Dell R730 – Google Search
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] dell r730 – Google Search because I first wanted to run a Dell PowerEdge R730 16 Bay SFF, but ended up using the Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay SFF (plus an...
View ArticleNo more /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up, use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh in stead
Where in ESXi 6.x you could change /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up tightened security and now use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh [Wayback/Archive] virtualization – ESXi 7.X file permissions – how to buypass...
View ArticleIncreasing your web archiving impact: Guide to Setting Up Your 2nd (and more)...
With both the ever increasing amount of internet data, and ever increasing number of web sites pulling the plug, archiving them into the Internet Archive is ever more important. The thread at...
View Articlefreebsd – Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi – Unix & Linux...
It’s a tricky process, but I might need this in the future: [Wayback/Archive] freebsd – Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive]...
View ArticleThe death of ESXi finally confirmed by Broadcom
Quite a few people already bumped into this the last two days (will add those links later), so today’s confirmation by Broadcom – who have a similar modus operandi as companies like Computer Associates...
View ArticleESXi 8 licenses seem still available, if you might need it: register while...
This is where you can still register for a free ESXi 8 account (until Broadcom kills that): [Wayback/Archive] Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor for Free (free-esxi8) [Wayback/Archive] Download VMware...
View ArticleScript to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6
I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Script to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6: gist.github.com/Gremgoll/8bd91258d71fe895c0d416e2543ca2dc. Then I forked it with the intent to make usage more clear, as...
View ArticleWhile migrating VMs, I keep forgetting ESXi likes the text .vmdk file with a...
I keep forgetting this, but ESXi likes the text .vmdk file with a binary -flat.vmdk, where Fusion/ Workstation/Player like binary .vmdk file. Most sites that mention how to solve it love the cryptic...
View ArticleDatastore Naming Rules – VMware Technology Network VMTN
I was looking for VMware ESXi Datastore Naming Rules, and this was the only really relevant post I could find: [Wayback/Archive] Datastore Naming Rules – VMware Technology Network VMTN I’m trying to...
View ArticleVMware ESXi: shell script to get uuid.bios and all Ethernet generatedAddress...
This is a sort of follow-up on ESXi: listing virtual machines with their IP addresses where we ended with this: I modified the above script to become this: #!/bin/sh vmids=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |...
View ArticleVMware ESXI: creating an eagerly zeroed thick disk
For my memory to create a 40 GiB (gibibytes, i.e. sizes in powers of 2 bytes): # vmkfstools --createvirtualdisk 40G --diskformat eagerzeroedthick ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-EN-MEDIA-DATA.vmdk Creating disk...
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Converting an existing XP machine to a VMware ESXi Virtual Machine and...
A while ago I wrote about Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other). After this, the machine still had boot issues (a grey or black screen...
View Articlevirtualization – Convert a hard-drive into a VMWare machine – Server Fault
Sometimes machines die without one having had the chance of doing a proper bootable file-system backup instead of a file-by-file-backup. You can still P2V these machines (convert them from physical to...
View ArticleVMware ESXi: How to Kill an Unresponsive (Stuck) Virtual Machine | Windows OS...
For my link archive: [Wayback] VMware ESXi: How to Kill an Unresponsive (Stuck) Virtual Machine | Windows OS Hub Commands covered: esxcli vm process list esxcli vm process kill --type=[soft,hard,force]...
View ArticleESXi: various ways to find and view the log files
For my link archive: [Wayback] Viewing ESXi log files | 4sysops [Wayback] Via the ESXi console [Wayback] From the redirected log location [Wayback] Through the ESXi HTML 5 Host Client [Wayback] Via a...
View ArticleRun ESXi from a USB Flash Drive: A How-To-Guide
Guessing the [Wayback] Run ESXi from a USB Flash Drive: A How-To-Guide by just the abstract does not show the value enough: A USB flash drive can be used not only for installation media – you can also...
View ArticleWhen some virtual machines cannot run VMware Tools: Graceful shutdown of an...
An interesting set of scripts from [Wayback/Archive.is] No Joke IT: Graceful shutdown of an ESXi 5.1 host and guest VMs (free edition) using the shell/command line/scripting (UPS friendly). If all ESXi...
View Articlewindows xp – How to know which license version has an XP installed system –...
When virtualising your final physical Windows XP machines (just in case you need to hook up old hardware that is unsupported from newer Windows versions), you need to figure out the kind of license of...
View ArticleSome links on USB pass-through for ESXi
For my link archive (especially because when disconnecting USB devices, the path value needs to be uber-correct, while for connecting, the path value only needs to be a partial match): [Wayback]...
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Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine...
In 2015, I posted P2V of an existing XP machine to Hyper-V to have an emergency fallback when retiring old XP physical machines and did a short edit on 20210727 promising about a future article on...
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