It seems to be a question that often pops up on the VMTN forum, how can I move my ESX hosts to my freshly installed vCenter server? The answer is actually pretty simple: Just to be on the save side, set DRS to manual and disable HA on the “old” vCenter server / cluster Right click the ESX host and [...]

I just replied to a topic on the VMTN forums and thought it might be useful to write it down here as well. (I thought I already did, but a search didn’t turn up anything.) When a VM gets stuck during shutdown or isn’t responding anymore you can easily kill the VM. First option is the command line version of [...]