Installing an offline driver package using the vSphere CLI
I have purchased new Intel NICs for my ESX servers so that I can separate the networking for vMotion and Fault Tolerance. However, the drivers are not included in ESX so I need to install them. Once I’d located and…
Using ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
While trying to recover a virtual server that wouldn’t boot (NTLDR missing) I came across a wonderful tool called ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. It allowed me to mount a VMDK file on my Windows 7 workstation and access it like…
Creating a new Customisation Specification
As part of my job I tend to deploy a lot of images from templates and I always use a customisation specification to make it easier. Why? Because it can automatically configure network settings (such as IP address, gateway and…
How to clone a VM from another powered off VM in vSphere Client
1. Log into vSphere Client and ensure that you are in the VMs and Templates view 2. Locate the desired VM to clone. Right-click this VM and choose Clone 3. Enter a name for the new VM and choose an…
Cloning a VMware ESXi thick disk to a thin disk
Up until now I’ve been building all of my virtual servers with thick provisioned disks. In order to better utilise the available disk, I have decided use thin provisioned disks instead. This is easy enough for new servers but if, like me,…