Management services on physical hosts that are running VMware ESX can fail causing the following results: You cannot connect ESX/ESXi to VirtualCenter /vCenter Server You cannot connect directly to the ESX/ESXi host from the VMware Infrastructure Client / vSphere Client You cannot stop or start a virtual machine A virtual machine is shown as running… Read more »
How to Shrink a Thin VMDK on ESXi 5.x Offline
How to Shrink a Thin VMDK on ESXi 5.x Offline Over time virtual machine guests will grow in size if provisioned as a thin disk due to files being copied or log files being generated, once the files are unallocated (deleted or moved) the vmdk still reserves the location as used thus causing excessive white… Read more »
VMware ESXi 5.x Disable Shell Warning
Cluster warning for ESXi shell and SSH appear on ESXi 5.x host This is not something you should do unless you want to “hide” the error message when having the ESXi shell and SSH enabled for ESXi 5.x. I removed the error messages in my test environment as I know no one is going to… Read more »
