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Category: VMware

how to get the correct Virtual Disk for a VMware vm

8. March 2017 Burkard Josh

Some times I have the problem, I need to resize or delete a VMware virtual disk, but I only know…

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Posted in: General, VMware, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016

add domain groups to vSphere ESXi 5 with PowerCLI

28. June 2013 Burkard Josh

With PowerCLI, you can add AD authentication to a single managed ESXi Host. For this you need to add your…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: VMware

List VMTools Status with vCheck

25. February 2013 Burkard Josh

i like vCheck to daily report my virtual environment status. But a lot of our guest systems are not in…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: PowerShell, VMware

Installing HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 5.0

16. February 2012 Burkard Josh

The steps to install the offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.0 has changed from VMware ESXi 4.X. The vihostupdate command…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: ESXi, VMware

discover informations about all virtual machines to Excel

29. December 2011 Burkard Josh

I had the task to list all existing virtual machines in our vSphere vCenter to an Excel-List. Cause i have…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: PowerShell, VMware

Clone your Active Directory in 18 minutes using VMware

10. October 2011 Burkard Josh

Anyone out there who runs a successful Microsoft Windows Active Directory, knows that it is pre-eminently useful to have a…

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Posted in: Active Directory, VMware Filed under: Active Directory, VMware

Shutdown full VMware datacenter on UPS failure

11. July 2011 Burkard Josh

To shutdown a VMware datacenter on UPS failure i found a PowerShell script, which i modified: The script will shutdown…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: PowerShell, VMware

ESXi 4.x: change the blocksize for a partition

11. May 2011 Burkard Josh

The ESXi 4.x installer utilizes the default blocksize of 1MB when creating VMFS volumes, allowing for storage of files 256GB…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: ESXi, VMware

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