New URL for this blog moved to carlosvargas.com
New year and new URL. I finally move this blog to http://carlosvargas.com so all the new updates will go in the new website.
How to move a VM to another host without vCenter vMotion
Sometimes it is important to know the manual steps of the automated task that vCenter executes. This will come handy in the event that vCenter server is down. Here is a list of steps that can help you move a VM from one host to another one without vCenter Power Off the VM Right Click…
Automated Creation of VMware PortGroups
I was working on creating a new lab environment for Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013. I decide to create a couple of new portgroups with VLANs on all the ESXi servers. the task was going to be repeated 30 times so I decided to spend a little time creating a script to automate the process of…
Configure Windows Server 2012 or Hyper-V 2012 VM on ESXi 5
This configuration is not a supported in production. This is a tutorial for IT Pros to build a Lab environment with Windows 2012 or Hyper-V Server 2012 Login to your VMware environment. Create a new VM Select to configure a custom VM Select the name for your Hyper-V server and the datacenter in the VMware…
ESXi 5 Update procedure without Update Manager
If you have to update an ESXi 5 host and you do not have update manager or will like to automate the process. Here are 6 steps that you can follow to apply the updates. Transfer update via vifs to datastore vifs –server x.x.x.x –put filename.zip “[datastore1]filename.zip” List the file copied vifs –server x.x.x.x –dir [datastore1]…
How to stop a VM from the CLI in vSphere 5
As with every version there is a new set of tools to perform administration in your vSphere ESXi hypervisor. The new tool is called esxcli. Here are some steps to try to get shutdown a VM from the command line Steps to stop a VM from the CLI in vSphere 5 Gather information on the…
vCenter Appliance and Sysprep tools
VMware vCenter Appliance provides the capability to manage your environment from a simple VM without the need to have another Windows server to manage the VMware vSphere Infrastructure. As this appliance is based on SUSE Linux; Where will you copy the Sysprep tools for your VM’s? The location is /etc/vmware/sysprep there you can copy the…
VMware support documentation and 3rd party tools list
For all my friends and co-workers that constantly ask can you send me the links for that documentation. I will start compiling a list of all the support documents and tools I currently use for VMware virtualization technologies. Documentation VMware ESXi 5 documentation VMware vSphere 4.1 documentation Videos VMware TechPubs video library VMware Hot Add features VMware…
vSphere Inventory Remove Script
Here is a quick script to remove vm’s from the vSphere Inventory.
vSphere Inventory Import Script
Someone ask me how to import VM’s from a list. Here is a simple script to import VM’s based on a list. The script uses a single datastore.
Carlos Vargas 