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Recovery of an Accidentally Deleted Datastore.

Jul 20, 2015 · 1 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware ·

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A VMware administrator has been tidying up an old ESX host prior to decommissioning and has accidentally clicked Delete on a shared datastore rather than Unmount.

Using PowerCLI to measure VM disk space usage.

May 5, 2015 · 2 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware · powercli ·

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I had a recent need to calculate how much disk space was being taken up by all the VMs in my vSphere environment for capacity planning purposes.

Migrate VM to a new datastore

Jan 9, 2015 · 2 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware · powercli · powershell ·

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In an ESXi environment with no Storage vMotion I had the need to move a production VM from one datastore to another.

Standalone ESX Resource Group Permissions

Nov 12, 2014 · 2 min read · esxi · vmware ·

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I have recently had the need to setup a standalone ESXi 5 server (no vCenter) with several resource groups for a lab session.

Customisation of Server 2012R2 in VMware ESX 5 VM fails

Sep 25, 2014 · 1 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware · windows ·

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In VMware ESX 5.0.U2 when deploying a Server 2012R2 VM from a template with customisations applied the following error message appears:

License error connecting ESXi server to vCenter

Jun 15, 2010 · 1 min read · esxi · vcenter · vmware ·

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Yesterday I was connecting up an ESXi Virtual Host which has been running in standalone mode for a while to vCenter. The host has recently been upgraded to a VSphere 4 Essentials Plus License. When trying to setup the connection so the host could be managed by the vCenter server I received the following error message: …