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 […]
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Looking for a method to restart a non-persistent environment in ESXi or vCenter, I was able to use PowerCLI to issue the commands needed. Originally I was looking to automate the recovery of a snapshot when it dawned on me that a non-persistent disk would facilitate the same thing. However I would need to power off the server […]
I am looking for a way to run a instance and have it revert back to its snapshot every 24 hours. I started toying around with the idea to use the vim-cmd features however there doesn’t seem to be a way to set a task for this. So far here are the steps I used […]
So you have made an awesome system in VMware ESXi and exported it an OVF Template. Later to find that something has gone very wrong and the template will not import and gives you the following error: If you have encountered this it means that your Template was originally created with a ISO image still attached […]
From our friends over at VMware we now have news of vCloud Air. A public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery. With vCloud Air you can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud. vCloud Air’s billing mode uses the IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) […]
Issue: I am unable to connect to a VPN server hosted as a guest on VMware ESXi 5.5. After much troubleshooting it seems that the issue with my PPTP connections is that GRE isn’t making it to my server. In my logs I found the following: vyatta pptpd[2777]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed […]