I am a big fan of running everything virtually.\u00a0 There used to be day when I had a ton of kit but now all I have is a small HP Microserver, an i7 Lenovo desktop PC, Lenovo T440S i7 Laptop and an i3 Surface Pro 3. I use VMware Workstation 10 as much as I can.\u00a0\u00a0 I used to use Virtual Box back in the day but found it just too troublesome with converting VM’s from manufacturers.
\nMost of the time it is very easy to download a virtual machine from a manufacturer and it will just run.\u00a0 Juniper, Microsoft and some others are good.\u00a0 Some will be in VMware appliance formats.\u00a0 Others use the open OVA format.\u00a0 Others such as Cisco, F5 and Fortinet will only support OVA’s that you can only import into ESX.\u00a0 Workstations fails with various errors even though\u00a0 – in theory – OVA is an open, portable format\u00a0 …….
\nMy fix is do this:<\/p>\n
1) Download VMware ESX evaluation<\/p>\n
2) Install as a VM within VMware Workstation<\/p>\n
3) Navigate to the ESX Managment address via a browser.\u00a0\u00a0 Either use the Web GUI or vCentre GUI<\/p>\n
4) Import the OVA into ESX<\/p>\n
5) Once imported.\u00a0\u00a0 Navigate to the Data Store Browser.<\/p>\n
6) Copy out the whole folder for the imported VM<\/p>\n
7) Open the VMX in VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n
8) Edit the NIC’s etc as nessiary<\/p>\n
9) Start the VM<\/p>\n
That seems to always work for me !
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