Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. […]
VMware Tools Offline VIB for ESXi Host – Bundle Download and Install
It’s been a few years now since VMware tools “split” and so it’s individual updates are available as a separate download. What we just found out is the fact that there is also a VIB package which you can download. As you know, VIB stands for VMware Installation Bundle. We have detailed How to install VIB […]
Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version
For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software solutions before choosing the one […]
VMware ESXi and ESXTOP “P” Key is New in vSphere 6.5 – Did you know?
By looking a tech marketing PDF for vSphere 6.5 from VMware tech marketing team entitled “What’s New in Performance” I noticed a new option which has been added to ESXTOP command. It’s a “P” key which allows you to monitor Power Management. It shows you a power information for the particular ESXi host. So this post […]
What to do when you have Duplicate MAC address within VMware vSphere Environment?
Sometimes you have an environment, which shows up with duplicate MAC addresses. You can see the alarms within in your vCenter server web client, and even worse, you won’t be able to power On a virtual machine (VM) which is in MAC address conflict with another VM. In this post, we will look at possible reasons […]
What is VMware vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer – VOMA
VMware vSphere and ESXi has a very solid storage system. You might be interested in a fact, that there is a tool, similar to Windows chkdsk, which can check and identify incidents on metadata corruption which might affect file systems or underlying logical volumes. During such situations, you might want to run VMware vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer […]
5 Ways to Change Hostname of your ESXi host
This post is a quick recap of different ways to change a hostname of an ESXi host. There are different ways we work and different tools we use. Not every time we have the chance to use the tools we want, or we have an access directly to the server room or to the console. This […]
What Is VMware ESXi Lockdown Mode?
In order to make your ESXi hosts more secure, you can put them what’s called Lockdown mode. This post will explain What is VMware ESXi Lockdown Mode, what’s the main benefits and the configuration steps. The config is a simple radio button via vSphere web client, but there is also a possibility to activate it […]
V2V Migration with VMware – 5 Top Tips
Almost everybody knows about P2V migrations. Physical to virtual conversion process. We have all done this at least once in the past. With P2V process you’re able to select a server within your physical infrastructure and convert it into a virtual machine with minimal effort (we all know that time is money). You should know that there […]
Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM
This is a quick tip to Increase Startup Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM. We will show you that it can be done different ways as we have multiple tools from VMware for managing their virtual infrastructure. A very easy tip everyone knows already, for this Friday. Check our Tips or How-to categories for other […]
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