Today I'm going to show you how to use the VMWare OVF Tool to migrate your virtual machines to a new ESXi host. This is particularly pertinent when you've got a small implementation and are using the free version of VMWare and don't have access to vCenter to be able to clone the VMs to…
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VMWare ESXi 7 U1 Stop Time Sync with Host
We setup a new HP DL360 G10 server for a client. We installed VMWare ESXi 7 U1 and added 3 Windows servers and a couple of Linux machines. Everything went fine until we noticed that the time on all the VMs was wrong. This is especially annoying because 2 of the machines were RDP servers…
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VMWare ESXi 6.5 VM AutoStart Enable/Disable Config Through Web UI
Just a quick post today to outline how upgrade your VMWare Esxi 6.5 installation to have the ability to toggle AutoStart Enable/Disable settings. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out where the settings were until I eventually realised it was an omission by VMware that needs to be re-added manually. It's a…
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