Category: VMware
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Commands to manually remove VMWare Fusion from my mac
This is documented somewhere, but I can never find the cut and paste commands. I am putting them here:
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Install OpenManage Server Administrator on ESXi5 via PowerCLI
Dell has changed how you install OpenManage Server Administrator on ESXi5. To do this via PowerCLI, use the following steps. Download the new vib file: OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-6.5.0-542907.VIB-ESX50i_A02.zip (most recent can be found here) Extract it and upload the folder via the vSphere client (browse datastore and upload the extracted folder) Put the ESXi5 box into maintenance mode.…
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VMware Fusion 4 – Did they move vmrun?
Did they move vmrun in VMware Fusion 4? In version 4, I find it here: “/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/” But this documentation says that the command should be in “/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion”, but I found it here”/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun” I don’t see anything in the release notes. Anyone?
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VMware ESX suspended machine won’t resume because of missing hardware
We recently had some downtime to physically move a rack for our server room expansion. One of the servers we were shutting down was a VMware ESX host. When I tried to resume the machine, I received an error saying “Module DevicePowerOn power on failed. Unable to open the SCSI device . . .” We…
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Install VMware ESX4.1 via PXE
We recently received 2 new servers that I needed to install the newest ESX on. I downloaded the IOSs, but I did not want to have to burn them. So I decided to try and install ESX via PXE. I did not have an answer file (kickstart), so I wanted to run an interactive install from PXE.…
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CentOS, NTPD, VMware and sleeping.
I have a MacPro at home, and I am running VMware Fusion on it. At night, I sleep the machine to save electricity. I have a CentOS guest running and the time is always out of sync. After the VM is restored from sleep, the NTP service is no longer running and my time really…
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VMware ESX and vmdks larger than 256gb
News to me! if you want to create a vmdk larger than 256 gb, you need to blow away the datastore and re-create it with a larger block size! Move everything off the datastore. Under the configuration tab, Right click and delete the store Click add storage and it will find the unused disk and when Creating…
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How to update ESXi 4.1 without vCenter
I wanted to update a standalone ESXi box from 4.1 to 4.1 Update 1. Here is how I went about it: Downloaded the update on a windwos box from here and unziped it Open the viClient datastore browser and upload the unzipped folder. If you put it off the root of your datastore, the path…
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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on ESX
This is how I installed Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on our VMware ESX 4.1 box tar -xzf OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.4.0-1266_A00.4.tar.gz cd linux/supportscripts/ ./srvadmin-install.sh -x esxcfg-firewall -o 1311,tcp,in,OpenManageRequest ./srvadmin-services.sh restart Mostly a reminder for me, but maybe a search engine will bring someone here, and it would be helpful.
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My PowerShell PowerCLI VMware guest provisioning script
This script will provision a 4GB Ram, 40 GB HD Server 2008 R2 VM, set the CD to an OSD iso, set the BootDelay to 5 seconds, and start the machine