Category Archives: VMware

VMware 7.0 on Intel NUC with vusb0 – not yet fully working… :(

Posted on 2020 May 11 @ 03:05:38 by admin

I wanted to see if I could install vmware 7.0 on my Intel NUC with unsupported onboard network nic, hence I will try vusb0. Conclusion: Buggy. VMware runs, but creating a virtual machine is problematic.   02-10-2020 Edit: VMware 7.0 … Continue reading →

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VMware resize VMFS partition and datastore

Posted on 2020 February 26 @ 01:02:14 by admin

Resize VMFS Partition ESXi Also see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2002461 Get Datastore: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/ VMFS-6.82 (Raw Major Version: 24) file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): DATASTORE Mode: public Capacity 1920118816768 (1831168 file blocks * 1048576), 813595361280 (775905 blocks) … Continue reading →

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What I noticed about VMware 6.7 and hpssacli vs ssacli

Posted on 2020 February 06 @ 04:02:20 by admin

The HP tooling for use with HP Raid controllers on the ESX cli was called hpssacli. It resided somewhere in in /opt/hp… It is now /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli Hope this helps you 🙂

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VMware 5.5, HP P2000, Datastores, iSCSI, ATS, VAAI and whatnot

Posted on 2016 June 08 @ 03:06:20 by admin

Brilliant, the customer got a freshly installed Gen9 HP host with 112Gb mem. My collegue installed it with VMware and seems to work fine. But not for the datastores it is supposed to work with. I  wanted to add the … Continue reading →

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VMWare virtualise a Windows 2008R2 server with P2V

Posted on 2016 April 28 @ 03:04:56 by admin

I am being in the process of virtualising a Windows 2008 R2 server with P2V. That is, from HP hardware to VMWare. Since this is a hardware HP machine, I have made the following considerations using P2V. Before virtualising: – Make sure … Continue reading →

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Windows, VMware virtualisation & networking hardware

Posted on 2014 February 04 @ 12:02:28 by admin

When you’ve just virtualised a hardware server to a VMWare environment, and you have trouble getting networking to function again, try the following: … This post has been moved to this page

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