Contents
vSphere
General
- Changes in Configuration Maximums from vSphere 4.0 to 4.1
- My VMware VCAP-DCA Exam Experience
Hardware
- Recommended BIOS Settings on HP ProLiant DL580 G7 for VMware vSphere
- Update Emulex HBA Firmware on VMware ESX
Ultimate vSphere Lab
- Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 1: The Story
- Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 2: The Hardware
vMA
- Change the Keyboard Layout of VMware Management Assistant (vMA)
PowerCLI
- Add license to a vSphere host
- Check HP Management Agents with PowerCLI
- Convert PortWorldWideName or NodeWorldWideName to hexadecimal format
- Create an ‘Internal’ vSwitch with PowerCLI
- Enable RSS in Guest OS with PowerCLI
- Find VMs with Mismatched OS using PowerCLI
- Get all VMs with Fixed MAC Addresses using PowerCLI
- Get the FQDN of your host with PowerShell
- Get the trend of VM CPU Usage over a 1 year period
- How many Powered On VMs are running on my host + Speed up your PowerCLI cmdlets!
- How to check if PowerCLI libraries are loaded in PowerShell/PowerGUI
- How to use Try – Catch in PowerCLI the easy way
- List HA Runtime States with PowerCLI
- Supressing VMware VIX Warnings when running Invoke-VMScript cmdlets
Virtual Machines
- Hot Add Memory on vSphere 4.1. Is it useful?
- Hot Remove a hard disk from a Virtual Machine on vSphere 4.1
- Shutdown Guest does not work on Citrix Servers with an M: drive
- Unable to clone disk *.vmdk when converting a VM with Paravirtual disk with VMware Converter
Network
- Enable RSS (Receive Side Scaling) on Windows 2008 (R2) Virtual Machines
Storage
- Use Windows 2008 R2 as an NFS Server for vSphere
Virtual Infrastructure
General
Networking
Troubleshooting
- Enable Serial-Line Logging on ESX 3.5 through HP iLO
- Gather information from a PSOD on ESX 3.5
- Set verbose logging on Emulex Driver in ESX 3.5
PowerShell
Various
- Get NumLock working in PuTTY
Microsoft Exchange
- Load Balance your Exchange Mailbox Databases over one or multiple servers
thanks for the info it very nice. I have a question: i never try but will try to see how it go. according to your setup I wonder on the real world windows template remove the update foler and shrink the disk down it will work….
If you do this in the real world then it’s indeed best to clean up the Base VM/Template as much as possible. But always make sure that you are running a supported VM (if you delete a bunch of system protected folders, it might work perfectly for your VM, but if you ever need Microsoft Support Services they will probably not like it that you messed around in the system folders)…