vCenter Converter unable to see disks on source
I'm working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1. I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through…
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VMWare ESX 4.1 Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 Checklist
I'm starting to plan for an upgrade of VMWare ESX 4.1 U1 to ESXi 5.0 and since ESXi 5.0 makes this possible to do an in place upgrade,…
Proxmox VE 3.2 Installation Screenshots
Installation of Proxmox VE 3.2 on an ESX 4.1 host. Note that KVM in Proxmox VE is not supported due to VT-x virtualization not being supported in ESX…
vCenter Converter fails to import machine at 1%
I got kicked in the face by this again, and I even had the resolution documented internally. Lost 45 minutes looking through logs before I finally search VMware…
View Multiple esxtop Outputs Side-by-Side
The Problem I often use esxtop to review realtime performance metrics of various aspects of my virtual infrastructure. One annoying thing is that I cannot view multiple ESX…
Setting the Congestion Threshold Value for Storage I/O Control
This is a great KB article from VMware worth reposting. I'm going to start analyzing storage I/O more today on all the arrays I have and LUNs. Article…
End of Availability of VMware ESX 4.x
Dear Valued Customer, VMware is announcing an End of Availability (“EoA”) date for VMware vSphere® ESX hypervisor 4.x and for VMware Management Assistant (“vMA”) versions 1…
Can't Bind Windows 2008 R2 VM to Interface for DHCP
UPDATE: I had originally thought I had resolved this by removing/re-adding the adapter. Turns out the issue reappeared this morning. After more researching, I found that it was…
A few notes on Guest Virtual Machine Memory Ballooning
Looking over some of my Windows 2008 R2 servers, I notice via Task Manager that their memory is 90%+ quite often. Using Sysinternal’s RAMMap tool, I can quickly…
Get VM Extra Configuration Details
Add-PSSnapin VMware.vimautomation.core Connect-VIServer -server 10.10.10.1 -user "user" -password "luser" (get-vm -name "ZEUS").extensiondata.config.extraconfig | sort key | format-table Example Output Key Value DynamicType DynamicProperty --- ----- ----------- --------------- ethernet0.pciSlotNumber…
Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding
I received the following error this morning on my vCenter server after a brief reboot for a few Windows updates: Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding…
Set Ambient Temperature Alarm VMware ESX Host
I had some temperature spikes in the data center recently that caused havoc and for some reason I never received notifications. I guess this isn't configured to email…
vSphere Client: Disable Getting Started Tabs
In vSphere Client 4.1, it is documented that to disable the Getting Started tab of VMs, you go to Edit -> Client Settings and untick Show Getting Started…
Migrating to vNetwork Distributed Switch
Came across a great step-by-step article on migrating from standard vSwitch to vNetwork Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 4.1.x. Zod Chen did a great write-up on his site…
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start
VMware VirtualCenter Service will not start. The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error The system cannot find the file specified.. I found that this is because…