Upgrade Virtual Hardware
This evening I have been upgrading the virtual hardware on some VMs. They are running on ESX 5.1 so are currently at version 7: Upgrading the virtual hardware is a simple process that involves only a few clicks, but the…
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…
Upgrade ESXi 5.0 to 5.1
My home ESXi host is currently running version 5.0 but I want to create a Windows 2012 VM and this isn’t support by version 5.0. So, it’s time to upgrade to 5.1. I’ve downloaded the ISO for 5.1 and burned…
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…
Choppy display when using remote console
I’ve noticed that while using the VMware console to administer Windows 2008 servers remotely (as opposed to using Remote Desktop) the display has been slow and choppy, almost unusable when accessing servers across slow WAN links. It turns out this…