After trying VI, I was looking for something more easy, more “user-friendly“. Then I stumble through an article on Tom Howarth’s blog about Nano editor. Nano it’s already installed with your ESX server so you don’t have to download it again. This tiny little editor can help you edit configuration files in your ESX Server […]
How-to find orphaned Virtual disks in your ESX server environement
Update: There is an excellent freeware application available with many different other cool options to look at your virtual infrastructure including how-to find orphaned virtual disks. The RVTools freeware is cool and together with many free software tools which can be found on my Free tools page. How-to find orphaned Virtual disks in your ESX server environement […]
Little trick on converting your physical machines with VMware Converter
How to convert physical machines with VMware Converter Starter edition. Converting your virtual machines with VMware converter could be quite lenthy process. So if you want to to consolidate physical servers to virtual servers, the easiest way to do this is to perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion. With a P2V conversion, you can use either […]
Top 5 reasons to virtualize with VMware ESXi
Everyday I hear people to speak more and more about virtualization. This technology is becoming more and more popular and more and more IT andministrators are just going for it and virtualize their servers. So why should you virtualize your your servers? Why should you use VMware instead of Microsoft or Xen… Most of these […]
How to activate SSH for ESX Server
How to activate SSH for ESX Server. SSH is blocked by default for the root user, so if you want to access via SSH you must first enable it through the CLI. There is an updated post which shows How to activate SSH for ESXi host. The updated article shows the step by step process through the […]
Free Performance Monitoring tool for ESX Server – VM Monitor from Solarwinds
Monitoring Solution for your ESX Server – for free Solarwinds is well know company for their subnet calculator. Today I’d like to present your a free toll from Solarwinds called VM Monitor With this free software you are going to be able to do: Fast check the health of your VMware ESX Server by monitoring […]
Mounting VMDK disks directly to your windows box – how to
How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface with a little software called VMware Disk Mount Utility. This utility can be downloaded from VMware. I will show you how […]
How-to prevent downloading the VI client for your lan users
Prevent downloading the VMware Infrastructure Client via the Web Browser. You already know that you can download the VI client via your web browser, but you don’t know that you also can prevent to appear the link for downloading the client to your clients. Oh yes. Your cliens do not need to see the download […]
VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.
Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of space. What to do? You can add additional drive to have another storage space, but […]
How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5
How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power your virtual machine. When you power of your […]
