MAC OSX – Managing ESXi Hosts
Nov17

MAC OSX – Managing ESXi Hosts

KB ID 0001054  Problem I have made the transition to a MAC laptop pretty easily, but theres one thing thats still a pain, VMware ESXi servers! I know these days vCenter has a nice shiny web management portal, but ESXi does not. When I’m working on the test bench I usually connect using the VI client from a virtual machine running inside VMware fusion. Which works, but the performance is not brilliant, things wont move where I...

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VMware vSphere Client – ‘This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above’
Nov17

VMware vSphere Client – ‘This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above’

KB ID 0001092  Problem Quite why each version of the vSphere client does not work with any other version of ESX/vCenter I’ve never really been able to work out. Being a mac owner, I have to run the software in VMware Fusion anyway, (which is also a pain). So when I tried to connect my my own firms vCenter this week from my Windows 8 fusion VM, I got this error message, after having to download yet another version of the vSphere...

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