Dell PowerEdge R410, installed Dell-customized ESXi 4.0 from VMware site (build 181792), installed the offline bundle with OMSA agent, set UserVars.CIMEnabled, UserVars.CIMOENProvidersEnabled and ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

With vSphere 4.1, VMware removed the easy-to-use Windows Host Update Utility from the standard offering of ESXi. Things are made easy when VMware Update Manager is in use with vCenter, but the free ...

I have a Windows 2008 server which has just died. It hosted some low-usage IIS sites (some with supporting SQL Server databases), and a few media and file server applications (e.g Logitech Media ...