How do you do a silent installation of PowerCLI and the VUM snapin? VMware-PowerCLI-5.5.0-1671586.exe /s /qn /w /V”/qr /L*v PowerCLI.log ADDLOCAL=”vCloud”” VMware-UpdateManager-Pscli-5.5.0-1302474.exe /s /qn /w /V”/qr /L*v PowerCLI-VUM.log” Note: ensure […]
How many versions of VMware Virtual Infrastructure do you run? Yes you read correctly. 3.0 and 3.5. Rest assured these have just now been upgraded just in the last two […]
Had a problem with Firefox and attempting to access a virtual machine (VM) console within Lab Manager. Who uses Lab Manager I hear you ask? Yes well I do. For […]
VMware tools used be part of the ESX Classic. You could open a console to your VM and go through the menu and select Install VMware tools. This would mount […]
Whilst playing with Get-View today I could not work out what I needed as the ViewType for ESXi hosts. Since VirtualMachine is fairly self explanatory I figured it must be […]
They also show up in Control Panel (Windows 2003 / XP) -> Add Remove Programs: vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI VMware vSphere PowerCLI or the easiest way Downloads: VMware vSphere PowerCLI […]
Had this warning appear this morning when starting Powershell. My first thought was that I haven’t changed anything, in my profile at least. Since I have put in my powershell […]
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Whilst attempting to create a portion of a script to set up and test VMware’s DPM (Distributed Power Management) I found that I needed to find out which cluster the […]
How do I get the IP address that is displayed in the VI Client for a Virtual Machine? This is a question that I had today. Caveats: VMware tools must […]