Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter
Jan17

Resizing (Shrinking) Drives With VMware Standalone Converter

KB ID 0000185 Problem Using: vSphere 6.7 and VMware Standalone Converter Version 6.2.0 I’m performing this procedure on vSphere 6.7, back ith the release of vSphere 5, This process changed, with vSphere 4 and VI3, you had to install VMware Converter on the vCenter Server then download and enable the plugin in your VI client software (like this). VMware now only has the “standalone converter”, so now you DONT install...

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VMware Workstation – Deploying Server 2012 and Windows 8 ‘Linked Clones’ from Templates
Nov17

VMware Workstation – Deploying Server 2012 and Windows 8 ‘Linked Clones’ from Templates

KB ID 0000953  Problem VMware Workstation, is a great test tool, if i need to take a look at some new software, or plan how I’m going to do a job, and I don’t have access to the ESX server, or test bench, it’s a great tool to have on my laptop. If you build machines form scratch, every time you need one it can take a while. To address that you can create a template and deploy machines from that. To make things even...

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Resizing Windows Volumes  / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX
Nov17

Resizing Windows Volumes / Drives in VMware vSphere / ESX

KB ID 0000381  Problem This article is primarily geared towards making your guest virtual machines hard drives LARGER, If you want to SHRINK or make the drive smaller then see the following article. Resizing Guest Hard Drives using the VMware Converter Solution Re sizing a Guests Hard Drive (Make it larger) 1. On the properties of the VM select the hard disk in question and locate its size. 2. Enter the new size and hit OK. Note:...

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