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Automatically upgrade VMWare Tools on multiple Virtual Machines

A new version of ESX often comes with a new version of VMWare Tools. In my case, I did a migration of ESX 3.5 to vSphere (4.0). A manual installation of VMWare Tools would be pretty time-wasting (50 virtual machines). Therefore, I’ve searched on Google, and found the following solution: Powershell!

Howto: Expand your C:\ drive in VMWARE ESX 3.5

Just as I did some days ago, you may face the problem that you’re running out of diskpace on your C:\ drive (system drive)  in VMWARE. Expanding the system drive is not as easy as expanding a non-system drive (like D:\, E:\ or whatever partitions you may have in your server :) )

“Remove Snapshot: Operation Timed Out.” in VMWare ESX 3.5

When you (try to) delete a snapshot from a virtual machine in VMWare ESX 3.5, the following error may occur:

“Remove Snapshot: Operation Timed Out.”

Determine VMWARE ESX version

If you’re trying to find and view the VMWARE ESX version, the easiest way is to export a Report Summary.

From your Infrastructure Client:

  1. Choose the Inventory View
  2. Right click your host, and click Report Summary
  3. Choose a location to save the file

Disable system beeps in VMWare Workstation

vmwarelogoAfter installing Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) on a Virtual Machine, a system beep kept annoying me. The beep occurred with every system event.
There are two possibilities: turn it off for one session, or turn it off for good.

To turn it off for only one session, do the following: