VMware (ESX / vSphere)
Recently, I was having issues in upgrading the VM Tools on a Windows 2003 server.Installation was not getting completed successfully. Hence, I tried uninstalling and re-installing the VM Tools. Unfortunately,… Read more »
One of the virtual machine was not responding and was unable to power on the machine. When check on alarm, there was a message stating “Virtual Machine Consolidation Needed”. In… Read more »
Sometimes, snapshot takes huge time to get completed. We may then require to cancel the task to save time. However, we do not have any option to cancel the task… Read more »
Most often, when a case is raised with HP support team, we are asked to generate logs and send it to HP. Recently, I had an issue with an ESX… Read more »
There is no GUI option available to rename virtual disk in vmware. There was a request to add few RDM luns to a virtual machine and those disk to be… Read more »
Recently VMware announced the new certification track – VMware Certified Associate (VCA). The certification is available for multiple tracks: VCA-Cloud, VCA-WM and VCA-DCV. This certification fits in below the normal… Read more »
Recently, I was doing a hot P2V of Windows 2003 server from HP Hardware to a virtual machine. It was bad experience that the data transfer was slow of about… Read more »
Enabling SSH for the ESXi Shell By default, you cannot access the ESXi Shell using a Secure Shell client. You can enable SSH access from the direct console. To enable… Read more »
Please follow the below steps to migrate a virtual machine from one farm to another. 1. Cold vMotion to required Farm. 2. Change network label of network adapter. 3. Change… Read more »
If you are trying to create a VM with disk drive size larger than 256 you will get this error : File is larger than the maximum size supported by… Read more »