Virtualisation

Did some testing today with a Windows 2003 server running VMware Server and a Linux (Ubuntu) guest.  The Linux guest already had tape backup software installed (BackupEdge) and needed to be able to access the tape drive (400GB LTO) on the Windows host.  I knew this should work in theory but had never tried to do [...]

Despite the service console being removed in VMware ESXi an unsupported workaround can be used to enabled a limited CLI and SSH access to an ESXi host. The procedure is as follows: From a screen and keyboard connected to the ESXi host press ALT+F1 keys Type: unsupported Type in your root password From the command [...]