Just a simple script to back up ESXi configs to a file on a remote Windows Server:
Set ESXiPassword=[put your password here]
perl “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin\vicfg-cfgbackup.pl” –server [hostname of server] –username root –password %ESXiPassword% -s [path to .cfg file for backup]
Yes, it’s simple for a single server, but you can enter all of your servers in one [...]
I learned the hard way that even if you can install a 64-bit OS on a computer, it doesn’t not necessarily mean that you can run guests in ESXi in 64-bit.
Essentially on an Intel Platform, it has to support EMT64 and VT(and the motherboard has to support it). For AMD, you need Rev D AMD64 [...]
Setup is easy, initial config is pretty straight forward even without Core configurator(shame Guy had to take it down) , adding roles not much to it. Here is the Technet artical that got me off the ground. The remote management MMC snap-ins work actually well for VDS management and Firewall rule sets. But the iSCSIcli commands stumped [...]
Without SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure, which is released now, it is somewhat more difficult to do NetApp snapshots. But if you are in a position where you must be creative about this, I’ve written a script to do so. i’m sure that if you have the capital get SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure it will be [...]
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Maybe I just took for granted that ESXi 3.5 wouldn’t work at all with IDE disks. So much so, I went out and bought a 250GB SATA disk just for the expressed purpose of hosting my VMs on ESXi at home.
Apparently I was wrong. This weekend I moved my VM Host from one computer to another, [...]
If using vmkfstool to convert your VMWare Server’s vmdk file to an ESX or ESXi file is not as convenient as it could be, you’ve got an alternative you can run inside of windows to do the same thing.
In VMWare Server 2.0 (RC or beta at this point), there’s a nice command line tool to [...]
