Host is not in compliance with the attached profile
I have a host in a cluster that is reporting the following configuration issue: Host is not in compliance with the attached profile When clicking the link in the General section of the Summary page it provides the following detail:…
VMware Tools logging Event ID 1000 warnings after upgrade to 5.1
Some of our ESX clusters have recently been upgraded to 5.1, and since doing so we have seen the following error logged every second in the Application Event Log on the guest servers while a user is logged on: Source:…
Export a list of virtual machines to Excel or CSV
If, like me, you have a requirement to export a list of your VMs then this is rather easy to do in just a few steps: 1. Log in to vSphere Client 2. Highlight the desired data centre or host…
Creating a Resource Pool
A Resource Pool is a pool of CPU and memory resources. The resources are allocated based on the CPU and memory shares that are defined and creating one is optional. Why create a Resource Pool? Because it allows you…
Enable clipboard copy and paste using the remote console
As of vSphere 4.1 the copy and paste functionality in the remote console window have been disabled for security reasons. Until now, I didn’t know I could turn this feature back on. There are two ways of doing this: Option…