If you are using VMWare version 6 or above and want a full export list of all your machines on it, then you can quickly and easily export all this information using the web interface. Instructions Login to your VMWare Web Client and then click into Hosts and Clusters: Then click on the VMs tab…
I’ve had a few Virtual Machines (VMs) which had thick provisioned disks instead of thin, as thick is the default this is quite easy to do. If you have the paid version of vSphere and two or more hosts managed by vCenter you can simply do a storage vMotion and change the destination disk to…
VMware vSphere HA (High Availability) is a feature that provides automated failover capabilities for virtual machines running on VMware vSphere hosts. When a host failure occurs, HA will detect it and restart the affected virtual machines on another available host in the cluster. If you are experiencing a failover error with VMware vSphere HA, there…
When using VirtualBox you may at some point enter Scale or Full Screen Mode and then wonder how the hell you get out of it again and get your menu toolbar back! Well the solution is very simple but not very clear. In the settings you will notice that mentioned a lot is the Host+(something)…
Problem You have a requirement to change the DNS server IP addresses on a VMWare ESXi host. However, because Adobe Flash Player is no longer available and the option is not in the newer HTML5 version, you have to make the changes using an SSH connection to your VMWare host. Resolution Connect to your VMWare…
Serial number to activate VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7 License.
We recently had a problem with our Nutanix Prism system and we had to rebuild the Prism server from scratch. After carrying out the rebuild, we managed to fix all the initial problems that we had been having. However, a few weeks later, we needed to run a few updates across the Nutanix system and…
If you are using a Nutanix Hyperconvergence solution in your infrastructure environment, then you may have come across a problem where the Nutanix CVM gets stuck in Maintenance Mode. Fixing this issue is very simple, but you will need the following information before starting the fix: Prerequisites PuTTy or other SSH client Nutanix Cluster administrator…
If you have setup VMWare ESX you will find that it defaults to the evaluation version giving you 60 days of unlimited use. But, how do you apply your serial number? We have created a quick video below to help you with this easy process: Video Walkthrough – How to activate VMWare ESXi Serial When…
If you have a server which has been used for EMC RecoverPoint then you may find that you require a password to get into the BIOS. The standard default for this is as below: Note that it is case sensitive. Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like…
We have recently come across a problem with a VMWare vCenter Appliance where it was stuck in a repetitive boot loop and fsck failed error message. After some investigation we found that all that was needed to fix this issue was to run the following command: It will then check for errors and fix them,…
If you have set up VMWare ESX you will find that it defaults to the evaluation version giving you 60 days of unlimited use. But, how do you apply your serial number? We have created a quick video below to help you with this easy process: Video Walkthrough – How to activate VMWare ESXi Serial…
We have been trying to set up a new virtual host using VMWare ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 with an Atheros AR8161 network card. As this is one of the unsupported network cards, it kept failing upon the bootup setup process – as expected of course. As most of you will know, you can “inject” network…
