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Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI
VMware doesn’t seem to provide a very good way to get the version of your VMware tools currently installed on your server. However, you can [ continue reading... ]
Category: VMware
Finding out if a VMDK is zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick
In some cases while working in your VMware environment it’s very important to know what type of virtual disk you’re working with. A few of [ continue reading... ]
Forcing a virtual machine to power off in VMware Fusion
Are you using VMware Fusion, and have one of the following symptoms: A virtual machine is not responding during the shut down process You cannot [ continue reading... ]
VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR
VMware recently sent out the following vCenter security announcement: 1. Summary Updated Java JRE packages address several security issues. 2. Relevant releases Virtual Center 2.5 [ continue reading... ]
VMware ESXi Removing the Landing Welcome Page
Recently in the VMware Communities lamw posted a good tutorial on one of the methods available to remove the VMware ESXi Landing Welcome Page. You [ continue reading... ]
VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors
Today at work we ran into quite a crappy issue, which thankfully I read about a few days ago. We started having some guests that [ continue reading... ]
VMware ESXi: Host in HA Cluster must have userworld swap enabled
So today I installed the first of many VMware ESXi boxes that I had shipped in. These boxes are diskless running on ESXi via USB [ continue reading... ]
Allow VMWare Server to load after reboot without having to rerun vmware-config.pl
After installing VMWare server 2.x onto OpenSuse servers/workstations, it was necessary to run vmware-config.pl after every reboot to get VMWare to load correctly, and behave [ continue reading... ]
ESX 3.5u2 Upgrade doesn’t show Health Statistics for all Hosts in VC
So, you upgrade your Virtual Center to 3.5 u2 and then upgrade your 3.5u1 hosts using the upgrade tarball. You reboot the host, check it [ continue reading... ]
Major VMware ESX 3.5/3.5i Update 2 Bug Discovered
Have you upgraded to VMware ESX 3.5 already? If so be sure not to power off ANY of the virtual machines on there. A new [ continue reading... ]
Installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.0
So the time has come. OpenSUSE is now in release canidate cycle, and VMWare has released VMWare Workstation 6.0.4 which will work on openSUSE 11.0 [ continue reading... ]
My VMWare VCP 3.0 Notes
Many people have contacted me asking for some notes on the ESX 3.0 VCP Test. I know the test is no longer a VCP 3.0 [ continue reading... ]
Installing Patches on your ESX Server
VMWare releases patches for ESX quite often, and it can get tiring installing them all the time one by one. So I wrote a wiki [ continue reading... ]
Installing VMWare Workstation on openSUSE 10.3
Well, since I have been getting tons of hits on this page, I figured i’d blog it and let people know that it actually exists. [ continue reading... ]
Virtual Center Client for Linux Native
So, I was talking with a VMWare Personell today and they leaked that the next major release of VC (possibly 3.0?) will have a full [ continue reading... ]
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