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Degraded iScsi Storage

27th July 2024

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.

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Errors Installing vSphere 8

30th January 2024

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…

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Expand a disk in VMware

19th July 2022

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…

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P2V without VmWare?

8th July 2022

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…

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VmWare VM won’t autostart

21st June 2022

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…

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Update Stand-alone VmWare ESXi

12th April 2022

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…

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Home Assistant on ESXi

1st March 2022

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…

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VmWare How to find DataStore IP addresses

24th January 2022

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

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VmWare housekeeping

8th November 2021

VmWare should have some yearly maintenance where old .log files are cleaned up. I’m told these are just performance data and records of past operations. Use the datastore browser and…

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VmWare ESXi Free Edition Licensing

13th October 2021

The List of Limitations for Free VMware ESXi Now let’s have a closer look at restrictions when using an ESXi server version 6.7 with a free license. Depending on your…

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