NOTE: Check the name of your datastore and replace “datastore1” in these
instructions with the appropriate name of your actual datastore.This process
will get your Supermicro 1u w/ x7dca-l and 2 Xeon L5420’s running ESXi 5.1 with
functional NICs, using a USB key:1) Download this file:…
Got finally sick of opening the vSphere client every time I needed access to a
virtual machine running on my ESXi 4.1 server. Did some googling and trying out
couple of options and finally found a way to do this.
> “C:\Program Files\VMWare\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure
Client\4.…
With the 2.6.34 Kernel series my machine complained when building the modules
for VMware server. Something to do with unable to find the autoconf.h file.
After a bit googling I found a few comments the lead me to try creating
symlinks. The new kernels put the header…
VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers
with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a
robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven
virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for
many years.
First you…
For Linux based Guest OSs:
>cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill
Shutdown the guest OS
From the host OS run
>vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk
For Windows based Guest OSs:
Before you can shrink a virtual disk, you must prepare each volume on the…