Due to NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) deprecation on all the modern browsers , VMware need to find the alternate solution to use the vSphere Web-client for launching the VM console, upload & download the files from datastore and use of windows authentication on the browser(To use windows login in browser). According to the Google announcement, […]
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Unable to upload files using vSphere Web client
I have been scratching my head from yesterday to upload the ISO files to VMware vSphere ESXi datastore using vSphere web-client 5.x/6.x(it worked earlier and suddenly stopped working). The web-client shows that , we need to install “vSphere client integration plugin” to upload the files, launch VM console and deploy the OVA. But in Laptop […]
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 […]
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. […]