ESXi 5.1 host accepts no network connections

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:…

Direct shortcut for opening a console to VMWare ESXi 4.x virtual machine

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.…

VMware Server - How to install vmware server 2.0.x on 2.6.34 Kernels

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…

How to install vmware server 2.0.x on 2.6.30 Kernels

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…

VMWare Disk Shrinking

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…