Vsphere compliance checker released
Today vmware relased the Vsphere compliance checker, as from the help of the tool “The Compliance Checker runs an assessment on ESX/ESXi hosts managed by vCenter. The assessment is based on a predefined subset of 26 of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide rules and is run against the first 5 ESX/ESXi hosts found on the … Read More →
Unable to take snapshot of a VM – File is larger than maximum size supported by datastore
You try to create a snapshot of a VM and run into the following error: “File<unspecified filename> is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore ‘<unspecified datastore>” Your configuration is one or all of the following: 1) Your vmx file is in a different datastore than the vmdk disks 2) Your datastore is set … Read More →
Using Symantec Backup Exec™ Management Plug-in for VMware®
Lately I’ve been involved in the as beta tester by Symantec for their “BackupExec 2010 plugin for vmware”. The idea behind this plugin is to provide end user the capability to monitor the status of their “protected” VM directly from the Vsphere console. The Backup Exec Management Plug-in for VMware lets administrators use the vSphere … Read More →
Power off a VM when it is stuck
Got a mail from a customer who just started to “play” with vmware and asked me the following question: How I may force a VM to powering off when is stuck at 95%? So my first consideration was: on VMware Esx or Esxi? So again since in the future everyone will have to use esxi … Read More →
