As part of my series on installing VMware Tools on virtual appliances, I wanted to post an article on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance. The instructions for this topic are identical to the VMware Tools and vCO Appliance post. There is one caveat, that actually applies to all the recent…
In a recent post I wrote about my obsessive compulsive desire to update all my VMware Tools. In many cases virtual appliances come with a ‘3rd-party/independent’ version of VMware Tools which are not ‘Current’ according to the vSphere Client. If you want to replace the VMware Tools version on a…
I recently deployed the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance to an ESXi 5.1 host. While it worked fine, the VMware Tools Version Status displayed ‘3rd-party/independent’ instead of Current. While this is normal, I was on a kick to get all my VMware Tools Current. If you share the same…
I was recently working in a lab environment trying to register the vCenter Operations 5.6 virtual appliance into a vCenter Virtual Appliance environment. As a standard practice I like to issue CA signed certificates to everything — even in a lab environment — so I’ll know what to expect in…
I recently received several existing ESX hosts to support. As part of the transition I received the root password used by all of the hosts. I wanted to verify that the password I had was correct, so I threw together a quick script. You may notice below that the password…