How to install EMC Naviagent CLI on VMware ESX 3.5

To install the NaviAgents on an ESX host: Log in to the ESX host as root (Use Putty to SSH using a secondary account that has SSH permissions, then "su" to switch user to root) Run the following command to determine if there is any existing...

Thursday, 11 March 2010 | 1433 hits | Read more

How to resize a virtual machines system partition (Windows)

VM01 - the virtual machine that requires disk resize VM02 - a second virtual machine with same O/S to assist with resize   Turn off the virtual machine (VM01) Attach the disk of this virtual machine (VM01) to another virtual...

Thursday, 11 March 2010 | 476 hits | Read more

VMware Error connecting: Cannot connect to host

After copying a virtual machine from one of our VMware clusters across the WAN into another cluster, we discovered that we could not start the virtual machine. Instead, we received the following message:   "Error connecting: Cannot connect to...

Monday, 13 September 2010 | 333 hits | Read more

VMware virtual machine displays as Orphaned

Right-click the virtual machine and select "Remove from Inventory" Use putty to SSH to an ESX server and register the VMX file using the following command: vmware-cmd -s register Check vCenter to ensure the virtual...

Tuesday, 21 September 2010 | 355 hits | Read more