This has been one of the features that never seem to have made it to VMware products such as Player and Workstation; The ability to boot from USB. Well with some 3rd party magic this is possible Using Plop Boot Manager all you need to do is boot from the provided floppy image or CD […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Today one of the Administrator users of VMware Lab Manager was attempting to import templates she had created. Unfortunately she ran into a snag. She was lacking the security privileges need to complete the tasks she was attempting. The level of administration required was that of a system administrator role. Info: The Systems Administrator Role can only […]