My searches for a script to upgrade the VM Tools without rebooting were all more complicated than I wanted to implement. After hacking several scripts I found I was able to create a ‘simpler’ command to take care of my needs and should be easy to edit for anyone else. Get-View -ViewType “VirtualMachine” -Filter @{“Guest.GuestFamily”=”windowsGuest”; […]
After doing P2V conversions with VMware converter I always go through the pain of removing all the nonpresent devices from device manager. I have now found a script that does all this automatically. Thanks to Simon Price. Download the script.
This is a modified repost for my own documentation from 7ota This tutorial deals with setting up a machine for remote desktop access just like an RDP connection to a windows system but using VNC.
Increasing the size of disks got a lot easier with the release of Update 2 for ESX 3.5 and VirualCenter 2.5. You no longer have to login to the console and use the vmkfstools command.