I had this question recently through an e-mail and was sure that I already wrote about it. After some research, I figured out that a blog post would clear my doubts. VMware says that it’s not possible to reset ESXi password on ESXi 6.x (and 5.x) systems. However, under certain circumstances, there is a possibility […]
Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 8.x
One of the annoyances of W8.x OS (there are others too) is the fact that pressing WIN (Windows) + R and then typing cmd gives you command prompt window, but without elevated privileges. This is quite annoying because even with being member of the local administrator group you get restricted on that – you need Elevated Command […]
Easily upgrade ESXi 5.x to the latest ESXi 6.0 via CLI
I have received quite a few demands for how to update standalone ESXi hosts via the command line. For most people it’s probably no brainer, but for new folks this might not be so obvious. So for those of you who are looking to update ESXi 5.x to the latest release which is the ESXi […]
How-to unlock the VMware VCSA root password?
Update: Check the latest post where I teach you How to reset root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, and, there is also a video in this post. VCSA has a default 90 days root password policy. You can change this behavior or you can manage the password policy through AD if VCSA is integrated with […]
ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI
One of the topics to master for VCAP-DCA exam (but not only) is to handle some CLI commands which enables NFS management. Those commands can list existing connected NFS storage, Add new storage or delete NAS file system. Those commands are also useful when you troubleshoot your NFS storage or when your NFS server has […]
ESXi 5.x – How-to enable SSH pre-login message banner
As a VMware admin you might be interested in this function. A message that could be used as a warning or informative purposes in your organization when someone tries to log into an ESXi host. When you SSH to ESXi host (in case the admin has enabled SSH) there is no message to the operator by […]
IIS and PHP Setup – The Easy Way On Windows Server 2012 With Web Platform Installer
There is many ways to do an IIS and PHP Setup on Windows machine. It was much more complicated before, as now with Microsoft Platform Installer things got much easier. I wanted to share my experience with that. But before we’ll start the few steps process, lets see which different possibilities exists to install a WAMP […]
VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere Host Profiles
VMware vSphere Host profiles is one of the very powerful features which can ease much pain of reconfiguring manually options after re-installing a host. vSphere host profiles can apply to individual hosts or to a whole cluster, which can be especially useful when you deal with the same or similar hardware inside this cluster. Host […]
VMware vSphere AutoDeploy – Install and configure
VMware vSphere Autodeploy is another cool feature which is not so cool when you want to implement, because it needs some knowledge to setup and takes some time to get all the pieces work together. Yes it might seems complex and if you’re just a SMB it might not be your interest but stateless images […]
VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder
VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder hasn’t been covered yet on my blog. I think it’s time. Once you understand how to put all the bits and pieces (Image builder, Host profiles and Autodeploy) together, than you can make your super homelab run even more “sexy” with autodeployed ESXi hosts – now even with VMware Tools for […]
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