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VMware ESXi 5.5 – Hardware Health Status shows “Unknown”

VMware ESXi 5.5 – Hardware Health Status shows “Unknown”

Introduction If you ever find that the sensors on your ESXi server show an Unknown status. You may think a reboot is your only option to get it functioning again however not true. Solution If you SSH to the system

David Messenger 4th August 2017 ESXi 5.5, VMware No Comments Read more

Installing an Intel Xeon E3-1220 in Gen8 HP Microserver

Installing an Intel Xeon E3-1220 in Gen8 HP Microserver

Introduction So I thought I’d put this up for anyone thinking of buying one of these boxes just to give an honest account of my usage of this little server as both a professional network and security engineer and also

David Messenger 9th May 20164th January 2023 ESXi 5.5, HP, VMware 5 Comments Read more

ESXi – Converting Thick Provisioned Disk to Thin and Vice Versa

ESXi – Converting Thick Provisioned Disk to Thin and Vice Versa

Introduction If you need to do as per the title of this post. I am lazy so cannot be bothered to re-write a great post which already exists. Link http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000579.htm Happy days. Thanks Pete

David Messenger 16th November 2015 ESXi 5.5, VMware No Comments Read more

Install VMware Tools Ubuntu

Install VMware Tools Ubuntu

Introduction Installing Vmware tools on a linux box is a straightforward affair from the terminal. Installation Procedure The first step is obviously mount the ISO to install VMware tools. Just a right click on the guest and then guest, install/upgrade

David Messenger 23rd February 201517th November 2019 Linux, Ubuntu, VMware No Comments Read more

ESXi 5: Suppressing The Local/Remote Shell Warning

ESXi 5: Suppressing The Local/Remote Shell Warning

Introduction Does the shell warning annoy you like it did me. Well this is how to disable it! Here’s what it looks like on a standalone ESXi host which is what I have. Why have I got it enabled. Because

David Messenger 22nd February 201525th February 2015 ESXi 5.5, VMware No Comments Read more

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