November 7, 2014

Virtual Machine Cannot Start (Vmware) – ESX/ESXi – 5.0

VMware,

There will be situations where the VM on a host fails to start without showing any progress when the power state is reset. This can be caused by a hung process on the host. Solution: SSH into the host on which the VM is running and run the following commands:

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November 5, 2014

Increase VMware VM performance by placing the Swap file in an alternate location – ESX/ESXi 5.0

VMware,

n this post you will see how to Increase VMware VM performance by placing the Swap file. By default, a swap file is created when a virtual machine is powered ON under a ESXi host. Swap files normally are stored in the same location as in the VM’s configuration file, it could be a VMFS…

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