Hi,
if you plan to run an ESXi Host within an ESXi Host and enabling support for 64-bit for VMs some additional settings are requiered:
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VMware vSphere: Create a linked clone with Powercli
Hi,
linked clones have some advantages:
- New virtual machines are rapidly deployed. The initial task is only to reference to a snapshot of an existing virtual machine. No virtual disk file(s) will be copied at this time.
- They save disk space. Because only the space difference to the origin snapshot is allocated.
I found no option in the vSphere respective the Webclient to create one, but PowerCli provides this. Lets do it.
Connect to vCenter
Connect-VIServer vcenter.subdomain.domain.local
Define the virtual machine which is the origin of the linked clone, and the Snapshotname on which the linked clone based.
$sOriginVM="mastervm" $sOriginVMSnapshotName="mastervm_linkedclone_snap"
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VMware ESXi: Setting up NAT with a linux virtual machine
Hi,
other than the Workstation, VMware ESXi does not has the functionality to “NATting” virtual machines network traffic into a public network.
My approach to implement NAT is a virtual machine with a slimmed-down (Debian) Linux.
These virtual machine has two network interfaces. The first interface is connected to a vSwitch called “Public LAN” with access to the public LAN, the second interface is connected to a vSwitch which has no physical adapter attached to and is called “NAT Network”. On the NAT interface a DHCP server is assigning IP Addresses.
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VMware ESX, Workstation: Increase screen resolution on Windows Guests
Hi,
to set a higher graphic resolution in Windows guest operating system do the following steps:
Decide which resolution should be available, in this example 1680×1050 and calculate Video RAM size (default Video RAM for Workstation 16777216, for ESX 4194304):
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