Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology) by Cody Bunch
Building Blocks: vSphere 6.0 and vCenter 6.0 by Tom Burge  and Calvin Kohler-Katz
Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach by Toby Velte,  Anthony Velte  and Robert Elsenpeter
Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks  and Rajen Guendoo
Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Second Edition by Abhilash G B
Enterprise Java Applications Architecture on VMware by Emad Benjamin
IBM System Storage N Series With Vmware Vsphere 5 by IBM Redbooks
It Architect: Foundation in the Art of Infrastructure Design: A Practical Guide for It Architects by Vcdx-001,

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Problem scenario:  Using Oracle VirtualBox on a 64 bit version of Windows, you go to create a new virtual machine as a guest server.  You want it to run a 64 bit version of Linux. You start to build the new machine using Oracle VirtualBox. You choose the “Version” and only see 32 bit options.  You have a processor (hardware) that is 64 bit.  The Windows OS is 64 bit. 

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Problem Scenario:  You downloaded an .ova file.  You want to create a virtual server (a clone) with this pre-configured OS.  How do you use Oracle VirtualBox to use this .ova file?

Solution
1.  Open Oracle VirtualBox
2.  Go to File -Import Appliance (or press Ctrl-i)
3.  Select the OVA file
4.  Click “Next”
5.  Now you are ready to start the VM.

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Problem scenario
You are running Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host.  You have Linux CentOS guest server.  Guest additions fails to install.  You tried to run this script VBoxLinuxAdditions.run.  The run fails with an error saying “
check /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details.”

You examined /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log, and it said this:
“vboxadd.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong.
vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc,

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Problem scenario:  You want to use Oracle VirtualBox or some other hosted hypervisor with your HP Probook laptop.  You need “Virtualization Technology (VTx)” enabled.  How do you do this?

Solution

1.  Boot up.  When you see the “HP” splash screen (a blue image with a black background), press F10.

2.  At the prompt, “Log in as a Guest User” choose “Yes.” (This step may be crucial to your success.)

3.

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Problem scenario:  You are trying to mount a file share using Oracle VirtualBox.  You have a Windows host and a Linux CentOS guest.  (For complete directions on how to set up a folder share for this scenario, see this link.) 

You are trying to run this command:  “mount -t vboxsf contint /mnt/windows-share”
# where “contint” is the name of the folder share in the Oracle VirtualBox GUI.

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