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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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