Managing the license on VMware ESxi and VCenter is one of main job for system administrator.After the installation of the product, you may need to add the new license to increase the capacity and you may need to remove the old license keys from the those products. Sometimes you may need to pull out the existing […]
Unable to Power off Virtual Machine on ESXi 5.5 host
In some rare scenarios where you can’t even power off the virtual machine on VMware ESXi. This happens if the virtual host lost the I/O path or some issues related to I/O subsystems.In this situation,when you tried to power off the virtual machine,you will get error messages like “The operation can’t be allowed at the […]
Configuring VMware ESXi virtual machine console – VNC ?
In VMware ESXi 5.5 ,you can use VNC client to connect virtual hardware console for Solaris,Linux and windows guest operating systems by enabling VNC server. So that you can take the virtual machine consoles using any VNC viewer and no need to login to VSphere Client for any guest OS consoles .This is really good […]
How to Upload files to ESXI DataStore using Web-Client?
To recover the virtual machines on VMware ESXi , you need the installation DVD copy of it.Not all the time you can relay on the VMware snapshot to recover the guest OS and that is not a good practice. If you have the copy of installation DVD , you can recover those virtual machines from […]
How to Add ISCSI storage to VMware ESXi 5.5 ?
Here we will see how to add the ISCSI storage to the Vmware ESXi 5.5 hosts using VSphere web-client.As you know ISCSI storage is very cheap and many companies are preferred to deploy ISCSI storage for low and mid range servers. ISCSI can’t match the performance with FC SAN but cost wise its very affordable. […]