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Updating VMware ESXi Certificate

This activity is far from straight forward. There’s lots of information about how to do this through vCenter but the information becomes very unclear when it comes to the free version of VMware ESXi. First, there is an import option from the web interface under “Manage” and “Security & Users”. Read more…

By Torry Crass, 3 years3 years ago
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VMware Mounting Shared Folder in Linux Guest

UPDATED: March 23rd, 2020 Anyone who’s used VMware at a desktop level for a while has likely run into the need to share a file from the guest operating system back to the host operating system. This post will cover options for Debian derivatives which include Ubuntu. Make sure you have Read more…

By Torry Crass, 6 years3 years ago
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How to Expand Swap on a Linux VM

I searched for a while to come up with a method for expanding swap in an online way thinking that it might now be possible given all kinds of disk and file system advances over the past few years.  It's been a little bit since I've had to do this Read more…

By Torry Crass, 9 years9 years ago
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CentOS 6 Error Device eth0 Not Present

In attempting to run a virtual appliance with VMWare I ran into a problem where the VA would not load the network.  It turns out that this is because of the developers not handling the configuration files to make everything virtual machine distributable.  So, if you see the error below, Read more…

By Torry Crass, 9 years9 years ago
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A Virtual Story – Virtualization Option Exploration

In this post, I'm not going to go into the pro's and con's of the various virtualization options that are currently out there as there are already plenty of side-by-side comparisons.  If you're looking for a technical comparison, this probably isn't the best resource as I'm going to provide an Read more…

By Torry Crass, 10 years10 years ago
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VMWare Migration Error: File size is larger than maximum size supported by datastore

What an error huh?  So one night some time ago (November 30th, 2010) I was in the process of doing some physical to virtual system migrations and ran into this odd error: "File *.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by the datastore." I validated that there was enough Read more…

By Torry Crass, 12 years ago
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