Category Archives: Virtualization

Creating and Reviewing Windows crash dumps in VMware virtual machines

Posted on April 16, 2012 by brian.wuchner

The other day I was assisting a co-worker who needed a memory dump of a Windows virtual machine. He was working with Microsoft support and the support engineer mentioned that the process for gathering this data was different since we … Continue reading →

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Disable SSL for VMware Converter 5 using powershell

Posted on April 9, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Starting with VMware Converter Standalone 5.0, the default action is to secure the P2V data with SSL. While this is nice if you are converting machines across an untrusted network or need the additional level of security, it can really … Continue reading →

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Why does the ‘Update Tools’ button not work from within VMware Tools?

Posted on March 30, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I recently upgraded an ESXi 4.1 Update 1 cluster to ESXi 5.0 Update 1 — but have not upgraded the tools yet. One of the Windows admins I work with mentioned that he noticed a development guest needed a tools … Continue reading →

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Use PowerCLI to mark disk as as SSD

Posted on March 12, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I’ve recently been working with a few new ESXi hosts. These systems have a pair of solid state disks that I planned to use for host cache. However, ESXi 5.0 did not detect these disks as an SSD type. I … Continue reading →

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How vCenter assigns MAC addresses

Posted on February 27, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I’ve recently posted several entries on MAC address conflicts within vCenter: Multiple vCenters and MAC address conflicts Virtual Machines with Duplicate MAC addresses If you look at the first post (and VMware KB 1024025) you’ll notice that vCenter uses a … Continue reading →

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