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VMadmin.co.uk is a site where you can find an ever increasing repository of information about VMwareMicrosoft, Citrix and Linux.

There are how to guides, general help, tips and info provided by a technology enthusiast (Andy Barnes), certified by VMware, Microsoft and Trend Micro. VMware has also presented me with the VMware vExpert Award in 2009 for my continued contribution to the VMware community.

 
vCenter Service Not Starting - Service Dependancies such as SQL Server

 

After rebooting the server running vCenter, you find you cannot log into vCenter with vSphere client. On further inspection you find the "VMware VirtualCenter Server" service is not running (even though it is set to automatic). However you can start it manually, it just will not start automatically after a reboot.

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vSphere PowerCLI Getting Started

vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 200 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere.

 
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Keyboard Shortcuts for vCenter 4

 

You may or may not have noticed while using vSphere client connected to vCenter there are keyboard shortcuts.

 

These can be very handy and are worth remembering ones that are useful to you. I will list all that I can find in vCenter here, as far as I know they are not listed anywhere by VMware.

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Upgrading vCenter Server from 2.5 to 4.0

VMware vSphere 4 has a number of great improvements and additional features.

Upgrading vCenter is the first step in getting your virtual infrastructure ready to be able to take advantage of these.

vCenter must be upgraded first, before adding any ESX/ESXi 4 hosts. ESX 3.5 hosts can be added to vCenter 4. However ESX 4 hosts cannot be added to vCenter 2.5.

 

1. Login to the VMware license portal to check/upgrade/buy your vSphere licenses.

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vSphere Client EMC Storage Viewer Plugin

The EMC Storage Viewer provides the user a view of the relationships between VMware virtual machines, disk files, datastores and underlying EMC storage devices including Symmetrix and CLARiiON.

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ESXi - Accessing the Unsupported Console

As some may know ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 has an unsupported console which can be accessed for VMware technical support etc.
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ESX4 - Disable CTRL+ALT+DEL Keyboard Combination Invokes Shutdown

 

The keyboard combination CTRL+ALT+DEL has been a long known shortcut on Linux systems to immediatley shutdown the server.

In most recent Linux distributions this has been disabled for obvious reasons.

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Installing ESX 4.0

 vCenter must be upgraded first, before adding any ESX/ESXi 4 hosts. ESX 3.5 hosts can be added to vCenter 4. However ESX 4 hosts cannot be added to vCenter 2.5.

 

1. Check the server hardware you are installing ESX Server 4 onto is supported and on the VMware HCL.

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