Virtualization Review

ESXi and The Command Line

At a training class I attended, among the first comments from the instructor was that everything a virtualization administrator would ever want to do can be done through the VI Client. I quickly piped ...
Virtualization Review

Command-Line ESXi Update Notes

With vSphere 4.1, VMware removed the easy-to-use Windows Host Update Utility from the standard offering of ESXi. Things are made easy when VMware Update Manager is in use with vCenter, but the free ...
Ars Technica

VMWARE Question: How do I change a vm's memory setting from the command line?

I have the esxi command line tools installed and I have about 60 vm's that I need to modify the memory setting on. How do I do this from the command line using one of the esxi command line tools? I ...
Ars Technica

On using a Dell T110 server for an ESXi host

I have aquired two Dell T110 Servers. Each one of them was equipped with a single Intel® Xeon® X3440 2.53ghz processor and 16GB of 1333mhz RAM. I added 4x Western Digital WD1002FBYS 1TB ...