous VMware. (Ce n'est pas moi qui choisi.. pas de trolls svp ;) ) A priori, le soft VMware pour faire cela ne fonctionne que si la source est un OS Windows, et des outils comme liveview semblent avoir un un support Gnu/Linux partiel. J'ai donc voulu tenter d'abord avec l'utilisation d'un simple dd et cela semble avoir parfaitement fonctionné.

Pour ceux qui souhaitent tester VMware ESXi mais ne veulent pas encore l’installer sur des disques, il est possible de l’utiliser directement sur une clef USB.

This document describes how to convert a VMware-formatted virtual machine (VM) into a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.

A V2V tool to convert VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server/Virtual PC virtual machines (with Microsoft Windows installed) to the Xen Virtual Appliance (XVA) format.

Virtualization offers advantages that include server consolidation, isolation, rapid provisioning, and improved change management processes. Since virtualization breaks the hardware dependency and isolates virtual machines from details about the physical servers on which they are hosted, virtual images can be moved from one hosting platform to another. They can also be cloned to create more virtual machines, as desired. One of the challenges with cloning virtual images is handling operating system, network, and application specific customization. This article provides a sample framework for automating virtual image activation on new host platforms. This article, along with a previous article on Using virtual image templates to deploy WebSphere Application Server, demonstrates an automated approach for quickly and easily provisioning new WebSphere Application Server environments. The sample deployment and activation code included with this article is independent of WebSphere Application Server and can be used in conjunction with other software inside a virtual image. The specific example provided here is for WebSphere Application Server V6 in VMware or XEN virtual images, using SUSE V10 as the guest operating system. The activation techniques described in this article can be used in conjunction with IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager as described in Using Tivoli Provisioning Manager to deploy composite virtual appliances.

Converting a VMWare image to Xen HVM

The process for converting a VMWare VMDK disk image to Xen HVM is rather quite easy. However, there are "gotchas" that you need to consider when doing this conversion.

This tutorial explains how to convert a VMWARE image of a Debian Etch to a XEN image on a Debian Sid dom0 using XEN 3.0.3.

Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced "Juice") is an efficient variant of the popular desktop and server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances. "The efficiencies inherent in an operating system that is built for a virtualised world mean that ISVs looking to deploy their applications in this lucrative and growing market have an obvious deployment target in the Ubuntu JeOS Edition," said Stephen O'Grady, analyst at RedMonk. "As the delivery platforms and economics of licensing continue to change, the flexibility and reach of the Ubuntu operating system make it an increasingly popular choice for far sighted ISVs."

Vmware server comes with the nifty vmware-cmd utility. It allows an administrator to perform various operations on a virtual machine from Linux command line / shell prompt such as: => Stop / Start VM => Get VM status => Setup variables => Powerdown VM and much more

JeOS (Just Enough Operating System) est un concept qui s'applique à tous les systèmes d'exploitation dépourvus de drivers/logiciels et ainsi optimisés pour la virtualisation (un bon lien en anglais pour en savoir plus sur le blog de VMware). Cette future version d'Ubuntu (déjà dénommée JeOs sur internet) sera une version ubuntu-server dépourvue de ses drivers. Cela est rendu possible par la capacité des produits de virtualisation à implémenter une couche d'abstraction matérielle qui permet à VMware et aux autres de "gérer eux-mêmes le rôle de pilote". Objectifs : obtenir un système optimisé pour ce qu'il doit faire, et donc moins volumineux, plus sécurisé et plus performant. Dans le même temps, on apprenait la mise à disposition en Open Source de la majorité des composants de VMWare Tools.

VAFEO est une suite des distributions Linux qui propose des applications open source parmi les plus réputées. Les distributions VAFEO sont composées d'une base Debian Etch et d'un ensemble d'applications cohérentes. VAFEO offre des images systèmes prêtes à utiliser dans de différents environnements virtuels : KVM, Parallels, VirtualBox, Virtual PC, VMWare, ou Xen. VAFEO existe aussi sous forme de Live CD/DVD qui permet aux utilisateurs d'effectuer une évaluation rapide de la suite. Dans le cas où le système répond aux attentes, l'outil vafeo2hd pourra être activé afin d'installer une distribution sur disque dur pour un usage permanent.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to create a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian Etch system. With this tutorial, you will be able to create Virtual Machines that will be available on multiple systems with failover/failback capabilities.

Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine : Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionnalities to Nagios.Image It ables you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision informations readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered informations. Although, skilled users still have access to the technicals informations collected by Nagios. Centreon was released for three years, and has already conviced most of its everyday users. Oreon has became a reference as a Nagios Frontend. The Centreon/Nagios couple is used by a wide range of users, from novices to skilled users, even if they didn't knew Nagios before.

This virtual appliance contains a ready to use ossim deployment. For detailed information about OSSIM please refer to http://www.ossim.net Ossim stands for Open Source Security Information Management. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive compilation of tools which, when working together, grant a network/security administrator with detailed view over each and every aspect of his networks/hosts/physical access devices/server/etc... Besides getting the best out of well known open source tools, some of which are quickly described below these lines, ossim provides a strong correlation engine, detailed low, mid and high level visualization interfaces as well as reporting and incident managing tools, working on a set of defined assets such as hosts, networks, groups and services.