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Let’s have a look at the top 10 VMware Admin Tools in 2021 to use and improve your efficiency at work. VMware admins use a number of tools to help monitor, manage, and optimize their virtual environments. Pete Flecha says, “Recently I surveyed the VMware community to find the most popular tools and shared the … Read more
In this article, How you can force the virtual machine to entry into the BIOS setup screen in VMware vSphere. To do this, follow the below simple steps. VMware vSphere Console To make changes to the configuration file: Shutdown the virtual machine. Right Click the VM from web-client/ HTML client and select edit setting Select … Read more
In this blog we will see how you can resolve the alert on the vSphere console of “Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version”. Understanding VMFS Datastores To store virtual disks, ESXi uses datastores. The datastores are logical containers that hide specifics of physical storage from virtual … Read more
Today we will see the most important topic about the hotplug option in VMware vSphere. There are two types of hot plugs available. Enable Memory Hot Add Enable CPU Hot Add Enable Memory Hot Add Memory hot add lets you add memory resources for a virtual machine while that virtual machine is powered on. Enabling … Read more
To check the MAC address of a virtual machine in the vSphere web client follow the below steps: Right-click the virtual machine from the left pane of the vSphere client. Select Edit Settings from the menu. Under Virtual Hardware tab, Expand Network Adapter 1. Navigate to MAC Address section to see the MAC address of … Read more
Today we will see about the error message “The ramdisk ‘tmp’ is full. As a result, the file /tmp/bbJ7VowB.tmp could not be written.” in VMware ESXi. What is ESXi ramdisk? Ramdisk is a container inside the memory (RAM) for that working read/write copy. Using the branching technique, ESXi VMkernel uses the read/write copy instead of … Read more
We will check for the possible solutions on the alert of Degraded Storage Path Redundancy On The VMware ESXi Host. We know that there are different multi-pathing options are available when interacting with a storage device, there might be a situation where one or more than one of these paths might not be available for … Read more
We have seen the VMware ESXi host memory usage alarm in the vSphere console many times during the operations. Today we will discuss what course of action can be taken to remediate this issue. The ESXi host memory usage go to high when the hosted Virtual Machines utilize higher memory than usual may be during … Read more
In this blog post, we will provide steps for VMware downloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x). This is taken from the VMware KB article given here. Downloading vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 6.x & 7.x) To download and activate ESXi 6.x & 7.x: Navigate to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Download Center. From the Select … Read more
In this blogpost, we’ll see how you can shutdown forcefully an unresponsive or hung VMware virtual machine using esxcli command-line. In this case scenario, you will not able to shutdown or power off the virtual machine through the vSphere and inside the Guest OS. Let’s begin with the steps now. SSH into the host where … Read more