A Look at ESXCLI – Part 1
I’m fairly used to working with the esxcfg/vicfg commands through working with ESX and vMA, but since vSphere 5 came along I’m increasingly aware of esxcli as a tool for…
vCloud Director Appliance Root Password
I’ve just seen a VMware communities question on this, and given that I’ve searched for it a couple of times myself I thought I’d do a quick post here. The…
Recreating A Missing VMDK Descriptor File
I recently came up against a problem with a VM that had been restored from backup. It appeared that the xxxxx.vmdk file had become corrupt.This meant that the ESX host…
How to Reset vMA Root Password
This article shows how to reset the root password on a vMA or VMware Virtual Management Appliance. This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, mainly…
Quick Method for Downloading VM-Support Files
If you are looking for a quick method for downloading vm-support files when working with VMware support, then with ESXi 5 there is a new way to do this you…
Windows 2008 R2 System Reserved Partition and Citrix Provisioning Server
With Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7, the Windows installer creates a 100 MB system reserved partition by default which you will have noticed in Windows Disk Management: This…
Virtual Windows NLB Nodes
I’ve recently been involved in an Exchange 2010 implementation project, specifically due to the Client Access Servers being created as virtual machines, on ESXi, and requiring network load balancing. It’s…
Enable SSH and Command Line Access on ESXi 4.1
I had a question today regarding how to enable console access on ESXi 4.1, following an upgrade from an ESX 3.5 environment. Until ESXi 4.1 the only official way to…
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