I’ve recently installed vCenter server appliance (VCSA) to manage my lab environment running vSphere 5.5. It’s faster than instaling a vCenter under Windows and it’s the future. I was wondering how to change the default password policies in vSphere 5.5? The Default vCenter SSO configuration password policy is set to expire passwords in 90 days with […]
How to share VMware Workstation VMs
VMware Workstation 10 allows sharing VMs on a network. It’s possible to allow (or not) users to access this shared VM or give them different set of privileges too. Useful if you deal with users which are for example students or and you don’t want them to break/delete the VM. Users of VMware Workstation might […]
Realtek 8169 NIC in ESXi 5.5 not detected by default – install a VIB
I was upgrading my White boxes this weekend. I had them populated with some Intel NICs (no problem with those) and some Realtek NICs. The unsupported Realtek NIC was not recognized after a clean install, but could be installed with community-supported drivers. Read on if you have the same problem and your Realtek 8169 NIC […]
Installing and upgrading to ESXi 5.5 – Best practices and tips
ESXi 5.1 standalone or ESXi 5.1 managed by vCenter can be upgraded to ESXi 5.5 after the last week’s GA release of vSphere 5.5. While for ESXi managed by vCenter, the upgrade process is quite straight forward by using VUM (VMware Update Manager). The VUM can also be used with Linux based (VCSA), where the […]
Disable hibernation on Windows 7 and Windows 8 based systems – standalone and GPO configs
You’ve wondered how to disable hibernation in Windows 7 (W8) and why? Hibernation function on W7 (vista, 8) uses hiberfil.sys hidden system file for fast wake up. When activated hiberfil.sys is created at the root filesystem. Unfortunately, this file is usually very large depending on how much your system has physical memory. Example of my […]
How to Remove Cached IP addresses and hostnames in vSphere client
If you’re IT consultant, IT guy working with VMware vSphere or just testing ESXi in your lab, after a certain time you’ll find that in your management workstation or laptop when launching the vSphere client (the Windows based) you start to accumulate the old connection settings. All those IPs and host/DNS names starts to make […]
How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows
Multiple RDP sessions are disabled on Windows servers. It means that if you are working on the server and at the same time another administrator connects, you get disconnected because the other admin takes over. How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows? There is a simple way to do it and I’ll show you […]
VMware Workstation 10 can also downgrade virtual hardware. Did you know?
The other day I was trying VMware Workstation 10. I can’t remember if previous release was able to downgrade the virtual hardware, but the release 10 of Workstation can. I was actually trying to upload a Windows 2012 R2 server VM which I installed by using Workstation. This is something that has been around since […]
Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband
When I first built my homelab few years ago I never thought that one day I’ll be using anything else than 1Gig NICs for storage network. I always thought that the FC or 10 gigs ethernet technology is out of range most of the individuals and a lot of the SMBs for years to come. […]
Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server
VMware Mirage uses SQL database which can either be installed on the same server as the Mirage server, or the DB can be deployed on external SQL server. This post will discuss the Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server. Depending of the scale of the deployment taking in account the limitations of the MSDE […]
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