Posts Tagged ‘basics’

The Basics: Moving hosts from one vCenter server to the other

April 17th, 2009 6 Comments

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 [...]

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Posted in Server | Tags: basics, Howto, vcenter

The Basics: How to kill a VM that’s stuck during shutdown?

April 15th, 2009 6 Comments

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 [...]

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Posted in Server | Tags: basics, ESX, service console
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