VMware Workstation, ESXi
Hi,
a customer had the problem that a virtual machine is shown as invalid or orphaned. After removing from inventory (not from disk) he couldn’t register the vm again: “A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered”
This could have multiple causes:
Continue reading VMware vSphere: Cannot register a virtual machine in inventory: A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered
Hi,
with PowerCli it is simply possible to generate an direct Link to accessing a VM’s Console without clicking through the whole vSphere Tree.
The anatomy of the URL is
https://%vCenterFQDN%:9443/vsphere-client/vmrc/vmrc.jsp?vm=urn:vmomi:VirtualMachine:%MoRef%:%vCenterUUID%
Continue reading VMware: Generate an URL for a VM Console Session
Hi,
this post describes how to convert VMware vmdk files to Hyper-V’s vhdx format.
Continue reading Hyper-V: Convert a VMware Virtual Machine files to Hyper-V
Hi,
this post addresses the issue that, when Windows UAC is enabled, you could not execute scripts with elevated Administrator permissions by PowerCli’s Invoke-VMScript. In my opinion when I execute scripts on VMs in more then 80% of these cases I need elevated user rights.
Continue reading VMware: Execute scripts by Invoke-VMScript as Administrator
Hi,
sometimes you want to find which IP Address belongs to a virtual machine. This can be easily done by powercli, provided that the VMware Tools are installed in each VM.
Continue reading VMware: Find VMs by IP Address