Sunday, November 16, 2014

VM Question? I'm here to help!


One of small irritating obstacles during my home virtual lab build out phase was VM question. It started to appear every single time i rebooted my machine after I've enabled VT-x to deploy nested 64bit ESXi instances. 

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And, by the way. I'm probably only person all around the world who really enjoy new VMware web client. I Think that it is actually quite cool. It takes some time to get used, but when you do you'll love it. And since its meant to be the future of VMware and there is no OSX native client - Why not?
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So how to answer that question if vCenter is the VM who asks? Through CLI, of course!

Step 1: Log in to ESX and list all virtual machines and their state:

Step 2: Remember your VM ID and check if there is a question to answer:

Step 3: Answer & verify:

By the way - VMware VM v.10 does not ask stupid questions :-)

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