RVTools is one of the promising reporting tools for VMware vSphere since 2008. It’s a windows based tool which requires .NET 4.6.1 framework to pull the virtual environments information using VI SDK. It supports all the version of the vSphere environment. It can directly connect with vCenter or ESXi (If standalone) to get all the […]
VMWARE ESXi 5
How to recover VMware ESXi root password ?
We should not lose the superuser account on any operating system especially on VMware ESXi.There may be a chance of loosing root password due to system administrator careless or defective keyboard. If you forgot root password of ESXi host ,then there is no way to recover it .VMware does not provide utility or methods to recover […]
Heartbleed vulnerability on VMware ESXI 5.5 and Vcenter 5.5
Openssl is an opensource software which is widely used for implementing the transport layer security like SSL and TSL. Openssl provides a cryptographic functions and lot of other functions. Almost two years ago ,there is new function injected to openssl version 1.0.1 which is called heartbeat. What the heartbeat protocol does on openssl ? Heartbeat keep […]
How to Configure DRS cluster on ESXi ?
Configuring the DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) cluster is simple task in VMware if you have already worked on legacy clusters like veritas cluster.In a order to obtain the cluster-level resource management ,you need to create the DRS cluster. DRS cluster is nothing but a bunch of ESX/ESXi Psychical servers.Once you have added the ESXi or ESX […]
How to Create Datastore using ISCSI LUNS on VMware?
Once you have configured the ISCSI storage on VMware ESXi, you can start creating new datastore using those ISCSI LUNS. By default ,the wizard will try to create filesystem type as VMFS5 and this filesystem can be able to support up to 2TB LUNS. If you want that datastore to be accessed across VMware ESX/ESXi […]
How to get VMware ESXi and VCenter License keys ?
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. […]