VMWare ESXi 8.0 Hypervisor Serial Number Activation
Serial number to activate VMWare 6.7.
Tag: Virtualisation
VMWare vSphere HA Failover Error
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 […]
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VirtualBox – Exiting Scale or Full Screen Mode in Windows [2023 Updated]
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) […]
VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7 License Serial Number Activation
Serial number to activate VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7 License.
How to Fix a Nutanix CVM Stuck in Maintenance Mode
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 […]
Check for Thick Provisioned Disk Space in VMWare
If you want to run a check against your VMWare infrastructure for virtual machines that have thick provisioned disks, you can use VMWare PowerCLI to do this quickly and easily. Our step by step guide below will show you what you need to do to bring back the results that you need. Check for Thick […]
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
I have been using a physical computer for some time to run some automated programs that I use. However, that physical computer is now not in good shape and needs to be replaced. The problem is though, I have years of customised scripts, sequences and environment variables that I obviously do not want to lose and […]
VMWare ESX 6.0 Serial Number Activation
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 […]
VMWare ESX 6.7 Serial Number Activation
Serial number to activate VMWare 6.7.
VMWare ESX 6.5 Serial Number Activation
Serial number to activate VMWare 6.5.
How to create correct partitions to deploy a Windows image to a UEFI based device
We have recently come across an issue when trying to deploy a test virtual machine using Hyper-V (Generation 2 – UEFI) that once you have selected your task sequence, you get an error and the task sequence bombs out. This is because we had not setup the correct drive partitions to be able to deploy […]
vSphere Web Client – Export Virtual Machine Information
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 […]
EMC RecoverPoint BIOS Password
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 […]
VMWare ESX Serial Number Activation
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 […]
VMWare ESXi 5.5 – Adding RealTek and Atheros Network Card Drivers – Version 2.0
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 […]
