This is just a quick blog post to show you how to install VMware ESXi5 under VMware Workstation. Being able to do this makes a great learning environment as you can create and destroy as many virtual machines as you like. In my lab i have 2 permanent hosts running ESXi 5 but if i [...]
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Installing ESXi5 under VMware Workstation 8
Posted: 6th February 2012 by neil in ESXi 5.0, Virtualization0
Enable remote console connection to ESXi 5 host through the GUI
Posted: 5th November 2011 by neil in ESXi 5.0I recently installed 2 ESXi 5 servers into my lab to assist with my ESXi 5 certification update. In my home lab i do not have a spare monitor so each time i have to display the console i have to unplug the monitor from my main PC and plug it in which is a [...]
In this article i am going to go over the steps to install and configure PowerCLI to run on my virtual center server. This will enable me to interrogate all the virtual machines and VMware environment by using Powershell. 1) The first step is to download Powershell v2.0 from Microsoft. Note this is only applicable [...]