I can't get the tools to install without rebooting the VM either. I've tried jp1960's script and while it upgrades the VMware tools the VMs still reboot. If I log into the VM and run the setup command I can get it to install without rebooting, e.g.: setup /s /v"/...
When a driver of a different version is installed in the VMware OS, the driver may fail to be loaded after the OS is restarted. After the vmkload_mod hifc command is executed to manually load the FC driver, the command output shows that the driver parameters are ...
We have the same need to install VMware Tools automatically without a reboot. The reboot will be done during a security patch rollout. In this case we can combine tasks together. I followed this blog as other ones. The following command can be performed by PowerShell successfully...
Migrating Virtual Disks Between Hypervisors: If you want to move from VMware to another hypervisor provider such as Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Proxmox VE, you will need to extract the VMDK file of the VM to be migrated. Extracting Files from VMDK Without Booting the VM: In so...
AWS Backup supports centralized and automated data protection for on-premises VMware virtual machines (VMs) along with VMs in the VMware Cloud™ (VMC) on AWS. You can back up from your on premises and VMC virtual machines to AWS Backup. Then, you can restore from AWS Backup to either on...
This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a VMware virtual machine running Linux that is using logical volume manager (LVM). Firstly we will add a new disk to the virtual machine and then extend the original LVM over this additional space. Basically we will have two physical...
To reboot a DEP Mac without deleting any data: Run the following commands in Terminal: sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone sudo rm -rf /var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/ sudo rm /Library/Keychains/apsd.keychain sudo reboot Common DEP related workflows and issues: Renew the Apple Server token for ...
The Mounted field is set to false, the Type field is set to VMFS-unknown version, and that no Mount Point exists. Note: The unmounted state of the VMFS datastore persists across reboots. This is the default behavior. To unmount a datastore temporarily, do so by appending the --no-persis...
d) After the restore is completed, the ESXi host will automatically reboot. Additional Tips: It's always a good idea to regularly backup your ESXi configuration, especially before making significant changes. Ensure that the ESXi host is in maintenance mode before restoring the configuration. This ...
👉 Starting with ESXi 7.0 Update 3, if the boot device is a USB or SD card and there is no local persistent storage such as HDD, SSD or NVMe device, the VMware Tools partition will automatically be created on the RAM disk. 👉 If you assign the /scratch partition to a USB or SD...