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Due to losing an iScsi NAS Lun. there was 1 guest VM on this LUN. For whatever reason vCenter became unresponsive until services were restarted. still took 20min to start…

While trying to assign a VmWare kit license replacing an evaluation license, the following error displays saying vMotion is enabled. it’s not obvious how to resolve this In each host,…

VmWare iScsi storage shows as degraded if there is only 1 path to the storage it will show as degraded. add another path to fix this error.

Installing vSphere from the 8.0.2 image doesn’t work. use the 8.0.1 image and upgrade afterward Installing vSphere from the 8.0.0 image has an expired root password (sigh) and needs to…

Expanding the disk in Vmware is the easy part. Shut down the VM, edit it’s disk and increase the allocated space. Windows still doesn’t add the space to it’s OS…

VmWare has stopped providing their standalone P2V converter because of a security bug, which leaves us serfs fumbling for an alternative. Tried winimage and it gave an error A Cove/NAble…

If a VM won’t autostart even when it is set to do so, the first item to try is to unregister and re-register the VM. Record where the VMX file…

Step1:download patch, Ignore patches < 1 month old, patches are cumulativehttps://customerconnect.vmware.com/patchESXi (not ESX), enter the major build and click searchbeside the patch name click View Detailssearch for “Image Profile Name”record…

Home Assistant is some powerful automation software that integrates with a lot of IoT devices. The .vmdk that is made available on their website is created using VmWare Workstation, which…

Host->Configure>Storage Adapter->ISCSI Adapters and in the lower under Details the “Paths” tab props to IRIX201110141 @VmWare for pointing this out