Category: ESX/VMWare

So you’ve found yourself in a situation where you cant access a box with the VMWare C# client, restarting services doesnt fix the issue, and you need to

Need to mount an NFS share to all your hosts? Want to do it fast? PowerCLI is a great tool for automating, speeding up, and executing tasks on

So – a fun issue I’ve run into a ton of times: You browse to your vSphere instance to login and do some work, your greated by the

This sort of thing happens all the time – you have multiple people working on a single project or you inherit a prod environment and now you need

So you just swapped DNS on your host and want to make sure your resolving items correctly with your fancy new DNS servers.. Putty to your host Login

When thin provisioning disk in your VMware virtual environment you may occasionally run into an issue where a VM is soaking up more space than it appears it

So – a little preamble.  This process, sucks.  VMWare is being lazy with their method for installing 3rd party certificates.  The walk throughs they provide via KB articles

Need to find out the name of your PSC?  Do the following: (Steps for both appliance and windows) Putty or RDP to your server. Enable BASH or OPEN

Running out of room on your root VCSA (VMware Vcenter Appliance) VM?  Virtual center update’s failing?  One of the things I’ve noticed is – as your supplying the

So you getting tons of discarded packets on your windows VM hosted by VMWARE? I have run across this scenario in high load situations such as domain controllers

Find VM port number and switch name: net-stats -l Display packet info on a specific VM: vsish -e get /net/portsets/SwitchNameHere/ports/VmPortNumberHere/vmxnet3/rxSummary Packet health (Dropped, MTU, tx/rx, etc) vsish -e

To find the name of your PSC server, do the following: 1. Login to your vsphere server via web client 2. Click hosts and clusters 3. Select the

If you want to quickly join an ESX host to a Windows domain, you can use putty or plink and SSH to the host and run the following

Have a reason to eager zero your VMDK? Need to increase your initial write performance?  Here’s how to do it; Use SSH to putty directly to the host your VM

So your looking to eek out a bit more performance by thick provisioning your already thin provisioned disk.  Here’s how; Use SSH to putty directly to the host your