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One more great guide from the guys at TheHowToForge! A step by step instruction on how to use the Host Update Utility from VMware. http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-vmware-esxi-3.5-to-4.1-update-1-free-version
Nice video from VMware!
First enable local or remote TSM from the vSphere Client on every ESXi host: Select the host and click the Configuration tab. Click Security profile > Properties. Click Local Tech Support or Remote Tech Support (SSH) and click Options. Choose the desired startup policy and click Start, then click OK. Verify that the daemon selected [...]
I found this great Powershell script that convert virtual disk files to eagered zeroed. Awesome script! I had to make some changes to make it work in my environment. function Set-EagerZeroThick{ param($vcName, $vmName, $hdName) # Find ESX host for VM $vmImpl = Get-VM $vmName Write-Host $vmImpl if($vmImpl.PowerState -ne “PoweredOff”){ Write-Host “Guest must be powered off [...]
A couple of days ago I found a really great PowerCLI script that move templates i vSphere. Awesome post and script by afokkema at ict-freak.nl! Storage vMotion is a great feature to Move your VMs to other datastores. But what if you want to move your Templates? In the current version of vSphere there is [...]
I found a great post on how to remove the Host <ESXi Hostname> currently has no management network redundancy warning that you get on a typical ESXi whitebox installation. Due to the fact that most whitebox machines don’t have multiple nics.. For more info and screenshots, checkout the original post. When you completed building your [...]
Last week I upgraded a vCenter 4.0 installation to 4.1u1. The vCenter was installed on a 32-bit VM so I needed to migrate the installation to a new 64-bit host. I tried to do the migration according to the vSphere 4.1 upgrade pre-installation requirements and considerations guide. But sadly I got an error during the [...]
Recently I had to install VMware Tools on a Trixbox installation. 1. First, in the VMware console, run ‘install vmware tools’ in the menu 2. Mount the cd-rom drive in an empty folder: cd /media mkdir cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom 3. Copy the .tar.gz file to somewhere such as /home & extract.. cp [...]
I have been experiencing that the mouse pointer in my VMware Fusion gets somewhat sluggish from time to time. It got slow for a second or two. Quite annoying. It turns out that this is caused by VMware Fusion attempts to “optimize mouse for gaming”. Totally useless in my opinion.. Just disable this in the [...]
Lately I’ve found that the my vSphere Client has been really slow. It turned out that deleting the following 2 registry keys does the trick: HKCU\Software\VMware\Virtual Infrastructure Client HKCU\Software\VMware\VMware Infrastructure Client Check out the original post here: Apparently, all the prior versions and settings get retained during updates / upgrades and seem to cause significant [...]