Healthcheck is a PowerShell script that reports information like snapshots, VMware tools version, datastore space, CDROM and/or floppy drives connected etc. to HTML and e-mail the output to a person or distribution list. Reason for creating this script: As VMware Consultant I see a lot of common …
Continue ReadingVMware has released version 1.0 of VMware HealthAnalyzer. VMware HealthAnalyzer is an virtual appliance that collects and analyses the VMware configuration and analyses categorized by VMware Health check best practices. This tool can be uses by VMware consultants and VMware Authorized Consultant …
Continue ReadingIn VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) is introduced.. EVC makes it possible to VMotion between different CPU generations. Processors included in the new enhanced VMotion compatibility for AMD are: First-Generation AMD Opteron ™ Rev. E AMD Second-Generation AMD Opteron …
Continue ReadingYou got the following error when powering on a VM: Unable to Power On virtual machine with “A General System error occurred: Internal error” An issue has been uncovered with ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12. VMware is alerting customers …
Continue ReadingI see a lot of environments where the Virtual Machine (VM) disk space must be extended. Prior ESX 3.5 the way to extend a VDMK was to use the vmkfstools command with the -X parameter from the VMware ESX server console. With the coming of ESX 3.5 it is possible to extend the VMDK file when the VM was …
Continue ReadingThere is a hack to enable SSH for VMware ESX 3i. Here is the procedure to enable SSH – Boot ESXi and wait till the till"loaded – Press ALT-F1, you see the console screen – Type unsupported and press ENTER – Enter the root password – Enter the following command vi /etc/inetd.conf – Search for …
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