VMware: How to check HBA firmware version without rebooting ESX host
I need to find out witch firmware version is running on my HBA without rebooting the ESX host.. I thought...
ESX 4.1
VMware: vStorage API – VAAI check status
To determine if VAAI is enabled service console in ESX or the RCLI in ESXi, run the commands and ensure...
VMware: VMware ESX 4.1, Patch Release ESX410-201010001
VMware released the first patches for ESX en ESXi 4.1, more information: ESX: ESX410-201010401-SG Security - KB 1027013 ESX410-201010402-SG Security ...
VMware: Windows 2008 disks are offline after upgrading hardware 4 to 7
Today I did some maintenance in the datacenter. I upgraded last month to vCenter 4.1 and the ESX hosts from...
VMware: Change MAC address in .VMX with “Virtual Mac Tool”
After installing a new VMXNET3 network card my HP MAC based license server didn’t function anymore. To change the MAC...
VMware: vSphere 4.0 “Hardware monitoring service not responding, the host is not powered on”
After receiving some emails from vCenter that my heartbeat is incorrect I decided to troubleshooting this issue, but after some...
VMware: ESX 4.1 Active Directory Integration
Since vSphere 4.1 there’s a possibility to connect your ESX server into Microsoft Active Directory, how do you configure this:...
VMware: How to revert root user role from "Read-only" to "Administrator"
Today on the Dutch VMug forum somebody got some trouble to connect a ESX host after changing the “root” permissions...
VMware: Warning: /vmfs/devices/char/wmkdriver/usbpasstrough not found
After installing VMware ESX 4.1 with a connected USB (for USB passtrough in one of my VM’s) disk in my...