VMware Tools Installation
Just some random documentation I had laying around on the VMware Tools Installation on a Windows Machine. VMware tools allow for a smoother user experience. Tools consist of…
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Enabling NTP on ESX Servers
Time Notes Time drift within Virtual machines is very common. Time is calculated within Operating Systems based on the assumption that it has 100% access to the CPU0…
Microsoft Operating System Licensing under VMware
For those you with Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 licenses and some sort of virtualization (Xenserver or VMware), you might want to double-check to make sure you are not…
Patching an ESX server with Update Manager
Update Manager VMware Update Manager automates patch and update management for VMware ESX Server hosts and virtual machines. Update Manager addresses one of the most significant pain points…
VMware Distributed Power Management
Enabling DPM on VMware 3.5 / Virtualcenter 2.5 DPM or Distributed Power Management is an experimental feature that in conjunction with DRS [Distributed Resource Scheduling], will migrate machines…
Remotely Granting Shell access to Root
Grant Shell access to Root By default, ROOT no longer has the ability to SSH into the ESX server. This can be re-enabled for ease of administration. If…
V2P Part II
Fixing a BSOD after an V2P using BartPE <p>If you have just V2P'd a server from Virtual to Physical and the server is now experiencing a Blue Screen…
Using Acronis to take an image of a Virtual Machine [V2P Part 1]
Here are some straight forward instructions on how to take an Acronis image of a Virtual Machine. This is part 1 of a P2V [Physical to Virtual] migration…
ESX Home Lab on the Cheap!
After running my lab on 2 Dell Poweredge 1500 SCs (the Electric Company's Best friend!), I decided to switch to the HP Compaq D530 Desktop machines. Amazingly, these…