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VMware - Notes
Blogposts/Articles
Virtual Geek - vSphere and 2TB LUNs – changes from VI3.x
riether.com - vcb proxy - forgot to disable automount and now the vmfs is fucked up
TechNet - Command-line Reference - Diskpart
TechDump.co.uk - Check for orphaned vmdk files in vCenter using PowerCLI
Notes
Set the NIC to be an e1000 adapter for a VM via the VMX config file
Add/change the following line, where ethernet0 is the first vNIC, ethernet1 the second, and so on:
ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000"
"VMware image customization is in progress..." at every boot
At every boot of a Windows VM it says “VMware image customization is in progress…”.
Solution: Edit the registry to remove sysprepDecrypter.exe from the BootExecute REG_MULTI_SZ under “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager”.
Source: Dustin Potts - VMware image customization is in progress … at every reboot
Allow SSH access with public/private key authentication
VMware - VMware vSphere Blog - Enabling Password Free SSH Access on ESXi 5.0
VMware Knowledge Base - Allowing SSH access to ESXi/ESX hosts with public/private key authentication (1002866)
Tested with ESXi 6.0: This also works for another account created on the ESXi host by using /etc/ssh/keys-<username>/authorized_keys.
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