Customize a Template During Deployment
When deploying a Virtual Machine from a template you have the option of Using the Customization Specifications for Automating Deployment. I am sure this has been mentioned more than once but I could …
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Subscribe via RSS →How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …
vCenter on Windows 2008 R2 - not the best idea
Ladies and Gentlemen!!! Because I have seen two such posts in almost as many days here and here - dealing with installation of vCenter Server on Windows 2008 R2 (which of course is 64-bit only) I feel …
ESX 4.0 Active Directory Authentication
There are numerous posts about how to use Active Directory to authenticate your ssh logins to your ESX servers. Jason Boche,Travis Laird, Geert Baeke The idea is pretty simple Configure the ESX server …
Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?
It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …
Install VMware Tools on Server Core
Just to remind you all - Server Core - NO GUI! I needed to install VMware tools today on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 Core. Start the VMware tools install. msiexec /i <path to>\VMware Tools64.msi …
FastSCP 3.0.2.270 Beta
For all of you who have been waiting for a version that works on Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2 it is out. For those that do not know the current tool does not work correctly on Windows 7 or …
Disabling Web Services in ESXi
Duncan posted this one this evening. So to add to his post there is a way to “hide” the web service at least front page in ESXi the configuration file that is responsible for all this is …
VMFS or NFS
We are outgrowing our current storage capabilities, and virtualization is one of main “customers” that is causing this. So we are now looking for a 2nd storage that will enable us to …
Adding ESXi as a standard Operating System
Lately I have been asked more and more to install an ESXi system on a whitebox. Why you may ask - because users (we are a R&D company) are asking to have a box with multiple operating systems with …