music by: Chuck Mangione vocals by: Don Potter There’s no place for me to hide The thoughts of all the time I cried And felt this pain That I have known Because I needed just to hear That special something And then one day You just appear You said “hello” “Let’s make love along […]
So you are running VMware ESXi 5 and enabled remote and local shell access. What you have found by doing this is a nice warning screen like the screenshot below waiting for you each and every time you are logged in. Getting rid of this is simple. Go to your host, click the configuration tab, […]
I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host. vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Get power state of a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> From the image above you […]
For those of you who understand the topic reference. Shame on you. Doing some digging on how this would work i came across the following help document from our friends over at Skype (now, Microsoft) on how to run multiple Skype clients on a single desktop session. The procedure was shockingly simple to do. From the Windows taskbar, […]
I wrote some steps on this in a previous post. I am back again to take you for my ride in upgrading to update 1 for ESXi 5. Direct download update link: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-328-20120312-212851/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip Once you have the upgrade zip, you will wan to SCP this over to the ESXi 5 server. I use my datastore […]
Resolved / New: No error message is logged when VMkernel stops a virtual machine on a datastore that is in PDL state When a SCSI device goes into permanent device loss (PDL) state, all the virtual machines that use datastores backed by that SCSI device are affected. Some third party HA solutions incorporate a VMX option […]