Free E-book: How to setup nested VMware vSphere lab on a PC or laptop? Ever wanted to test the latest vSphere Suite without having enough hardware? Features like vMotion, Fault Tolerance, DRS (distributed ressource scheduler) or HA (High Availability) can be tested in nested environment by using VMware Workstation. Note that the latest vSphere 6 […]
How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make the change persistent after reboot
How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make it persistent after reboots. If you want to keep SSH to your ESXi hosts, but want to change the default SSH port (22) to non default port, there is a way to do it. For example you don’t wan to have SSH on 22 but […]
How to remove orphaned vCenter Plugin
How-to remove unwanted plugin from vCenter. If you got stuck with a plugin installed in vCenter and can’t uninstall, there is a quick tutorial on how to do this. Sometimes you got stuck when testing beta products or RC versions, and your vCenter shows those broken plugins. In this post you’ll learn How to remove […]
How-to disable ssh warning esxi 5
Disable ssh warning esxi 5 – how to disable this message. The other day when I updated my very old article on How to activate SSH on ESXi, I thought that I have posted already an article on the deactivation of the ssh for the host has been enabled warning message in vSphere 5. But I didn’t. […]
How-to Deploy Personalized Desktops in VMware View 5 – video
Here is a new free video from the New VMware View 5 training course released by Trainsignal. In this video, Brian Knudston will show you How to deploy personalized virtual desktops in VMware View 5. This new training has been released just last week and I already reported on that in this article here where […]
How-to register vSphere Web Client with vCenter – vSphere 5
Register vSphere Web Client with vCenter in VMware vSphere 5 You could already follow my vSphere 5 – Installing web client video post where you can see the fresh installation of the VMware vSphere Web client onto the same VM as vCenter. In the case you have installed the vSphere Web client onto another VM or physical […]
How to Install Android in VMware Workstation 8
VMware Workstation gives you the possibility to test multiple systems without installing a multiboot solution on your physical computer (server) and learn easily without breaking up your underlying system. But you still have the possibility to access to the files located on you physical machine through the VM. In my career I had many questions […]
VMware Converter Best Practices
Some best guidelines for VMware Converter 5 in order to avoid known issues. At first, VMware Converter 5 is a software which permits you to convert physical server (or PC) into Virtual Machine. This magical piece of this free software can at the same time align properly the destination VM’s virtual disks in order to get […]
VMware Data Recovery 2.0 – the upgrade process from earlier version
How to upgrade from VDR 1.2? The new VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (VDR) has been released together with the release of vSphere 5 – VMware vSphere 5 available for download – and since there is quite a few upgrades planned ahead, it might be handy to have it written/bookmarked on my website as well. The upgrade process […]
Start-up several VMs one after another – VMware Workstation Tip
Want to start-up several VMs one after another? Read on. The new version of VMware Workstation has dropped Teams functionality. By using the Teams, one could configure the delay, when each VM in that team started after the previous one. I posted about the teams functionality in my article here. But the feature of powering on […]
