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Watch out with Hardware Version 10 in VMware ESXi 5.5!

Ivo Beerens
Date : October 1, 2013
Categories : esxi ,VMware
Tags : esxi-2 ,vm ,VMware

Update: 09-09-2014: Today VMware released a new vSphere Client (vSphere Windows client). With vSphere Client 5.5.0 Build 1993072 (available with ESXi 5.5 Update 2) it is possible to edit hardware version 10 VMs settings. When editing a hardware version 10 VM it is only possible to edit hardware …

How-to extend the VMDK and the Windows disk

Ivo Beerens
Date : August 8, 2008
Categories : VMware VM Troubleshooting
Tags : VMware ,VM ,Troubleshooting

I 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 …