How to Obtain Diagnostic Information for VMware ESXi 5.0 hosts using the vSphere Client
When you lodged a support request to VMware Technical Support, they routinely requests the diagnostic information from you. This diagnostic information contains product specific logs and configuration files from the…
How to Download VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI)
The vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI) command set allows you to run common system administration commands against ESX/ESXi systems from any machine with network access to those systems. vSphere CLI…
How to Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
It is recommended to install VMware Tools in the guest operating system. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important functionality, convenience and performance improvement….
How to Take, Revert and Delete the VMware Snapshots
In this post, i will share with you the YouTube video that guides you through on how to take, revert, delete the VMware Snapshots and also the available process while…
How to Fix VMware Tools Installation Error
Symptom 1 : Missing Compiler Program Setup is unable to find the “gcc” program on your machine. Please make sure it is installed. Do you want to specify the location…
How to Fix “Failed to Install VMware Tools” Error
Question : I am trying to install VMware tools on CentOS and RHEL but failed and return below error: Searching for a valid kernel header path… The path “” is…
How to Enable ssh Access for a Privileged User in VMware ESXi 4.1
On the previous post, i have teach you on how to create the additional user on VMware ESXi 4.1 host. That new user will successfully connect to ESXi host using…
How to Resolve Number of Virtual Devices Exceeds the Maximum for a Given Controller
I believed most of system administrator and vmware administrator experiencing these issues when cloning a virtual machine on ESXi vCenter server. Symptoms Cloning process fails at approximately 90% with error…
How to Remove an VMware ESX/ESXi Host From vCenter Server
I will guide you the simple steps on how to remove esx/esxi host from vcenter server. This guide assume that you already have the vCenter server to manage esx/esxi hosts….
How to Add ESX/ESXi Host Into vCenter Server
There are the simple steps to add new host into existing vCenter server. Follow these steps to proceed: 1. Login to vCenter server 2. Right click TestDataCenter 3. Then click…
How to Convert Provisioning Thin to Thick VMware Disk
There are two different types of disk provisioning which are thick (or preallocated) and thin (or dynamically). Both of these related with disk size. Thick (or preallocated) While we creating…
How to Create Additional User on VMware ESXi 4.1 Host
There is easy way to create the additional user on VMware ESXi 4.1 host. This steps also can be apply on ESX 4.0 or ESXi 4.0 or ESX 4.1 host….