vSphere Client Download In the past it has been a massive pain to download the vSphere client. Although the web UI has become far less clunky and much more streamlined – we still present the vSphere Client download links for ALL client versions to date! A fair chunk of standard day-to-day administration can be comfortably …

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Workaround for the Cannot contact the specified host” error This article describes how to work around the “Cannot contact the specified host” error when connecting an ESXi host to a vCenter after upgrading it to 5.5 U3b. ” Cannot contact the specified host. The host may not be available on the network, a network configuration problem …

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How to Shrink vCenter Database This articles describes how to purge old data from your vCenter DB and shrink vCenter database files in order to free up space; running out of disk space brings a whole host of potential problems with complete outage in a worst case scenario. This example shows a Windows 2008 v5.5 …

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Once we have set the system and hardware clocks via the CLI, we can move on to set ESXi sytem time using NTP on the vSphere Client: This is very easily achieved by following these steps from the VMware knowledge base: Connect to the ESX/ESXi host using the vSphere Client. Select a host in the inventory. …

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Connect a USB Device to a VM in ESXi This article describes how to connect a USB device to a vm in ESXi – for example a storage device, camera, USB handset etc. etc. Whilst previously not possible, since ESXi 5.0 this is now reality, much to the relief of many, many people! 1. Add …

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