That time has come, when you upgrade vCenter 6.0. Here are some quick simple steps to see this done. As always, its a good idea to have a backup before proceeding. In my case I used a snapshot of my appliance. This was done by me connecting directly to the ESXi and creating a snapshot. […]
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The day would come where I would need to change my password in vCenter… Today was that day; Thankfully vCenter places am informative notice of your expiring password. Here is how you can change your password using vCenter 6: Log into vCenter 6 Click Home. Click Administration. Click Single Sign-On > Users and Groups. Click the Users […]
I moved myself to a new workstation and followed my previous steps to export my putty sessions. This time around I am exporting my Virtual Infrastructure Client settings From the run prompt (shortcut keys: WinKey+R) enter regedit,, this opens the registry editor Locate the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware On the File menu, click Export In File name, enter […]
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Tech Short Q&A: What is a Hypervisor?
It’s interesting that this classification isn’t new. In fact it was classified by Gerald J. Popek back in 1974 in the article “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures” So to answer the question: A hypervisor is a hardware virtualization technique which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on a single host system hardware […]
Oh yeah; anyone else have the warm fuzzy feeling right now; Hashtags: #VMware #vCenter #ESXi All in my home lab. Once again I have the management capabilities over systems that I prefer. VMware vCenter 6 is awesome and I am in love with the web interface Next — Storage upgrade 3.0. That will be 16TB […]
Using Windows task scheduler you can schedule power off and on events for guest systems running in VMware vCenter or a standalone ESXi host. My steps: Create a basic task – give it a name and description (optional) Choose when you want this task to stat Select the start date and time Choose “Start a […]