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ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring

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Deleting a snapshot can sometimes go wrong. Through vSphere client you can’t see any progress and it’s impossible to visualize the status of snapshot deletion. Today’s post, ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring, will show some ESXi CLI commands which should help. Snapshots are something which has been around since the beginning of virtualization. While […]

How to stop Windows 10 Upgrade to be downloaded automatically on your computer

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If you’re on Windows 7/8 computer and don’t want in any way to upgrade to Windows 10, know that you can prevent the notifications pushed by Microsoft. Recently I had a client that asked me to do that so I thought that I share. Windows 10 brought many changes compared to W7/8 and some users […]

How-to Assign a Public IP Which Persist Across Reboots for Ravello VMs

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This is another How-to post to get you started on Ravello. Today we’ll learn How-to Assign a Public IP Which Persist Across Reboots for Ravello VMs. It may be, after all, a good idea to access your VMs after creating them, no? For those of you who don’t know Ravello, just quickly recap what Ravello […]

How-to Install VMware Tools on VM which runs in Ravello Cloud?

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Yes, even a VM which runs on Ravello systems needs VMware tools to be installed in order to get the best possible performance. So if you create a Simple VM on Ravello cloud you have to install a VMware tools inside of that VM. How-to Install VMware Tools on VM which runs in Ravello Cloud […]

How-to Create Autodeploy ISO for Automated ESXi Installations

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Most of you usually know how to install VMware ESXi interactively via ISO or via Autodeploy. In this post, we’ll check out another possibility where we’ll learn How to Create Autodeploy ISO for unattended ESXi Installations. You’ll need some tools which can edit ISO images. One of them is Winiso, but there are plenty of others. The configuration […]

Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0 – Follow Up

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This post is a follow-up guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me onTwitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. Here is is experience: Part […]

vRealize Automation 7 Simple install

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It’s been some time that vRealize Automation 7 has been released and I reported about that in my post, but still haven’t had the chance to test it in the lab. That’s why today’s post. vRealize Automation 7 Simple Install is for today. Know that another type of installation is Enterprise install which is destined […]

vSphere Web Client integration plug-in fails

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The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This might however be a problem in situations when the OVF file has properties which are visible only through Web client as the “old” vSphere […]

How To Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter

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This is a usual situation. You connect to vCenter with self-signed certificate installed and you get this warning on your web browser, that the security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. It’s normal as the certificate isn’t really trusted by nobody, but you. And it’s you who gets […]