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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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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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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