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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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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This article addresses the following error: “The requested media for interface 1.1 is invalid” when using the f5 virtual edition on ESXi. Once possible reason for this error is mentioned under “Known Issues” in the release notes for 11.x e.g. : http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-ve-11-4-0.print.html The entry reads as follows: ID 352856 “If an SCF is migrated between …

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This article details how to change the ESXi system time and HW clock on your ESXi hypervisor machine via the CLI. Ideally we want to use NTP to set the system time but if your clock is too far out from the actual time then this will fail and you may see something like this …

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This article describes how to clone a live production linux server to a VM on ESX infrastructure although it is the same process to clone to another physical machine. Prepare the Target Machine Prepare a new server on ESX debian 32 bit machine, same hdd size etc: In the past I’ve always used the DSL …

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